Southern Miss AD talks CUSA perception

[NT03]

http://southernmiss.rivals.com/barrier_noentry.asp?sid=1085&script=%2Fcontent%2Easp&cid=1621509

Good read

[Mean Green 93-98]

I like how we're the only school to get a derogatory adjective.

[untwillrise]

Stop sucking and it will stop

[jdennis82]

A win over the Bruins for Tulsa Friday night and deep NIT runs for USM and LaTech will obviously help.

I will say that I appreciate his thoughts and MUCH prefer the approach of self-evaluation to the whining we're see this time of year from other conferences (AAC). Mack Brown may disagree but I don't see how public complaint helps one's cause. Identify areas that need improvement and then get it done.

Edited March 19, 2014 by jdennis82

[outoftown]

The difference with the atlantic 10 sure is telling.I like his thoughts and his approach. Seems methodical and there seems no reason why the league and it's members should not follow up the suggestion of marketing its successes more agressively.

I wonder partially though, if it does have anything to do with whose games are on ESPN and whos are elsewhere.

[UNTexas]

Isn't Southern Miss rather lowly in football? Whatever, that hurts perception worse than basketball.

[emmitt01]

I like how we're the only school to get a derogatory adjective.

Benford'd

[Wag Tag]

He is dead on. If teams will stay in a conf. for a lengthy time this will help conf. identity. Now who is in C-USA and the American Conf. next year.

USM got ____ !

[CMJ]

Isn't Southern Miss rather lowly in football? Whatever, that hurts perception worse than basketball.

We're talking basketball perception.

[untjim1995]

USM doesn't really have any choice but to talk about CUSA in as positive a light as they can, since they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Its actually one of the sadder realities that they must deal with as time moves on. They have no TV market, they are the step-child of Mississippi, and the program that made them well-known (decades of solid upset-minded football) has fallen off the cliff just as conference realignment started changing things up for TV purposes. I remember vividly one USM poster on the CUSA board before we joined ssaying clearly that he didn't want CUSA to add Charlotte, ODU, UNT, or UTSA because he knew that once any of us got our programs moving upward, that USM would be left behind because they have no TV market to sell to other conferences. Its a tough gig in Hattiesburg, MS when your football team isn't good anymore.

[cogido]

Southern Miss will have its football program back soon. They will be a good draw for us at UNT,

I'm glad they are now in CUSA-West.

[VideoEagle]

Considering how our basketball team has performed over the last two years, "lowly" is that bad a term. And they used it while pointing out we had a good win over an SEC team.