If you haven't kept up with this whirlwind let me try to get you there.
ODU, Marshall, and Southern Miss all announced they would leave the conference early and not be involved in 2022.
Story on that here
C-USA tweets today a full schedule with those teams included and releases a statement that it will exhaust all legal avenues to have the games.
pic.twitter.com/rVR3xgKTbT— Conference USA (@ConferenceUSA) February 15, 2022
This one is likely going to get uglier before it gets better
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Spicy.
So it does not appear they are on the Sunbelt schedule for 2022. Will be interesting to see what happens.
https://fbschedules.com/sun-belt-football-schedule/
Sun Belt isn't putting out their full schedule for another couple weeks, and that's when things will get really spicy.
They always do March 1, so this isn't atypical.
It's atypical that the Sunbelt went from being a bottom of the rung league, to having the upper hand in all this realignment within a decade. Transfer portal, dilution of recruiting talent, plus the football success of App St, Coastal, and Louisiana has certainly propped up the league.
I wonder if WKU is regretting the move to CUSA now.
UAB just having fun with it:
And Marshall sticking to its guns
So, instead of Marshall it's Marshant.
Looks like some lawyers are about to make a lot of money.
Its what college sports were made for
The Conference USA is so incompetent, it's a joke. Television deals are terrible, the expansion history is underwhelming, and the decisions it makes to try to make its teams competitive on a more national scale are puzzling at best (see the pod play it implemented in basketball from 2018 through 2020). Every team trying to get out deserves it and likely will knowing Conference USA's history of being a laughing stock.
Not to mention the part where they didn't build in any financial penalty for leaving the conference early.
And I thought the old Big East looked desperate when they had their requirement of 27 months notice.
With half the conference leaving for the American the following year, I'm surprised CUSA is even around.
And someone, somewhere knew not to put the Charlotte logo next to the North Texas logo:
But should have put the Rice logo in front of North Texas since they only have 6 teams.
Conference USA 2.0. Seriously who tf wants Rice and North Texas in their league
Well there's a reason they are fighting so hard to make these schools stay this year, because they are adding 4 new schools in 2023 (Liberty, Jacksonville St, New Mexico St, and Sam Houston St). Pretty sure there is some minimum number of teams you need to officially be a D1 conference, and it's around 7 or 8 iirc.
They could take some of those schools early, and the independent ones would have to jettison a bunch of games to make room for a conference schedule. And that could affect VT.
Yeah, I'm hoping we don't have to play @Liberty
Marshall is now suing Conference USA
https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/marshall-university-files-lawsuit-a...
"You can't sue me, I'm suing you!"