THat post  would be shredded if they posted that over on Terd Nation. ....and on BA.our own penchant with leaving the MAC notwithstanding.. I do agree with them that C USA is currently a dead conference and an extreme financial burden to carry when you factor in transprotation for the minor sports balanced with increased TV revenue.

I am a bit taken aback by the view they have on the "xubsidies" OUr teams receive. Interesting view for sure. 65%?

ALl this info from a man with a BMW Isetta as an avatar....may be the original smart car but clinging to that as an identity is just a bit eccentric.

GOod find and thoguht provoking. Ding Dong ....C USA....is dead....put a fork in it.....and do not let them back in the MAC...as much as they talk about the dead weight in the MAC it was not like they came in and just dominated and had dynasties on many sports while they were members........egocentric steaming piles.

I think this poster may be right. I hope he is. I just don't see how CUSA can be economically viable with the kind of travel they require for in-conference games. And the luster of that conference has certainly been tarnished recently with the defections.

Ding Ding, we have a winner. The vast majority of MU fans have no desire to be in the Mac. The only reason we rejoined when we come back to 1-A was the Mac was our only option. A couple of the posters on the Grapevine knocking CUSA are not even MU grads, just guys in Huntington that are fans or season ticket holders. By the way, I am not trying to demean the Mac. Marshall didn't build a 38,000 plus stadium to be in the Mac.

The natives are getting restless with the current football coach. MU only has five seniors on the team, but it is Doc's third year. The loss to wvu really hurt. We finally get a schedule with them, but we are in a down cycle and they are in a up cycle. Their QB is the best one we will face all year by far. Hell, they put 70 points on Clemson last year.

MAC has a much better TV deal, that's got to be worth something.

Marshall wants to be bigger time in football and maybe hoops. I get that. But what you're seing in that there are a whole lotta schools ahead of them that don't want to be passed by Marshall. These conference situations are now fluid and you've got to be like Machievelli with a chest of gold to stay ahead and leapfrog. Like a Herd poster said, I don't like playing Michigan directional schools in November either, but we're doing okay in the MAC.

To me CUSA clearly looks like the worst conference in 1A and it isn't going to get any better when the programs that the Big East wanted leave and are replaced with some schools that just started football.  Bascially, the Big East looks a lot like CUSA from 10 years ago.  The other 4 1A leagues are going to be awful for a long time.

I don't know about Marshall but from Ohio's perspective leaving the MAC for CUSA, if ever offered would, IMO, be truely insane.  It might lead to short term more bowl revenue but the league is just as bad right now and scattered and unstable.  IMO, if they made the decision to do that they would have to be rock hard stupid.  If that offer ever did happen its just to be stopgap for an unstable league in flux.

New Mexico State and Idaho left the Sunbelt for the WAC.  Now the WAC doesn't exist and the Sunbelt won't take them back.