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techdawg88 · April 10, 2012

dmrnevada: Confirmed: ECU Chancellor says #mwc #cusa merger will have a 4 pod system.

https://twitter.com/#!/dmrnevada/status/189825338879115264

UNTFan23 · April 10, 2012

dmrnevada: Confirmed: ECU Chancellor says #mwc #cusa merger will have a 4 pod system.

https://twitter.com/#!/dmrnevada/status/189825338879115264

And no link in the tweet.

techdawg88 · April 10, 2012

I'm guessing they are going with 20 teams or the full 24 teams

forevereagle · April 10, 2012

It's just some guy, not even a media type. Seems unreliable.

techdawg88 · April 10, 2012

It's just some guy, not even a media type. Seems unreliable.

I'm sorry, just trying to get any type of good news for UNT & LaTech

UNTFan23 · April 10, 2012

I'm guessing they are going with 20 teams or the full 24 teams

It's tough to decipher the conversation of tweets. It appears somehow the merger is still on yet they aren't going to dissolve the old conferences. :huh: This appears to be coming from someone associated with ECU.

Of course ECU still prefers Appy State and UNC-Charlotte to join their conference/pod. For a team that will do anything to get into the Big East, they don't seem to really care who they rub elbows with in terms of football. :rolleyes:

Edited April 10, 2012 by UNTFan23

Harry · April 10, 2012

Found this on CUSA board: http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=565233

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Post: #5RE: Tweet: ECU chancellor says CUSA/MWC will have 4 pod system

(Today 04:22 PM)Beagleagle23 Wrote:

dmrnevada: Confirmed: ECU Chancellor says #mwc #cusa merger will have a 4 pod system.

Confirmed: ECU Chancellor says #mwc #cusa merger will have a 4 pod system.
— dmrnevada (@dmrnevada)
April 10, 2012

Probably to help keep travel to a minimum, create more local rivalries, or in ECU's case, the best stab at that. There don't seem to be a lot of choices to help ECU and Marshall out even with the pod system.

If 20 teams, the best 5 team pod for UTEP would be Wyoming, CSU, AFA and UNM along with UTEP.

The western pod would have Hawaii, FSU, UNLV, Nevada and USU.

Central could be Tulsa, Rice, UNT, Tulane and USM.

That leaves the eastern pod of Marshall, ECU, UAB, FIU and maybe UNCC. I know the ECU folks don't seem to want UNCC but wouldn't they help achieve what your AD has been after?

techdawg88 · April 10, 2012

4 pods of 5 teams just looks weird

techdawg88 · April 10, 2012

It's tough to decipher the conversation of tweets. It appears somehow the merger is still on yet they aren't going to dissolve the old conferences. This appears to be coming from someone associated with ECU.

Of course ECU still prefers Appy State and UNC-Charlotte to join their conference/pod. For a team that will do anything to get into the Big East, they don't seem to really care who they rub elbows with in terms of football.

I think Charlotte will get in eventually but they don't even yet have a football team and I haven't seen any evidence that Appy St is even being considered

UNTFan23 · April 10, 2012

Looks like this whole thing came from some "State of the University" speech by an ECU official. Sounds like ECU's leadership has some preferences that they would like things to go down for the new conference scheduling alliance Galactic Empire.

Edited April 11, 2012 by UNTFan23

shaft · April 11, 2012

Can we change the title of this thread to "Merger Tweet"

GrayEagle · April 11, 2012

I'm still hoping that they'll come around to my thinking. I'm for the four pods. Now if they'll just leave UTEP in the east and finish with the following twenty teams then I'll be happy.

CUSA Pod #1

East Carolina

Marshall

UAB

Southern Miss

Tulane

CUSA Pod #2

Tulsa

UTEP

North Texas

Rice

Louisiana Tech

MWC Pod #3

Utah State

Wyoming

Colorado State

Air Force

New Mexico

MWC Pod #4

Hawaii

Fresno State

San Jose State

Nevada

UNLV

untjim1995 · April 11, 2012

I'm still hoping that they'll come around to my thinking. I'm for the four pods. Now if they'll just leave UTEP in the east and finish with the following twenty teams then I'll be happy.

CUSA Pod #1
East Carolina
Marshall
UAB
Southern Miss
Tulane

CUSA Pod #2
Tulsa
UTEP
North Texas
Rice
Louisiana Tech

MWC Pod #3
Utah State
Wyoming
Colorado State
Air Force
New Mexico

MWC Pod #4
Hawaii
Fresno State
San Jose State
Nevada
UNLV

This is the absolute best we could hope for during all of this alliance formation. This would be so great. This is what I pray happens. This is what I am afraid of, though, for UNT.

UNT, Arkansas State, Georgia State, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana-Lafayette, Troy, South Alabama, Middle Tennessee, Florida Atlantic, Western Kentucky, and anyone else that moves up from the WAC or FCS.