New Wrinkle in Realignment

[untjim1995]

The cinderella story that is TCU (and Utah) is a unique one. The landscape has changed. I don't think winning the MWC isn't any more significant than C-USA in the eyes of the playoff committee. And I'm sure our fans would be just as good at not showing up for games against CSU and SJSU as they have been for those against Rice and FAU.

Totally agree...

I used to think of how cool it would be if we played those MWC schools here, but in reality, it wouldn't move the needle here, in terms of attendance.

The teams that get our fanbase's interest are former SWC schools and service academies that are willing to come to Denton, apparently. Your normal SBCUSA team doesn't really make anyone run out to Apogee to watch us play a conference mate.

[greenminer]

I wonder if local perception of CUSA would be boosted if one of the more regional teams (like, not Marshall) made a serious national cinderella-like run.

What if Apogee held a CUSA matchup one day between a couple of top-15 programs? I think that could energize our fanbase.

Edited December 8, 2014 by greenminer

[Rudy]

I wonder if locale perception of CUSA would be boosted if one of the more regional teams (and not Marshall) made a serious national cinderella-like run.

What if Apogee held a CUSA matchup one day between a couple of top-15 programs? I think that could energize our fanbase.

Well yeah, but what teams? How much would we charge them to play in Apogee?

[greenminer]

Well yeah, but what teams? How much would we charge them to play in Apogee?

[Cerebus]

B12 won't add Texas teams, it's pretty open secret that UT doesn't want anyone in Texas to be added. What they want is what they get.

[NM Green]

This year the committee was begging a new shiny Boise to rise up but there were no takers and marshalls schedule killed them. They only talked up a 2 loss bronco squad when they could see there wasn't one out there to make it interesting. a sexy BYU or ucf or Houston or us would get some energizing pub. Ecu was on track for awhile too. They truly view is as one big group literally. Boise just had the experience skins and decent enough record to stomach for inclusion in the first go. Arizona vs Boise is going to be entertaining for sure.