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who do you think has any interest in being an intra state rival with us?

check out some of the conference realignment talk regarding big east. cusa discussing replacing possible loss of smu and houston in west division to big east with unt and utsa, not la tech. look at the san antonio market and think of the roadrunners in 5 to 10 years. if we are a sleeping giant then so are they, and maybe a bigger one.

if i had a choice,i would go to cusa even if smu and houston were not there. its a 12 hour drive to albq., and we won't have a 100 fans at ull this saturday which is 1/2 the distance. big west, wac, mwc, were and are in wrong direction. just an old man's opinion.

thanks for putting this together! it is appreciated!

cusa and mwc want to form an alliance, not merger, where their respective conference champions would play each other in hopes of winner getting a bcs bowl bid. aso, we should hope that bosie rumors are false, as that could hurt chances of smu/uh being invited to big east.

big difference in big east basketball and the belt. it would be simular to when we were in the valley and lucky to win a game. we would be d.a.l. in beast east.

everything i read says big east wants the 3 service academies. looks like afc is good to go, navy on fence, and army not really interested. the other 2 high on list are temple and ucf. ecu is a fall back choice. if navy and army say no, then smu and houston come into play. if cusa loose both ecu and cfu,look for them to reload in east division, not west. this would bring fau and fiu in play, as everyone wants a presence in florida and cusa already has 4 texas schools. our best hope is that smu and houston move to big east, which would assure us cusa offer in order to keep a presence in dfw. everything should be settled by end of month, and a lot of movement depends upon what mizoo does. cusa stands to loose posibility 4 schools.

we just need one. SMU

i doubt any were homecoming. i am susprised at the positive attendance at our game during texas/ou weekend. i have been living under the impression for 50 years that it adversily affected our attendance and now stand corrected. thanks for the information!

utsa, with a start up program, has averaged 38,695 for 4 home games, total of 154,780 ytd. that is quite a bit more that the 110,000 or so we will probably average for 6 home games,or about 18,000+ per game. thats if we draw 20,000 for homecoming, and 15,000 for wk and mtsu. we are stuck with our conference games, and programs like tcu,baylor,and t.t. won't schedule us anymore,and smu comes and goes. no one in the belt travels well, so it is up to us to develope a winning program and try to develope some natural opponents that can bring fans. otherwise we are looking at the same 17,500 butts in the seat that we averaged at fouts. just an old mans opinion.

plus ulm.

i am susprised and dissapointed that unt has not reached out to utsa and tex st and included them on out futute football schedule. they are not going away! since my freahman year of 61' the only real natural rivals i can remember were uta, sfa, and la. monroe when we were all in the southland conference. while we may consider smu a rival, they don't think of us as theirs. i personally think we are missing an opportunity, especially with utsa, whose ytd average attendance can only make us green with envy.just an old man's opinion, which if you agree with you might share with rick v.

since my freshman year of 61' i have noticed that we draw poorly during tex/ou weekend regardless of who we play. its party time in dallas for the greeks, as well as other students. in addition, our game featured 2 teams with 1 win between them,iffy weather, and a team in our conference that is not a natural rival. we have a core of about 15,000 supporters that show up regardless of who we play or what our record is. the way to double that is to put a decent product on the field, which coach mac will do in 2 to 3 years. however, the lack of a natural rival remains a thorn in our side, and our lack of interest in scheduling utsa and tex st baffels me.

i may be wrong, have been before, but i see same problems in mt. west that we would have in wac or had in big west, plus new mexico is only football team we could beat at this point in time. we don't travel to la. or ark., and its a 12 hour deive to albuq.plus, when is last time you saw a football game on the mt.west network?

utep has no interest in mt.west from what their a.d. has said in elpaso interviews. they feel being in cusa gives them access to recruits in dfw and houston markets, plus alumni support for those living there. if you look at cusa, their conference ends in el paso, and mt. west begins in new mexico. together they cover u.s. coast to coast.makes since to form an "alliance" in football.if so, i can't see mt. west poaching an existing cusa member.

by the end of the month there probably won't be a big east to go to. depends on if mizzo gets into sec. if they do, then big 12 and acc will put big east out of the football business. however,mizzo shot themselves in the foot trying to move to big 10, and are in danger of doing the same again. they just can't keep mouth shut, with coments referring to fact that if they can't get into big 10, the sec would be a good fallback position. as a result, they ticked off a few sec presidents, and while majority want then in, they don't have necessary votes as of today.[mrsec.com is considered best site for reliable up to date information regarding sec]

i think you meant WAC, not MWC. i read some where that if cusa and mt. west were to form an alliance, that MWC would expand from 10 to 12 teams and create 2 divisions. they then would have championship game and the winner would play winner of cusa championship, with a BCS bowl invitation being the ultimate goal for winner of that game.

big east as football conference is dead. 1]mizoo to sec if conference allows tennessee and alabama to play annually 2] w.v.,cincy, and louisville to big 12.3] u.con and rut. to acc. 4]mac,cusa, mt.west status quo 5]wac and belt work something out

he would be better off transfering to a 1aa school. he just is not that good, although june jones could probably make him a lot better.

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i have a summer home in ruidoso, and keep up with nmsu and to some extent nm. they really don't have the financial resourses one might think. both universities had to make major budget cuts in athletics, and reason n.m.didn't fire head coach last year is they couldn't afford to buy him out. they negoiated his buy out down, and fired him as soon as they could. new mexico is a poor state, and the 2nd largest recipient of federal funds, only behind alaska.having said this, i love the state, and really enjoy albuquerque, so take what i said in stride.

if we loose to tulsa,getting to 6 wins means we have to win all 4 remaining home games[fau,la.monroe,wk,mtsu] which can be done,and 1 of 3 road games [ull, a.state, troy], which is tough. if we loose to la. monroe at home[they have a good team], then we are in trouble, as i don't think we can win 2 of 3 remaining road games. just an old mans opinion.

i think thats what the romans told the christians.

i think the belt is going to sit tight and see if big east picks up ecu and/or ucf. if so, then cusa would probably go after wk and/ or mtsu to keep marshall happy,or perhaps even one of our florida schools to maintain a presence in that state. the only schools that interest me are texas st. and utsa. since my freshman year of 61' the only intra state rival we have had was uta until they dropped football.i really would to see us develope one before i die.

of 9 schools in belt, 6 are in bottom 15. regardless of your confidence in accuracy of bleacher report, this doesn't say alot about the belt. 105, troy; 108, ulm; 110, unt;114,fau;115,wk; 117,mtsu.