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Post by roaringsince96 on Nov 20, 2020 19:20:45 GMT -6
Great article. Funny, two years ago, although it does seem like years. I liked Gumbart the first time I met him. I had no idea he was capable of this type of vision for conference expansion. He is very forward thinking. North Alabama really did get in at the right time. The landscape is continually evolving and Gumbart is going to be caught saying if I had only.....good for him and us.
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Post by brandon on Nov 21, 2020 17:39:46 GMT -6
Well, I hope my info is wrong, but was told JSU will not be a part of the ASUN expansion.....
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Post by unalions on Nov 21, 2020 18:41:07 GMT -6
Well, I hope my info is wrong, but was told JSU will not be a part of the ASUN expansion..... Well, that's disappointing to hear. But, I hope that it doesn't put the breaks on the other two considering it. It could potentially create an opportunity for another school to jump in the mix.
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Post by northalaspectator on Nov 21, 2020 20:29:45 GMT -6
It’s been hard for me to see how the ASUN could start football with the location of football playing schools. The Commissioner has been talking about it for 10 years and probably no closer today.
One of the reasons Jacksonville State left the ASUN was to get all of their sports in the same conference, why would they go back if it was only on a temporary and be in two conferences. Also couldn’t see Eastern Kentucky and Central Arkansas moving their entire athletic departments to the ASUN.
If you google - COVID-19 NCAA Realignment - several sports articles will come up.
Maybe there might have some type of talks with the NCAA on some type of waiver on starting a new conference similar to the one that was purposed with that UAC concept earlier this year and the ASUN was backing it.
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Post by brandon on Nov 22, 2020 18:28:31 GMT -6
EKU people I've been in contact with the past 48 hours are saying that people are hinting around about a possible move...
I guess at this point, time will tell.
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Post by roaringsince96 on Dec 3, 2020 19:35:13 GMT -6
Well this should get interesting during football season in couple of months. I really hope it comes to fruition. Potential for exciting league, although it does cut down opportunity to play big pay games with loaded conference schedule and a bye week.
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Post by brandon on Dec 3, 2020 21:26:36 GMT -6
Well this should get interesting during football season in couple of months. I really hope it comes to fruition. Potential for exciting league, although it does cut down opportunity to play big pay games with loaded conference schedule and a bye week. But its basically tit for tat, we were supposed to play JSU anyway... if it happens, JSU would be a conference game instead of OOC. I'm sure we would try to play every year anyway. Gaining UCA and EKU would also be games we would actively try to get. The RMU and NCA&T are the walls. We would not actively try to get them.
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Post by brandon on Dec 8, 2020 14:05:34 GMT -6
Well, The WAC has officially invited Southern Utah...
Invited dont usually go public unless it's a sure thing...
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Post by unalions on Dec 8, 2020 16:45:50 GMT -6
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Post by unafied on Dec 9, 2020 13:30:33 GMT -6
I was reading up on the potential WAC expansion and found it interesting that some think the WAC is hoping that, even after Central Arkansas joins the ASUN, they stay with the Texas schools as a WAC affiliate (perhaps only until the ASUN has enough football schools of its own).
Of course, the ASUN could probably invite a Louisiana school or two and HAVE the necessary teams to play football. But that would probably be the death knell for the Southland conference (at least temporarily), and I know Gumbart has said that was something the conference wanted to avoid.
This craziness continues to illustrate how FCS needs to blow it all up and just reorganize with conferences that put teams in tight geographical footprints.
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Post by northalaspectator on Dec 9, 2020 14:16:39 GMT -6
I was reading up on the potential WAC expansion and found it interesting that some think the WAC is hoping that, even after Central Arkansas joins the ASUN, they stay with the Texas schools as a WAC affiliate (perhaps only until the ASUN has enough football schools of its own). Of course, the ASUN could probably invite a Louisiana school or two and HAVE the necessary teams to play football. But that would probably be the death knell for the Southland conference (at least temporarily), and I know Gumbart has said that was something the conference wanted to avoid. This craziness continues to illustrate how FCS needs to blow it all up and just reorganize with conferences that put teams in tight geographical footprints. As I understand it the Commissioner said that the ASUN wouldn’t approach a school that would cause a Conference to cause a Conference to go under or loose an AQ in a sport. He didn’t say that the ASUN wouldn’t listen if an school from another Conference approach the ASUN.
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Post by brandon on Dec 14, 2020 10:13:36 GMT -6
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Post by brandon on Dec 14, 2020 10:14:06 GMT -6
^^^ Interesting read...
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Post by unalions on Dec 14, 2020 11:21:11 GMT -6
Wish I could read it without subscribing. Can you summarize?
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Post by northalaspectator on Dec 14, 2020 11:59:33 GMT -6
Wish I could read it without subscribing. Can you summarize? Just do google search - Bison Media Zone's 2020 Summer Video Series. Dated July 9, 2020.
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