Another FBS Conference?

[El Paso Eagle]

Guess this is one way to get enough 6 win teams for all the Bowls 🤦‍♂️

 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35216756/atlantic-sun-wac-teams-pairing-move-fbs-sources-say

 

[southsideguy]

Judy on the move.

[untbowler]

many of these schools will have to do serious expansion, I know UCA only has a 10k Stadium, if NCAA still requires 15k, they will have to spend millions they do not have currently along with facilities that are not up to quality in some of the minor sports.

[Green Lantern]

Gross

[NT80]

FBS is getting too watered down.  This is the exact reason P5's want to break away from this mess....

"The schools that have signed on to join the league are WAC football members Stephen F. Austin, Abilene Christian, Utah Tech, Southern Utah and Tarleton State and Atlantic Sun football members Austin Peay, Eastern Kentucky, Central Arkansas and North Alabama.  UT Rio Grande Valley, which recently announced it is starting a program, is also expected to join in 2025, in that program's first season, as the league's 10th member."

[Coffee and TV]

6 minutes ago, NT80 said:

FBS is getting too watered down.  This is the exact reason P5's want to break away from this mess....

Places like UNT are why they created P5s in the first place. We're just continuing the gatekeeping because we beat those WAC/Atlantic Sun schools to the punch. There will probably be some sort of break that separates what we call the first division though, a la Premiership. 

[NT80]

10 hours ago, Coffee and TV said:

Places like UNT are why they created P5s in the first place. We're just continuing the gatekeeping because we beat those WAC/Atlantic Sun schools to the punch. There will probably be some sort of break that separates what we call the first division though, a la Premiership. 

It will be the next version-name of divisions.  First it was College and University divisions.  Then Big school and Small school.  Then Division I, II, III.  Then I-A, I-AA.  Then FBS and FCS.  Then P5 and G5.  Then.....

Edited December 10, 2022 by NT80

[Danish43]

The ESPN article mentioned UT Rio Grande will be included but did not mention which sport they would participate in? I also thought that UT Pan American would be the more likely candidate because of their size, established baseball and BB program.  Are they UT Rio Grande planning to start a football team?

[El Paso Eagle]

3 minutes ago, Danish43 said:

The ESPN article mentioned UT Rio Grande will be included but did not mention which sport they would participate in? I also thought that UT Pan American would be the more likely candidate because of their size, established baseball and BB program.  Are they UT Rio Grande planning to start a football team?

Yes, they announced they are starting up a football program in 2024 I believe

 

https://footballscoop.com/news/a-university-of-texas-school-is-launching-college-football-to-rally-the-valley

Edited December 9, 2022 by El Paso Eagle

[Coffee and TV]

1 minute ago, Danish43 said:

The ESPN article mentioned UT Rio Grande will be included but did not mention which sport they would participate in? I also thought that UT Pan American would be the more likely candidate because of their size, established baseball and BB program.  Are they UT Rio Grande planning to start a football team?

UT Pan-American is UT Rio Grande now. They combined 3 places and folded it into one school with different campuses I think. 

[El Paso Eagle]

5 minutes ago, Coffee and TV said:

UT Pan-American is UT Rio Grande now. They combined 3 places and folded it into one school with different campuses I think. 

It's larger than I thought.

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – For the third straight year, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has recorded a first-day enrollment of more than 32,000 students. 

Among the 32,174 Vaqueros starting the new school year were 5,827 incoming freshmen, the most in school history.  

 

And if they have a fee then it was well supported 
UTRGV is here, moving forward in the launch of the program by securing facilities, committing to an all-new on-campus training center, because its students voted at more than 61% approval for adding football, among the other programs.

Edited December 9, 2022 by El Paso Eagle

[VideoEagle]

14 minutes ago, Danish43 said:

The ESPN article mentioned UT Rio Grande will be included but did not mention which sport they would participate in? I also thought that UT Pan American would be the more likely candidate because of their size, established baseball and BB program.  Are they UT Rio Grande planning to start a football team?

It became UTRGV a few years ago following a merger with what I know of Texas South Most. They plan on starting a football program as a result of the merger. UT Pan Am was kicked out of the Sun Belt back in the 90s.

[BBA1989]

Guess that means the Battle of the Piney Woods will be back when SFA moves up.  Carthel said SFA would no longer play Sam since they were moving to CUSA and SFA was still in FCS.  

[El Paso Eagle]

I think a lot of schools are believing that in 2025 or 2026 there is going to be a major regrouping in FBS football and are trying to get these before it does. For the WAC, at least what I have seen, they believe that they still have a valid FBS charter and based on NCAA bylaws they can retain it and make this move.

What I would like to see is the AAC and MWC form an alliance and put space between themselves and the other G5 schools.

[wardly]

Just what the world needed, another G5 football conference worse than CUSA.

[VideoEagle]

2 minutes ago, wardly said:

Just what the world needed, another G5 football conference worse than CUSA.

Are you sure it will be worse for very long?

[NorthTexan95]

1 hour ago, Coffee and TV said:

UT Pan-American is UT Rio Grande now. They combined 3 places and folded it into one school with different campuses I think. 

I knew some cute girls at UT Pan-American back in my college days.  

[rcade]

I'm glad to see more schools move up to FBS, especially the future UT Nacogdoches since I went there my first semester of college before my dad decided "I will pay for your college" was more of an aspirational statement than a binding verbal contract.

This does raise the urgency for UNT to become strong enough to be invited aboard the P5 ark. A biblical extinction event might be coming.

[El Paso Eagle]

8 minutes ago, rcade said:

UT Nacogdoches

Just wondering what you are calling it this?

 

[rcade]

16 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Just wondering what you are calling it this?

SFA voted on Nov. 29 to join the UT system, which was a dumbass move. They could've joined our system and become University of North Texas East Texas.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/stephen-f-austin-state-university-system-vote/

[El Paso Eagle]

1 minute ago, rcade said:

SFA voted on Nov. 29 to join the UT system, which was a dumbass move. They could've joined our system and become University of North Texas East Texas.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/stephen-f-austin-state-university-system-vote/

Ues, but as a condition of the move they will not change their name or their school colors.

[rcade]

16 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Ues, but as a condition of the move they will not change their name or their school colors.

I'll be surprised if they don't put UT in the name someday. The Archfiend of Austin will make it bend the knee.

[DeepGreen]

1 hour ago, rcade said:

I'll be surprised if they don't put UT in the name someday. The Archfiend of Austin will make it bend the knee.

My guess is that they will have the color “orange” added to their school colors.  Sad.

[El Paso Eagle]

8 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

My guess is that they will have the color “orange” added to their school colors.  Sad.

Regents Chair Karen Gantt said the university and all systems agreed to keep the school's name, mascot and colors intact. She said all applying systems, including UT, agreed. In an interview with KLTV/KTRE, UT System Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife said the SFA brand will be preserved.

[BBA1989]

59 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

My guess is that they will have the color “orange” added to their school colors.  Sad.

Every other UT system school has orange, right?  UTSA, UTEP, etc.