Is Weaker "stronger"/Stronger "weaker"? Ask N. Illinoi

PlummMeanGreen · December 5, 2012

From CUSAbbs board: A WeatherfordMeanGreen post directed at the usual ones in CUSA heading Big East who think all the new CUSA additions seem to have cooties:

Some of you can just keep on re-arranging your (I still choose to use) "non AQ school's" deck chairs & conference scenarios till the cows come home but fact remains you are still a non AQ school in a non AQ conference--just like the kind of conference the rest of us still reside.

A Weaker Non AQ Conference Champion ='s BCS Bowl Buster? Are some of you creating conferences that will keep your school from ever having that role; that is, as a BCS Bowl Buster? Sure, the future new bowl arrangement will choose one out of the non AQ conferences group but if you play in a weaker conference (this year the MAC) and maybe even pull off a Top 25 win and then.......go undefeated won't that school get the nod most years or lawyers and courts get ready?

Seems Northern Illinois pulled it off this season, now doesn't it to all of you, uh.................. Former Big Time Non AQ Schools Who Think Being In Bed With Each Other (again) Will Help Your School Regain That Old Big Time Magic?

And ask SMU and Tulane what the old CUSA consortium of schools (that is, CUSA before all the new schools with apparent cooties were all added last Spring) but ask those 2 schools what the CUSA of the last 15 years did for their home attendance numbers (even during winning seasons) and for what its worth, that is basically the same group of schools that will make up the new Big East. Hint: There will be no changes in the turnstile numbers for most of these non AQ schools no matter what kind of new wrapper they put on their product or how many "former" Big Time Schools are in one conference together---all over again.

Bottom line in all this are the Big East schools or any combination of non AQ schools who form a new conference (not likely) are just as stuck in the mud as the rest of us and only TCU has been able to dig themselves out of all this muck and mire and only that because the Big 12 came a-callin'.

A Suggestion: Bloom where planted because that is what Northern Illinois did in the MAC and now they are Orange Bowl bound versus the Florida State Seminoles.

GMG!

Edited December 5, 2012 by PlummMeanGreen