News of conference realignment has mostly been focused around the relocation - both actual moves and rumors - of teams in current BCS conferences, but the drama surrounding conference membership has run through all 11 FBS schools over the last several months.
An open records request by the The Murfreesboro Daily News Journal has revealed some of the efforts Sun Belt Conference commissioner Karl Benson took to preserve the future of the league. This included proposing a four-conference merger, convincing current Conference USA members to join the Sun Belt, and targeting as many as 21 schools for possible expansion.
This behemoth is a non-starter in my book. It's too big to adequately determine champions on the basis of head-to-head and common opponents alone. You'd be reduced to point differentials and (sometimes) a bloody coin toss, and where's the fun in that? This super-conference nonsense has GOT to go.
It won't leave, I'm sure, because there seems to be too much $$ in it. But IMO it's stupid nonetheless. Not that anyone is going to listed to little ol' SH....
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
SuperHornet wrote:This behemoth is a non-starter in my book. It's too big to adequately determine champions on the basis of head-to-head and common opponents alone. You'd be reduced to point differentials and (sometimes) a bloody coin toss, and where's the fun in that? This super-conference nonsense has GOT to go.
It won't leave, I'm sure, because there seems to be too much $$ in it. But IMO it's stupid nonetheless. Not that anyone is going to listed to little ol' SH....
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
