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It appears that the SBC will put the final nail in CUSA's coffin this coming week with the addition's of ODU and Marshall in addition to So. Miss. This leaves CUSA with WK, MTSU, FIU, La. Tech, and UTEP. It must be humbling to La. Tech that after decades of snubbing ULM and ULL that CUSA is trying to talk McNeece State into moving up along with Sam Houston. They also are trying to lure Liberty, which if the Flames are smart will look at CUSA as one does a vampire, make the sigh of a cross, and drive a stake into its heart. Another problem, and CUSA has a boatload, is what to do with UTEP, who is about 900 miles from its closest conference member, La. Tech. They could either dump the Miners, dropping CUSA down to 4 existing members, or add NMSU, which gives UTEP a travel partner and a 6 th conference member but compounds the geography problem. I have also read that they are trying to add U. Conn for football only and U. Mass. Any way they turn its a mess. Probably what may happen is that UTEP goes independent in football and puts their Olympic sports in the WAC, taking the same route as NMSU. La. Tech could also go independent in football and affiliate their Olympic sports in a conference to be named later, while FIU should probably drop down. Hopefully W.K. and MTSU will find a home in the MAC, but that is a long shot . It's a shame , but as Clint Eastwood said said as he killed " Little Bill" in the movie THE UNFORGIVEN, " deserves got nothing to do with it."