(03-05-2024 06:01 PM)inutech Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 05:48 PM)Garden_KC Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 05:41 PM)inutech Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 05:30 PM)Schadenfreude Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 03:44 PM)inutech Wrote:  Unlike the giant that the MAC just added?

UMass is a highly regarded flagship university in one of America's larger states. The MAC did very well here.

Absolute powerhouse. Who has managed to do as well? Like I said - feel free to smurf away on all of us peons. But don't leave out those wimps that only invited USC or UT-Austin.

Did you know UMass was really good at basketball in the 90s? I mean - as recently as that! And this season as well! You can't miss with a winning season per decade.

Blowing us all away with our little "smurf" additions. It's a wonder we're even allowed in the same division.

Your skin is blue.

I can tell.

Sure. Because I'm shivering out here in the cold after missing out of the UMass sweepstakes for my conference. How will we ever go on?

Besides, this skin tone looks good with my white hat.


Talk your trash. If anyone has earned it, it's gotta be the MAC.

Conf USA is a conference that almost went begging a few years ago. I think la Tech's greatest achievement is Terry Bradshaw. BTW, La Tech is an awesome school. They TIED for #304!!!

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA

#304
in
National Universities (tie)

(03-05-2024 04:07 PM)darkdragon99 Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 11:58 AM)No Bull Wrote:  Stony Brook is a sleeping giant. Better basketball than a lot of people realize. Good football till last couple of years. 25k students. Good academics. Stadium looks easily expandable. Long Island is not too far from UMass. Could grow a pretty large fanbase pretty quickly

They arent a sleeping giant. Thats your own personal fantasy. College sports in general are on the downswing not the upswing. You cant just grow a large fanbase out of nowhere. Thats not how it works anymore. You cant just look at population and thinks it corelates to culture when it doesnt. Long Island, NY doesnt give a flying bleep about college football.

totally agree. It's only a handful(s) of schools that sell out their huge stadiums and are on College Game Day.

(03-05-2024 04:07 PM)darkdragon99 Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 11:58 AM)No Bull Wrote:  Stony Brook is a sleeping giant. Better basketball than a lot of people realize. Good football till last couple of years. 25k students. Good academics. Stadium looks easily expandable. Long Island is not too far from UMass. Could grow a pretty large fanbase pretty quickly

They arent a sleeping giant. Thats your own personal fantasy. College sports in general are on the downswing not the upswing. You cant just grow a large fanbase out of nowhere. Thats not how it works anymore. You cant just look at population and thinks it corelates to culture when it doesnt. Long Island, NY doesnt give a flying bleep about college football.

Hey douchedragon, don’t downvote me simply for sharing my opinion.

(03-05-2024 04:55 PM)Garden_KC Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 03:44 PM)inutech Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 02:54 PM)Garden_KC Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 01:58 PM)GreenBison Wrote:  

(03-05-2024 01:52 PM)Turtle Power 98 Wrote:  I don't get the FCS thing that much. Most all Sun Belt was FBS teams ten years ago. Just because the teams come from FCS does not mean they stay that way. Jax State did pretty good in their first year for an FCS team. If they move to the MAC, WKU is stuck there for life. Are they happy with that?

Like you said, that was 10 years ago. Also most were upper tier FCS. SBC has 14 National Titles compared to CUSA with 2. So there's a whole different caliber of teams brought up. As for WKU, I just posed the question. Questions aren't answers, so not sure why you took offense to it.

CUSA is adding smurfs at this point IMO.

Unlike the giant that the MAC just added?

I mean, come on, that's an unfair standard. Where could any conference be expected to find a football program of that quality?

Smurfs are state schools that are less than directional.

Sam Houston St.
Jacksonville St.

Tarleton St? This is DII material stuff.

If Jacksonville State is “lesser than directional”, are “Bowling Green State” or “Kent State”? Since we’re too ignorant and stupid to look beyond anything but a university name… just out of curiosity.

Why is “Sam Houston State” a “smurf” in your mind while being rated higher than half of the MAC by USNR? Does this mean the MAC is full of smurfs?

Does anybody actually give a **** about the academics or the name of the opposing schools in their mid-major football conference? And, if so, should a fan of a conference home to schools named “Balls State” and “Akron” and “Miami” (but it’s in Ohio) be throwing stones?