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Once a concrete pay structure is adopted as it inevitably will be, change will occur. It's not about if, it's when.

Yeah, right. But it needs to happen. University presidents must get together and force this upon the current commissioners. It's not about wishing, it's about the leaders of our universities and conferences having the foresight and wherewithal to actually be worth their salaries.

Definitely meaningless bowl. But to question the definition of meaningless in regards to bowl games, aren't they all sort of meaningless? There is no way we can pit ourselves against ourselves. We have to get the bottom feeding 35-40 "P5" programs on our side for this to change. They have to understand that they are merely a pog in the system so the bluebloods can exist. Once they fully understand that, though it may time time, they will lean to our side and that will cause an internal implosion that may cause action. We have to hang around for that and see how the cards fall. Once they fall and if our situation stays pat, then it's all whatever at that point. To add, college basketball, baseball, lax, golf, wrestling, water polo, soccer, volleyball, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. ALL have a path for ALL teams to maybe one day win a true national championship EXCEPT football. There is a fundamental problem to that that needs rectification.

Splitting up the sunbelt and CUSA to create an actual geographic footprint that makes sense for everyone involved.

Because I don't want to ever be put in the scenario of playing Akron for a "national" championship. There, hope that helps. Go FCS or hold out. We are spending too much money, way too much, for the above scenario to be our glass ceiling.

Exactly. Conform or kick rocks.

Yuuuup.

That's all great and dandy. But we are ALL FBS division 1 programs. WE did not set that up. The NCAA did. Therefore, we should ALL have the same real opportunity to compete for national championships. Eventually, if we don't concede, we will have the same opportunity to compete. 'G5' fans are clearly fed up with the antics of acting like real programs whether their administration treats it as a real program or not. Attendance for 'G5' football is cut and dry. The model, as it sits, is clearly not working. There are 2 choices... 1) Go full on demanding inclusion and set clear expectations to what needs to happen to the NCAA until there is a reasonable avenue for all 129 teams having a real path to a national championship, however hard that path may be OR 2) Cut the charades and all of the media made 'G5' programs needs to cut bait and go to the FCS. This teetering in between is a waste of time and not logical to continue to do. I, for one, will lose interest and will NEVER respect a national champion from some BS setup.

A G5 playoff would be disastrous on many levels, the money making fairy tale many thinking it would/could be being one of them.

He's a bag man conductor which gets him the reputation as a good recruiter. As I'm sure he knows, places like UTSA do not have bag men. Expect that recruiting magic of his to decline. Good hire, overall, for us.

This looks good. Call East/West a new conference and North/South a new conference. Nevertheless, something has to happen. It just has to. I truly don't think anyone is happy with this setup. The teams associated with CUSA are crumbling from whatever relevant perch they were on. It's pretty frustrating.

It's a very poor look on anyone associated with CUSA. Something, anything must be done to combat the problem. I am all in favor of splitting this conference up as soon as possible.

Norvell is very Fuente to me. And Fuente has been meh at Tech.

Well, this I can tell you...He was recruited by Kendall Briles and it's just been reported that Briles is getting back on the Lane train to Oxford. So, he has no idea who his coaches are going to be (maybe Norvell) or if the new staff will rescind the offer or not.

How in the holy hell can she say that with a birds view of our conference USA championship game all the while maintaining a straight face. She is textbook incompetence and the blowhards truly in charge are clearly happy with what she is doing, which is nothing.

Haha. Yuuuuup.

Lol. That lady is full of S.

UAB did not impress me in person. Nothing they do is overwhelming. Even their good D is just meh. They have greatly benefitted by playing a very poor OOC schedule while having the luxury of playing in possibly the weakest division in CFB. Say what you will about LK, but he's a good football coach that strategically tries to blatantly out coach his opposition in eccentric ways. SL should be watching the game, with pen and pad in hand.

As it will be. The shine of SL, due to my opinion of next years outcome, has turned to rust. My interest has diminished significantly due to what I think the near future is in store for us. And I can only imagine the fence sitting fans aren't even paying attention anymore.

You're defending mediocrity. My apologies...Don't let me get in the way.

Winning record. That doesn't matter. That's hog wash. If you have 7-5 and lose your bowl game to finish 7-6 with no conference championship, bowl trophy and clearly nowhere near the top 25 what good is it really? None. The answer is none.

None of Seth Littrell's doings. He should be at 2 of 4 given there has been 2 winning seasons. He was gift wrapped the HOD in 2016. He's a .500 coach with 2 losing seasons and 2 winning seasons. As it sits, and the evidence we CURRENTLY have, next season will be another losing season and this fan base will fully turn on SL as they should.