It’s not you, it’s me. I had lingering baggage from previous relationships that really made it difficult for me to love you. That doesn’t mean you aren’t a solid conference or that you won’t find quality members in the future. You were really my rebound conference. See once I got dumped I did not really have anywhere to turn and you were there with open arms. I appreciate your willingness to accept a broken me who didn’t even have dreams to pursue. You took me in for exactly who I was. A long the way I enjoyed the play, but no matter how either of us tried it just never really clicked. We seemed to stay together just for the plain sex. I admit we had a few good rumbles in the hay, but most often we just weren’t performing how we both wanted us to and you never really did excite me.
So you see now I have those dreams and I know what the perfect girls looks like for me and I know it isn’t you. I have found another partner and while I don’t think she is all that attractive, in some ways you actually look better, she has some hotter friends and I think that once I get in with her I can hook up with one of her friends who really does look like my soul mate.
In the end - thank you for being there and being you, but like all relationships there are some things that just didn’t work. I wish you the best. Oh and watch out for the Wildcats - I hear they have a really bad cases of the AIDS.
Perfect analogy. Unfortunately, this also means that CUSA is the roommate/BFF of the hot girl we really wanna get with, and we’re attempting the nearly impossible switch.
CUSA probably knows it, and is okay with it, cause they don’t think we can pull it off. Of course, she just got dumped by ECU (yikes), so we’re her rebound too.
We just need to make sure to wear protection - last thing we wanna do is get stuck with her for 18 years.
CUSA also kicked our a$$ out the door, allegedly, back in the day. CUSA will do what’s best for CUSA, whether that includes us or not.
As far as the A10, not going to miss it much. Will miss being able to attend a game 5 miles from my house each year. Other than that, can’t think of anything else to miss.
It’s not you, it’s me. I had lingering baggage from previous relationships that really made it difficult for me to love you. That doesn’t mean you aren’t a solid conference or that you won’t find quality members in the future. You were really my rebound conference. See once I got dumped I did not really have anywhere to turn and you were there with open arms. I appreciate your willingness to accept a broken me who didn’t even have dreams to pursue. You took me in for exactly who I was. A long the way I enjoyed the play, but no matter how either of us tried it just never really clicked. We seemed to stay together just for the plain sex. I admit we had a few good rumbles in the hay, but most often we just weren’t performing how we both wanted us to and you never really did excite me.
So you see now I have those dreams and I know what the perfect girls looks like for me and I know it isn’t you. I have found another partner and while I don’t think she is all that attractive, in some ways you actually look better, she has some hotter friends and I think that once I get in with her I can hook up with one of her friends who really does look like my soul mate.
In the end - thank you for being there and being you, but like all relationships there are some things that just didn’t work. I wish you the best. Oh and watch out for the Wildcats - I hear they have a really bad cases of the AIDS.[/quote]
It’s not you, it’s me. I had lingering baggage from previous relationships that really made it difficult for me to love you. That doesn’t mean you aren’t a solid conference or that you won’t find quality members in the future. You were really my rebound conference. See once I got dumped I did not really have anywhere to turn and you were there with open arms. I appreciate your willingness to accept a broken me who didn’t even have dreams to pursue. You took me in for exactly who I was. A long the way I enjoyed the play, but no matter how either of us tried it just never really clicked. We seemed to stay together just for the plain sex. I admit we had a few good rumbles in the hay, but most often we just weren’t performing how we both wanted us to and you never really did excite me.
So you see now I have those dreams and I know what the perfect girls looks like for me and I know it isn’t you. I have found another partner and while I don’t think she is all that attractive, in some ways you actually look better, she has some hotter friends and I think that once I get in with her I can hook up with one of her friends who really does look like my soul mate.
In the end - thank you for being there and being you, but like all relationships there are some things that just didn’t work. I wish you the best. Oh and watch out for the Wildcats - I hear they have a really bad cases of the AIDS.[/quote]
[quote=“casstommy, post:19, topic:27890”]I guess I’m one of the few who enjoyed the A10. I never really understood the animosity so many had towards it and I firmly believe that had we not sucked ass for 90% of our time here, fans would have appreciated the league a little more.
