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2014 Conference USA Football Divisions East Division (7) Florida Atlantic FIU Marshall Middle Tennessee Old Dominion UAB Western Kentucky West Division (6) Louisiana Tech North Texas Rice Southern Miss UTEP UTSA In 2015 Charlotte joins the East making it an 8-6 split. I would assume you would then move UAB to the West putting it at 7-7 and even at 14. Having recently driven thru Alabama and Mississippi, I tend to think they would be a better geographic fit in the East. Why not consider adding ULL (potentially a top 25 team this season) and an improving Texas State with good facilities to the West? That would give us two more drivable games and give us a Texas majority and strengthen Louisiana. That would get C-USA to 16 and allow just one crossover game to get to 8 C-USA games in a season. This season we have Southern Miss, and both FIU and FAU - in my scenario we would only have one cross over and add Lafayette and San Marcos to the schedule -- both easily drivable games. I realize La. Tech wouldn't like it and probably neither UTSA. Or would they? Both would benefit from an attendance/rivalry standpoint if we added ULL and Texas State. This season we play 8 C-USA games with 2 crossovers. Also it would help remove the complaining about who gets the lucky cross division straws every year. I know we have some La. Tech and UTSA fans on here and I would be interested in their thoughts as well. Another option would be Arkansas State. They aren't as close but certainly would bring a good football program into the mix. They don't seem happy in the Belt and would bring a loyal group of fans. Having the #2 program in Arkansas isn't a bad thing. For those that say no more Belt adds, I sense that perception is already a part of the new C-USA. Why not add the best programs and geographical teams now as opposed to later? I have no ill will towards the Belt, but the AAC formation forces our hand to a certain extent. If we leave the Belt alone, it allows them to remain closer to us in perception. The other thing adding a couple of Belt teams does is helps us to protect C-USA long term against future AAC poaching.