Tweet from Adam Sparks MTSU beat writer

I would love for MTSU to also be added, but I hope that the final spot would come from someplace else besides LT and UNCC. ULL or ASU or WKU would be great.

How long has that rumor been floating around now?

SUBSTANTIATE that dude!

Just so we're clear, Conference USA 2013 will be:

UAB

Southern Miss

Tulane

East Carolina

Marshall

Rice

UTEP

Tulsa

POSSIBLE ADDITIONS

UNT

FIU

MTSU

La Tech

(Charlotte)

We can live with that. Anyone uncomfortable with that set-up?

Just so we're clear, Conference USA 2013 will be:

UAB

Southern Miss

Tulane

East Carolina

Marshall

Rice

UTEP

Tulsa

POSSIBLE ADDITIONS

UNT

FIU

MTSU

La Tech

(Charlotte)

We can live with that. Anyone uncomfortable with that set-up?

I'm uncomfortable with the fact that UNT is still a 'Possible Addition' and not in the 'For Sure' Category

I'm a Vito supporter....but Vito, where the hell are you on this stuff dude?!?!

I'm a Vito supporter....but Vito, where the hell are you on this stuff dude?!?!

He has been busy writting a new book titled, "Todd Dodge: A How-To Guide to Destroying a College Football Program".

I'm uncomfortable with the fact that UNT is still a 'Possible Addition' and not in the 'For Sure' Category

You are going to get invited. I'm nervous about how Tech's visit is going

I'm a Vito supporter....but Vito, where the hell are you on this stuff dude?!?!

I am honestly not sure of what everyone wants him to do.... do you want him to write an article about one man's rumor mill who is another beat writer for a Sunbelt conference school? Every day I see "Vito where are you" on this board..... just because rumors come out. The same rumors we have been hearing for 2 months. UNT and FIU are gone.... others may join.

All this foreplay is giving me the blues.

He has been busy writting a new book titled, "Todd Dodge: A How-To Guide to Destroying a College Football Program".

I thought he was working on the graphic novel, "Trust in the Johns"?

All this foreplay is giving me the blues.

balls?

Adam Sparks ‏ @AdamSparks

Latest RUMOR I'm hearing: North Texas & FIU will be added to CUSA. Two additional spots up for grabs between #MTSU, La Tech and Charlotte

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if any of that last part is true I would think it would go to Tech & Charlotte

I am honestly not sure of what everyone wants him to do.... do you want him to write an article about one man's rumor mill who is another beat writer for a Sunbelt conference school? Every day I see "Vito where are you" on this board..... just because rumors come out. The same rumors we have been hearing for 2 months. UNT and FIU are gone.... others may join.

I am a fan of Vito's, he really does not write alot of rumor, he ussually does not write something without a concrete source, plus he covers all of the spring practices, and majors sports games for us and we should be glad he does because nobody else is.

I'm a Vito supporter....but Vito, where the hell are you on this stuff dude?!?!

Oh yeah, it's not like he's busy right now tracking down who the new women's basketball coach might be or anything like that...

I give Vito a lot of slack, but he has to either let something slip or at least have it leak by him through another channel about this. His fan base he covers is going to turn on him completely if he just stops addressing this issue.

Will he apologize too all his fans out there?

Not to be try and throw dirt on any school, but don't you think it is odd that UNT and FIU were visited a while back. It is almost like this last round with UTSA and now LT are like they are saying convince me now why you are a better choice than the 4 we have already decided on. Seems that it can be argued that the decisions have been already made an in the sense of due diligence they are visiting the other choices now.

FWIW -

The AD's and President's were given a list of dates the visits would be made by BB & CT and were allowed to chose the date that worked best for them - don't read anything into who was visited on what date, the date was set by the school, not the suitor....

Reporting something as the " latest RUMOR I'm hearing" is weak. The latest rumor I'm hearing is that Adam Sparks should do his job and make some calls to see if the rumor is true.

Reporting something as the " latest RUMOR I'm hearing" is weak. The latest rumor I'm hearing is that Adam Sparks should do his job and make some calls to see if the rumor is true.

It's Twitter. Not the Wall Street Journal. He's doing his job to write a damn column, and throwing out what he's currently working (ie. the lead he's following) on twitter.

I am a fan of Vito's, he really does not write alot of rumor, he ussually does not write something without a concrete source, plus he covers all of the spring practices, and majors sports games for us and we should be glad he does because nobody else is.

This.

Ultimately, I'd like to see MTSU and La Tech. I'd rather steer clear of any FCS schools, if at all possible.

Ultimately, I'd like to see MTSU and La Tech. I'd rather steer clear of any FCS schools, if at all possible.

IA, but for some reason ECU is dead set on Charlotte. Now for many of us that doesn't make sense bringing up another team within your own state that's just going to be recruiting against you, but that's ECU for you

Will he apologize too all his fans out there?

Also whom does he need also apologize also?

It's Twitter. Not the Wall Street Journal. He's doing his job to write a damn column, and throwing out what he's currently working (ie. the lead he's following) on twitter.

Unless the employer specifies that the tweets be an extension of his column.

It sounds like that is not the case, though.

He has been busy writting a new book titled, "Todd Dodge: A How-To Guide to Destroying a College Football Program".

Pretty sure that book wrote itself.

Unless the employer specifies that the tweets be an extension of his column.

It sounds like that is not the case, though.

News orgs have put a lot of time into creating a Facebook and twitter followers. I know at the news org I used to toil for, we had meetings about the issue every half hour or so.