Poll: If the Big East calls

H-towngreen · January 2, 2013

What if the BE invites Rice, Tulsa, Southern Miss and UNT? Then would people bolt for the BE?

GrayEagle · January 2, 2013

What if the BE invites Rice, Tulsa, Southern Miss and UNT? Then would people bolt for the BE?

Yes, but that wasn't the question. The question was to replace Boise and for football only. The three that you mentioned hold the greatest interest for me among current CUSA members but they are not the only ones.

houstonmeangreen · January 2, 2013

Hell yes. If we get a chance to be in the same conference as smu and Houston, we have to jump all over it. As much as we all hate them, how can we not say yes to the oppurtunity to play them every year in conference play?
Plus the addition of a couple other regional rivals?
You guys are crazy to say no. That would be much better than Tulsa, rice, utsa.

until smu or houston gets a chance to bail....they are all looking for another place to go....and will at first chance.

keith · January 2, 2013

Hell yes. If we get a chance to be in the same conference as smu and Houston, we have to jump all over it. As much as we all hate them, how can we not say yes to the oppurtunity to play them every year in conference play?
Plus the addition of a couple other regional rivals?
You guys are crazy to say no. That would be much better than Tulsa, rice, utsa.

Agreed. There is still a pecking order and an invite would be perceived as a call up.

All About UNT · January 2, 2013

You better believe that we won't be playing UTEP and Tulsa for more than 1 yr. I could easily see the Big East as finishing off cannibalizing the CUSA of the old guard and just shifting them over to the Big East. If given that opportunity you take it. What is left of the CUSA is startups and the Sunbelt.

Eastwood Eagle · January 2, 2013

If SMU and UH are in yes.

If not no.

GrayEagle · January 3, 2013

Would you really want all of our other sports teams playing in the Southland?

cdizzle86 · January 3, 2013

I really don't see us getting an invite with SMU being involved. Even if we did, I would imagine us getting screwed somehow again by the university next door. Unless CUSA gets completely raided, meaning Tulsa and Southern Miss, then I think we are better off in CUSA. Until then we have taken a baby step forward and can't get too greedy.

TIgreen01 · January 3, 2013

Short of just SMU and UH leaving for the MWC, with the nBE imploding and rejoining CUSA, I think we're screwed either way. The highest probability is that we'll end up in a watered down CUSA that looks exactly like the old Sun Belt + at least 3 D1AA startups. To me, that's not better than just being in the old Sun Belt b/c we'll have an additional 2 Texas based schools to compete on equal footing with for players.

PlummMeanGreen · January 3, 2013

Short of just SMU and UH leaving for the MWC, with the nBE imploding and rejoining CUSA, I think we're screwed either way. The highest probability is that we'll end up in a watered down CUSA that looks exactly like the old Sun Belt + at least 3 D1AA startups. To me, that's not better than just being in the old Sun Belt b/c we'll have an additional 2 Texas based schools to compete on equal footing with for players.

Except for one very big deal, TIgreen01.....

.........Rice U still being in CUSA and our making football trips to Houston every other year--that is huge for our program.. We only had that one other time but very briefly and that when UH and UNT were both in the Missouri Valley Conference; but UH soon bailed so I'm not sure we ever made the trips to UH (and the Bayou City) over 2 times subsequently; that is as conference foes.

GMG!

Edited January 3, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

wardly · January 4, 2013

Not that logic always prevails, but on potential NT is the no brainer choice over SMU for the Dallas market. The problem is we never seem to reach the potential.

I think Darrell Royal said something to the effect that potential means you ain't done it yet.