Orlando article about new CUSA

[Charleston Pony]

took this from the CUSA site. lots of optimism. hopefully everyone will do their part in building this thing up. hope the link works.

http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/confusa/i ... 4fb3be1da4

[Sam I Am]

The Eastern part of the C-USA will be strangers to us for a while, but we will get use to them I am sure. I wish we could start now instead of 2005.

[GoRedGoBlue]

That's a great read.

[MustangFan]

It certainly can't hurt that the league office will be in Dallas. Don't know how much of a help it will be, but it certainly doesn't hurt. Maybe the league will develop a good relationship with local media and get more coverage?

[Hoop Fan]

The question with the new CUSA is clearly whether the West will step up and get competitive. The East is much stronger at this point in time and their patience will grow thin, quickly. I think the SMU and Houston football programs playing to potential is the key to the new CUSA sinking or swimming. You cant have Marshall, Memphis, S. Miss and East Carolina carrying the league and beating each other up in the East.

SMUs fate is in its hands and we have to start winning and stop making excuses.

[giacfsp]

Hopefully they'll beat each other up while we get up to speed to compete. Maybe we can catch them a week after they clobber each other? Coach Tubbs' ability to land stud recruits will be vital to boosting SMU, and subsequently CUSA, to the next level. And Coach Bennett's recruits need to grow up a lot this year.

[king_k]

I don't know, but the new CUSA east doesn't strike me as so much more competitive than the west. East Carolina has been down for a few years, Memphis is a fluke, Southern Miss is solid, Marshall is really iffy to me, and UAB and UCF or whatever aren't such powerhouses. In the longrun, if anything the CUSA west is in much better shape for football.