I’ll miss you A10, especially when I’m trying to remember who the hell is even in this shitty basketball conference we are in now.[/quote]This is about my feeling as well. If our program hadn’t spiraled downward so far as we entered the conference, then fans wouldn’t be so pissed off about the A10. It probably would have helped if the A10 hadn’t swooned right when Charlotte entered, giving fans a bad first impression and killing the t.v. deal for a while. I always felt the A10 was a conference with potential to rise again, and they showed it the last two years, only to once again get raided of their best programs. It’s still a better basketball conference now than CUSA will be. I really care little for the other basketball programs in CUSA, and will find it hard to get at all interested in OOC for the rest of the league, despite the huge ramifications that tends to have on postseason prospects (because this will likely be a 2-bid conference at best).
I’m not sure I see how this conference is going to be better for the Niners than the A10 in basketball. No close rivals either, some teams are even further away, multiple programs as bad as Fordham anchoring any teams at the top that might be good in a given year. There are more programs in the south, which apparently matters to some fans? Why? Recruits would rather play in El Paso, TX or Ruston, LA than in DC, Philly, or NYC?
All of our hopes are now pinned on football dragging basketball into the AAC at best over the next 25 years, which feels really similar to the A10 at its best in terms of quality of basketball, particularly once Uconn and Cincinnati leave for another conference once expansion starts up again (assuming there isn’t already a separate D-1 division formed). Will fans be happier in the AAC than they were in the A10 if that happens? I guess we’ll be a football school then, so it won’t matter as much, but I don’t get the excitement to leave the A10 in basketball.
Sorry for the negative attitude, I’m just bummed about the gigantic step down in basketball prospects. I know why it happened, just frustrating.
I like to take the longest view on this that I can. When I was a freshman at Charlotte we were still in the SunBelt playing our games at what is now Bojangles coliseum. We had no on campus arena and not even a realistic hope of football.
Fast forward to today and we have a great on campus arena and football stadium with a new football program and way more community involvement and respect for our teams than we used to have (this is anecdotal I know but I am around a lot of high school kids in the last few years due to my nephew (who wants to go to Charlotte instead of State by the way) and the respect is there. The basic interest is there. We just have to maximize out potential) so I take the opinion that the overall package is better no matter what conference we are in.
Do I wish we were in a better basketball league? Of course. Just like every other fan of a Cusa 3.0 school. But when I look at where we are now compared to back then I can’t help but be pleased. Did it take longer than I would have liked, sure. But we are getting there.
What were our choices? Stay in the A10 and hope the Big South or SoCon allowed us for football only?
Basketball took another hit but there are some solid programs in the league (UAB, ODU, WKU) and some up and coming programs (MTSU, USM, LT). I guess my point of view isn’t as negative as some here.
What were our choices? Stay in the A10 and hope the Big South or SoCon allowed us for football only?
Basketball took another hit but there are some solid programs in the league (UAB, ODU, WKU) and some up and coming programs (MTSU, USM, LT). I guess my point of view isn’t as negative as some here.[/quote]That was the purpose for my last sentence there. I know it was the best choice, for football and other sports (by far). Basketball would’ve been better off staying in the A10 at least in the short term, even after it got raided. Similar to our last conference switch, but this seems like a bigger step down to me. There’s decent programs, but I think they’ll have a pretty big hurdle in overcoming the dregs at the bottom each year (hopefully we’re never one of those, but we’ll see…).
My main point though is I don’t get the animosity towards the A10. It could’ve been a good league if the Niners were a solid program while in it. That animosity can be directed to the folks in charge of the program during it’s slide I think, coaches and AD, rather than the league. The new CUSA will represent an even bigger challenge to keep the program from sliding further.
I agree with this, especially the bolded part. Just like our move back to CUSA is currently our best available option, our move to the A10 was our best option at that era in our history. I don’t know where we would have gone if the A10 had not invited us.
It saddens me a little that Davidson and ECU are now in a better basketball league than we are.
With that said, CUSA 3.0 is our fast track to FBS football and I can’t wait to be in a better baseball league. Soccer will be better too.
I agree with this, especially the bolded part. Just like our move back to CUSA is currently our best available option, our move to the A10 was our best option at that era in our history. I don’t know where we would have gone if the A10 had not invited us.
It saddens me a little that Davidson and ECU are now in a better basketball league than we are.
With that said, CUSA 3.0 is our fast track to FBS football and I can’t wait to be in a better baseball league. Soccer will be better too.[/quote]
We need to get away from “going to our best option” and start dictating our own moves. Hopefully football is the start of that.
I’ll miss the A-10 we were in, but I was excited about that move. I thought we would do much better than we did, but I knew it was a quality bball league.
I am not excited about this move, but I accept it and understand it.
