Mean Green Matt

No one has given a logical explanation as to why the SEC would do that...

We only have ourselves to blame. Shouldn't have come out flat after freakin bye weeks against two mediocre teams. Beat either Tulane or UTSA and we are in it.

I said that if the game was at Marshall we would have lost big. I said we'd win at home. Our hosting would not have been guaranteed, it seems we would have but who knows.

SMU paid his way into that.

I think we would have won in front of a small crowd in Denton. We would have lost big at Marshall.

Lee Jackson?

Isn't that irrelevant? UCF has the tiebreaker over Louisville. Even if UCF loses they still win the AAC and get the last auto bid.

That's generous.

So exciting...

Yeah, I'm sure the SEC is just terrified of whoever wins this game.

The keep showing the same section at one end of the stadium. Lol. If we had rices weather we'd have a crowd similar to the UTSA game if we were hosting. Mid 20s and ice means our crowd would have been pretty bad though even for a championship game.

Affirmative.

16 teams is way too many.

Not too beneficial if it damages the CUSA brand, right? The CUSA brand has been through enough. Let's just stay put for a bit.

Derek's stats are better than his perceived performance. Right or wrong that just happens sometimes.

I agree with you about the full playoff with all conference champions. For this year, I think the champion of the SEC should be in the game, although under the current system that won't happen. I'm talking strictly from a football perspective. Under the current system a strong conference can beat each other up and eliminate itself from the title game...a true playoff is the only way to avoid this.

I don't disagree with that, but until that happens we need as much distance as possible from the Sun Belt. CUSA isn't falling apart enough to move toward that yet. I don't know much about James Madison, but the people complaining about the addition of ODU (which has decreased some) should realize they have at least 2-3 times as many season ticket holders as we do. For me, Texas State would be the first team I pulled out of the Sun Belt...you know, if the sky is falling and I had to pick one. The Bahama bowl is about as useless as the Hawaii bowl.

To be fair, only 12 of those count toward this season...

Anybody else think it's ridiculous the champions of the SEC won't get to play for a national championship. They are hands down the best conference and beat each other up week in and week out.

Maybe so, but they weren't. There's nothing in the Sun Belt right now that can help CUSA. We already have 14 teams for goodness sake.

NIU in a bit of a pickle. This would be some comeback. Bowling Green may be a bit too good at this point though.

We certainly did bring some of the perception with the Florida schools and MTSU...the only consolation with regard to MTSU is that they were the best overall program in the belt AND within a major metropolitan area. FIU and FAU were mediocre recent start ups in a metro area that cares less about their existence than DFW does about us. NT needs to minimize any connection we ever had to the Sun Belt and win football games. Let the rest of the teams in the SBC languish,

So exciting...

The perception is exactly what we are trying to get away from...

Yeah, because rejoining the Sun Belch is exactly what we need.