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I don't think they will. They'll go to the Sun Belt if they go anywhere at all and they'll be grateful for it.

Why do we want to go to CUSA?? Because the teams are well-known and as a result it is perceived as a better conference. Diluting that down with teams like UTSA, UTA, FIU, ULL, UNC-Charlotte and other "hyphenated universities" will just turn C-USA into Sun Belt v.2.0. I hope that CUSA and MWC kill the WAC and carefully selects a couple of Sun Belt teams like UNT and MTSU to join. Louisiana Tech, Army, UNT, and MTSU to CUSA. Utah State, Idaho, New Mexico State, and San Jose State to MWC. We don't need a single FCS team.

(CNN) -- After years of resisting calls from fans, sports pundits and even President Barack Obama, key conference commissioners announced Thursday that they'd propose some variation of a college football playoff. The leaders of numerous interscholastic athletic conferences -- including the Big 12, Big Ten and Southeastern Conference -- and Notre Dame released a joint statement Thursday signaling its intentions following ongoing deliberations about postseason play in college football. In it, they stated that an eight-team and a 16-team playoff were not going to happen because doing so would "diminish the regular season and harm the bowls." That refers to the existing system, in which winning top-level teams traditionally get the chance to play in one postseason bowl game after they've finished their regular season. Yet the conference commissioners opened the door to a pared down playoff. "We will present to our conferences a very small number of four-team options, each of which could be carried out in a number of ways," the commissioners said.

Exactly. If we're going to WANT UTSA, TX State, Charlotte, etc. then we may as well stay in the Sun Belt.

NO FCS TEAMS!

Just come see me during the game, fellas...

I have no doubt that C-USA will make the "official" announcement... just like the process with nearly every other realignment that has been made the last two years.

Chat is open!

BREAKING: #UNT Board of Regents approve realignment from Sun Belt to Conference USA.

Open the door to a playoff and eventually everyone will have a fair shot.

I'm worried that the lack of helmet stickers will fail to motivate the football to play well.

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2012/04/quick-benford-presser-nuggets.html

Late Wednesday afternoon, Bowl Championship Series executive director Bill Hancock said the words that many college football fans have been waiting more than a decade to hear: "The BCS as we know it with the exact same policies will not continue." The statement was a small step for Hancock but a giant leap for a coalition that for years has openly resisted anything resembling a playoff. Hancock made the declaration at the end of a day of meetings of BCS leaders at a hotel in Hollywood, Fla., to negotiate possible new formats for when the BCS's current TV contract expires after the January 2014 bowl games. College football's 11 major-conference commissioners plus Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick will meet again Thursday and hope to release a shortlist of formats under consideration. Hancock clarified that his statement doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a major-college football playoff for the first time in the sport's history. But the status quo is "off the table," Hancock said. That could clear the way for a four-team playoff, the most-discussed option so far. Specifics—such as where games would be held, how teams would be selected and how the anticipated hundreds of millions in TV rights a new deal would bring—still must be worked out. "I would say there is an expectation that there will be significant change," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said. http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2012/04/25/bcs-college-football-playoff-head-calls-status-quo-dead/?mod=WSJBlog&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Fdailyfix%2Ffeed+%28WSJ.com%3A+The+Daily+Fix%29

This is happening, people!!!

Let's be honest. No one here really spends much time worrying about losing to Texas State.

Larry Brown on why he chose to go to SMU: "Well, I wanted to coach... badly."

No, it would be a disaster and would set the conference back several years. Expansion by bringing up FCS programs is going to permanently place the SBC in the armpit of college athletics. If Benson were smart (and every indication suggests otherwise) he would be looking to bring what remains of the WAC (sans UTA and UTSA) into the Sun Belt, eliminating competition and weakening the position of the Alliance to expand.

Kudos to the legislature for standing firm. I am opposed to taxpayer-funded stadiums for professional sports teams. It used to be the owner that put the pressure on the taxpayers, now it's the league.

KRAM1, thanks again for putting on this event. I know that it is not said often enough that you do wonderful things for this university. Thank you.

But the two pro teams he was referring to may have bee USC and UCLA.

"Larry Brown may not stay at SMU for more than a few years, if that, but as long as he is in Dallas the Ponies have the best men's basketball program in this region"

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell didn't say the Minnesota Vikings will move to Los Angeles if Minnesota lawmakers don't pass a financing package this year to build the team a new stadium. He didn't say they wouldn't move, either, and that appears to have turned up the urgency to bring an end to this long-running saga. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7836485/roger-goodell-minnesota-gov-mark-dayton-leaders-act-year-stadium

Damn.

10 days until the NBA draft deadline.

The SPCA's determination to find whoever set the puppy on fire has led the group to offer a $25,000 bounty for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the dog's abusers, up from its original $5,000. The reward money includes $10,000 from an anonymous donor and $5,000 from the Murrell Foundation. Police have identified suspects as part of an ongoing investigation, but will not release names or additional details until arrests have been made, a Dallas Police Department spokesperson told Unfair Park. Officials have reason to believe that someone videotaped and/or photographed while people burned the dog. The release alerting people to the increased reward money specifically asks that individuals who recorded the crime step forward. Someone who passed up $5,000, logic dictates, might find walking away from $25,000, and a conviction would be a hell of a lot more likely with objective proof. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 214-373-8477. http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/04/justice_for_justice_the_burned.php