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...according to Terry Holland.

http://www.reflector.com/sports/content/sports/ecu/stories/2008/07/26/holland.html

We're doing pretty good, but I've always felt like pretty good will eventually get your butt beat," Holland said of the progress C-USA has made since taking on five new members in 2005. "If there is something better you can do, you'd better do it now, as soon as you can, instead of coasting. That's why I keep pushing on that (expansion) issue."


(Terry Holland)

I want to know who he thinks we should add to get to 16.

abezontar wrote:I want to know who he thinks we should add to get to 16.

Good question. It's certainly slim pickings.

I would assume out west they would try to bring TCU back into the fold, and probably also look at La. Tech, Arkansas State, and UNT (I know, I know...) There really isn't much else.

In the east, it's not too great either: Troy, FAU, Temple, Western Kentucky, MTSU, maybe Miami of Ohio out of the MAC


Doesnt make much sense to me

According to Holland, "by and large," Houston, Tulsa and UTEP are better than Rice, Tulane and SMU." For starters, no one is allowed to talk about how much we suck other than us. Secondly, it seems like in the last four years or so we've done better against Houston, Tulsa and UTEP than Rice and Tulane.

And expanding to 16? Isn't that what killed the superWAC? The schools that left to form the MWC got tired of going to conference meetings with "48 guys at one table," where nothing could get done.

abezontar wrote:...according to Terry Holland.

http://www.reflector.com/sports/content/sports/ecu/stories/2008/07/26/holland.html

Waaah! Waaah! Waaah!

Who does Holland think is going to pay C-USA more $$$$ if they expand?

He should probably look at the history of the WAC when they expanded to 16 teams and were not as geographically diverse as his projection.

Check out Wikipedia at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_At ... Conference

The answer is as simple as Al Davis of the Raiders always said:


JUST WIN BABY!

abezontar wrote:I want to know who he thinks we should add to get to 16.

I would add Texas and Arkansas in the west and LSU and Florida in the east. That should help.

mrydel wrote:

abezontar wrote:I want to know who he thinks we should add to get to 16.

I would add Texas and Arkansas in the west and LSU and Florida in the east. That should help.

Unfortunately it is much more likely we add UTsa when they begin their D1 program in 2 years.

East Carolina
Marshal
Memphis
Southern Miss
UAB
UCF
Miami Ohio
Toledo

........................................................
Houston
Rice
SMU
Tulane
Tulsa
Utep
TCU
Baylor

One Trick Pony wrote:East Carolina
Marshal
Memphis
Southern Miss
UAB
UCF
Miami Ohio
Toledo

........................................................
Houston
Rice
SMU
Tulane
Tulsa
Utep
TCU
Baylor

Quit putting us back in C-DOA!! Go pick on New Mexico State or Northern Arizona or somebody!!

One Trick Pony wrote:East Carolina
Marshal
Memphis
Southern Miss
UAB
UCF
Miami Ohio
Toledo

........................................................
Houston
Rice
SMU
Tulane
Tulsa
Utep
TCU
Baylor

i actually wouldn't mind that

deepellumfrog wrote:

One Trick Pony wrote:East Carolina
Marshal
Memphis
Southern Miss
UAB
UCF
Miami Ohio
Toledo

........................................................
Houston
Rice
SMU
Tulane
Tulsa
Utep
TCU
Baylor

Quit putting us back in C-DOA!! Go pick on New Mexico State or Northern Arizona or somebody!!

who are you kidding? after the pac10 takes two from your precious MWC, you're gonna beg for an invite back to CUSA

Talk about a reason for firing a Baylor President, let one move them from a BCS conference to a mid major.

Oh please. Who cares what Terry Holland thinks? There's a reason he's in Nowhere, North Carolina and not the ACC anymore.

But if he wants to keep giving bulletin-board material (granted, that must wait at least a year), that's not a problem. I hope the Owls notice this for a future year also, and I really hope Tulane kicks their butts in the Superdome on Sept 13.