Phil Steele blew this season

[Eagleisland]

Phil Steele is usually the best pre-season prognosticator and is right more often than wrong, but he was really off on this year's CUSA. East Predictions; 1.Western Kentucky; 2. Marshall; 3. MTSU; 4. ODU; 5.FAU; 6. FIU; and 7. Charlotte.   West Predictions: 1. LTU; 2. UTSA; 3. USM; 4. Rice; 5. North Texas; 6. UTEP and 7. UAB.

I guess that we are a difficult conference to predict.

[Travis]

Would you have predicted the way it turned out?

[southsideguy]

i would not have put rice in front of us.

[greeneagle1]

LA Tech lost a lot of skill players from last year. Of course they were not going to win the west. So Miss lost Nick Mullens this year. UTSA SHOULD have been better so I can see how everyone predicted them to win the West. My guess was UNT would finish 2nd behind them and only because they have had our number until this year (And 2015 I guess). I expected Rice and UTEP to be garbage. I was glad we didnt have to play the old 3 headed monster of WKU, Marshall, and MTSU again this year and figured UAB and FAU would be a cakewalk with ODU being serious competition. I was about half way there to where we ended up. The east completely flopped with the exception of Charlotte. 

[GrandGreen]

The CUSA pre-season poll was no better.

Pre Season Poll (#)

Current Standings

West:

1.  NT (4)

2.  USB (7)

3.  USM (3)

4/5.  UTSA (2)

         La Tech (1)

6.  Rice (5)

7.  UTEP (6)

East:

1.  FAU  (5)

2.  FIU (6)

3/4.  Marshall (4)

          WKU (1)

5.  MTSU (2)

6. ODU (3)

7.  Charlotte (7)

Shows how bad most pre-season rankings are and sports writers are not that good at predictions.