Woe is us

[TechBulldog11]

Sun Belt just bagged three P5 wins in one day...We need to collectively pick up the pace or we will soon be known as the worst conference in America.

Outside of UNT, La Tech, UAB, Marshall and sometimes WKU, the rest of the conference is more or less god awful.

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

2 minutes ago, TechBulldog11 said:

Sun Belt just bagged three P5 wins in one day...We need to collectively pick up the pace or we will soon be known as the worst conference in America.

Outside of UNT, La Tech, UAB, Marshall and sometimes WKU, the rest of the conference is more or less god awful.

We are already the worst, but I don't think anyone thought the SBC would be better than the AAC

[meaniegreenie]

SBC new member of the P7

[UNT 90 Grad]

6 minutes ago, TechBulldog11 said:

Sun Belt just bagged three P5 wins in one day...We need to collectively pick up the pace or we will soon be known as the worst conference in America.

Outside of UNT, La Tech, UAB, Marshall and sometimes WKU, the rest of the conference is more or less god awful.

CUSA - West is already considered the worst in the FBS by many, I hate to say. 
https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/

[TechBulldog11]

5 minutes ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

We are already the worst, but I don't think anyone thought the SBC would be better than the AAC

At this point it looks like they are better than the Big 12

[untjim1995]

7 minutes ago, TechBulldog11 said:

Sun Belt just bagged three P5 wins in one day...We need to collectively pick up the pace or we will soon be known as the worst conference in America.

Outside of UNT, La Tech, UAB, Marshall and sometimes WKU, the rest of the conference is more or less god awful.

Soon??

We’ve been the worst for awhile now, especially since Appy State starting winning big and getting ranked as a FBS team.

 

[Gibbz]

The MAC was slightly worse than us last year. We were already worse than the Belt.

[NT91]

Can we go back to the belt?

[NM Green]

Can we dump ODU and Judy and bring in Appy! Utsa might make some noise with their style of play and they do go to Provo next month. 
GMG

[NTSU52]

1 hour ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

CUSA - West is already considered the worst in the FBS by many, I hate to say. 
https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/

That's alot of numbers

[UNTLifer]

1 hour ago, untjim1995 said:

Soon??

We’ve been the worst for awhile now, especially since Appy State starting winning big and getting ranked as a FBS team.

 

[greenminer]

1 hour ago, NT91 said:

Can we go back to the belt?

Absolutely not.  The branding potential is so much better in CUSA.  This is about our problems at commissioner.  This is about Judy.

Not sure how firing/hiring works at her position.  Is she feeling pressure? Is she on a hot seat?

[RiseUNT]

Until we are ranked, beat a ranked team, or win conference can we please stop talking about how other teams drag our conference down?

[cogido]

Say what you want about how bad CUSA is and how things suck, BUT if UNT ever wants respect anywhere it needs to WIN CONSISTENTLY.  Having two good seasons under a new head coach , Littrell , and then flopping back to a 4 and 8 season just repeats an age old UNT dilemma.  If we don’t win it doesn’t matter what conference we’re in.   (Boy what an old repeated NT rant,  see you at Appogee)

[Rudy]

#Judy'd

[Salsa_Verde]

4 hours ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

We are already the worst, but I don't think anyone thought the SBC would be better than the AAC

For one week at least. Somehow Georgia Southern almost lost to Campbell 😂

[Salsa_Verde]

3 hours ago, NM Green said:

Can we dump ODU and Judy and bring in Appy! Utsa might make some noise with their style of play and they do go to Provo next month. 
GMG

I would say yes but then I remember they beat our a$$ last year. 

[wardly]

8 hours ago, NM Green said:

Can we dump ODU and Judy and bring in Appy! Utsa might make some noise with their style of play and they do go to Provo next month. 
GMG

I know why we would want to dump ODU. I just don't know why App State would want to join CUSA.

[NT91]

Yes Appalachian would be a upgrade over ODU.

I would like to play the Cajuns every year. Dump Rice and add U of L

Edited September 13, 2020 by NT91

[southsideguy]

Respect has to be earned,  we need to win a lot and not lose to teams we should not lose to.  We need to beat some good teams and then we can worry about everyone else.   Also when we go to a bowl game we need to start winning them.  Winning cures everything.  We can start this week by beating SMU.

[Arkstfan]

9 hours ago, cogido said:

Say what you want about how bad CUSA is and how things suck, BUT if UNT ever wants respect anywhere it needs to WIN CONSISTENTLY.  Having two good seasons under a new head coach , Littrell , and then flopping back to a 4 and 8 season just repeats an age old UNT dilemma.  If we don’t win it doesn’t matter what conference we’re in.   (Boy what an old repeated NT rant,  see you at Appogee)

It's not about patches on a jersey and never has been. Conference can negotiate some TV exposure and bowl contracts but it all comes down to what you do about it. All the benefits of Big XII membership and Kansas football is still Kansas football, the good years are an aberration. SEC membership means Vandy football is still Vandy football. Last year Vandy lost to a terrible UNLV team that fired their coach for being so bad (who'd have thought hiring a coach straight from high school was a bad idea?).

Nebraska cashes larger checks in B1G but they are on the same slide to mediocrity that started back in the Big XII. Having most favored status in Big XII hasn't changed the reality that the University of Texas is a program w/o clear and distinct leadership, they are governed by a Politburo of politicians and donors who can't agree on anything beyond the need to spend more. Always comes down to the individual school.

[Harry]

2 hours ago, NT91 said:

Dump Rice

Disagree 100% - I like the academic reputation Rice and also the opportunity to play  in Houston every other year.   I have been to Lafayette and it is nice little town (great seafood).  I would be fine with adding them but I think our friends in Ruston may have had an issue with it in the past.  I know UL wanted to get into the C-USA at one time.

[RiseUNT]

25 minutes ago, Harry said:

Disagree 100% - I like the academic reputation Rice and also the opportunity to play  in Houston every other year.   I have been to Lafayette and it is nice little town (great seafood).  I would be fine with adding them but I think our friends in Ruston may have had an issue with it in the past.  I know UL wanted to get into the C-USA at one time.

Exactly (since I can’t upvote)

[VideoEagle]

First of all, can we all agree this year is going is just going to be crazy. There will be crazy winners, losers and conference champions.

As for ranking conferences, all of the G5 conferences are close enough that the variances from year to year mean there is not going to be a consistent ranking of the conferences. Before the last round of realignment, there it was much tougher for a conference wide improvement. After the last realignment, everyone was weaker but the strongest G5 lost the most. Membership changes have made the MAC, SBC, CUSA, MWC and AAC all close enough in the middle and bottom that a stand out year by a mid-level team elevates the whole conference. 

[MeanMag]

We didn't leave the SBC because of the quality of Football. We left the SBC because of meaningful schools - to US.

Tulsa, Tulane, UTEP, LaTech, Rice, Marshall, ECU.

I would still rather play (and beat) LaTech, UAB, UTEP, Rice than U of L, Ark St., and La Monroe, USA - just the way it is for me.

It may change, but for now - I'm okay where we are. But to the original topic: I hope our conference starts winning more out of conference games, regardless of who they play.