BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

And then there were three left to prop up the CUSA banner...

 

I acknowledge your points. But Appy State and Georgia Southern are a lot further away than the Ohio based schools in the MAC. I would think Marshall could bus to at least some of the MAC teams. Would attendance or the television revenues be materially higher in the Sun Belt? As for the future of the Sun Belt given the ongoing concentration of wealth in the Power Four conferences any of the other conferences have significant growth potential.

 

Somebody’s probably more knowledgeable about this than I am, but wasn’t Marshall’s most recent exit from the MAC a bad breakup?

 

Yep, I was at Ohio University at the time in 1969 or so. From a Huntington magazine: "The 1968 Thundering Herd, in its last season as a Mid-American Conference member, posted a 0-9-1 record and was outscored by its opponents 358-129. It all culminated when the university was suspended indefinitely from the MAC, its punishment for allegedly committing more than 140 recruiting violations. It wasn't uncommon for a recruit or a Marshall player back then to find money in an envelope under his plate after eating a meal, says former Marshall player Nate Ruffin."

 

Gee, that was never in the movie.

We're talking about Marshall's much more recent dalliance with the MAC, aren't we?

 

I had no idea they were in the MAC previous to their second entry into the MAC after they moved up from I-AA. Interesting.

 

Yeah, the MAC in the Sixties was not exactly a murderers' row of power programs. Miami would kick up its head coach to the Big Ten every few years, but other than that it was pretty slim pickins.

So if all Marshall's filthy cheating could do was get them a record of 0-9-1, they must not have been doing much of a job of cheating.

 

Yes.

 

How much would they have to pay you to go to college along the West Virginia-Kentucky line now, much less in the era before they made any pretense at pollution control?

 

I dunno, I suppose it would probably depend on whether anybody else was going to pay me anything to go anywhere.

 

Would seem like a no-brainer to me to leave the MAC.

 

Please tell me this means Trump University of Lynchburg is screwed because there's no home in C-USA.
Or have I missed something and has some league sunk below sea level to take them?