[quote=“Alumni93, post:20, topic:32378”]You’re going back to the days when we were down. We built our program up and moved conferences until we were in the Conference USA. In basketball, we were one of the stronger basketball conferences, sending 3-6 teams to the NCAA each year and we were a contender every year.
The power conferences started their expansions. We were primed to move into the Big East but our esteemed AD refused to start football and decided we should go to the A10 and that’s the beginning of the end. [/quote]
If it’s true that our invite to the Big East would have happened, and didn’t, simply because we did not want to start football, then that obviously makes this whole thread and questions about peers moot. If all that is true, we had the opportunity to be an exception when compared to our peers, and I can see what makes us much different from the other Sunbelt teams from the 80’s.
[quote=“dmastinsc, post:21, topic:32378”][quote=“Alumni93, post:20, topic:32378”]You’re going back to the days when we were down. We built our program up and moved conferences until we were in the Conference USA. In basketball, we were one of the stronger basketball conferences, sending 3-6 teams to the NCAA each year and we were a contender every year.
The power conferences started their expansions. We were primed to move into the Big East but our esteemed AD refused to start football and decided we should go to the A10 and that’s the beginning of the end. [/quote]
If it’s true that our invite to the Big East would have happened, and didn’t, simply because we did not want to start football, then that obviously makes this whole thread and questions about peers moot. If all that is true, we had the opportunity to be an exception when compared to our peers, and I can see what makes us much different from the other Sunbelt teams from the 80’s.[/quote]
Given our success in multiple sports in CUSA 1.0, a football program or at least the promise of one to come would have sent us on up to the next conference level. From SBC to Metro to CUSA to BE and to what is now the AAC.
[quote=“NinerWupAss, post:22, topic:32378”][quote=“dmastinsc, post:21, topic:32378”][quote=“Alumni93, post:20, topic:32378”]You’re going back to the days when we were down. We built our program up and moved conferences until we were in the Conference USA. In basketball, we were one of the stronger basketball conferences, sending 3-6 teams to the NCAA each year and we were a contender every year.
The power conferences started their expansions. We were primed to move into the Big East but our esteemed AD refused to start football and decided we should go to the A10 and that’s the beginning of the end. [/quote]
If it’s true that our invite to the Big East would have happened, and didn’t, simply because we did not want to start football, then that obviously makes this whole thread and questions about peers moot. If all that is true, we had the opportunity to be an exception when compared to our peers, and I can see what makes us much different from the other Sunbelt teams from the 80’s.[/quote]
Given our success in multiple sports in CUSA 1.0, a football program or at least the promise of one to come would have sent us on up to the next conference level. From SBC to Metro to CUSA to BE and to what is now the AAC.[/quote]. There is ZERO doubt about this.