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1 minute ago, MikeG said:

This isn't the Premier League-- you don't "earn" your way into the better conference-- it is about backroom deals and other BS. They will only see a P5 conference if that conference needs them for some reason. When USF got into the Big East-- it was due to our relationships with schools like Louisville, our presence in Florida for other teams recruiting, the size of our school and TV market (though that assumed our market cared about USF more than UF/FSU/MIami - which is decidedly not accurate), and to be fair-- being in the right place at the right time with a conference that was more or less desperate.

The only conference even close to that position currently in the P5 is the Big 12 -- and they seem just fine NOT expanding for whatever reason - mostly I think because they do not want to split their TV revenues with more teams and possibly the travel considerations for all sports. Who knows. The people who control this crap are happy as can be with how the last conference shake up landed. They have effectively shut out all these whipper snapper schools from playing in their exalted ranks-- even though they carry some teams that are pathetic at most sports. That we were ever part of the BIG conferences during our brief stint in the Big East makes our situation frustrating for fans who got used to sort of mattering - even while being crapped on by ESPN as a conference every step of the way.

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18 minutes ago, MikeG said:

This isn't the Premier League-- you don't "earn" your way into the better conference-- it is about backroom deals and other BS. They will only see a P5 conference if that conference needs them for some reason. When USF got into the Big East-- it was due to our relationships with schools like Louisville, our presence in Florida for other teams recruiting, the size of our school and TV market (though that assumed our market cared about USF more than UF/FSU/MIami - which is decidedly not accurate), and to be fair-- being in the right place at the right time with a conference that was more or less desperate.

The only conference even close to that position currently in the P5 is the Big 12 -- and they seem just fine NOT expanding for whatever reason - mostly I think because they do not want to split their TV revenues with more teams and possibly the travel considerations for all sports. Who knows. The people who control this crap are happy as can be with how the last conference shake up landed. They have effectively shut out all these whipper snapper schools from playing in their exalted ranks-- even though they carry some teams that are pathetic at most sports. That we were ever part of the BIG conferences during our brief stint in the Big East makes our situation frustrating for fans who got used to sort of mattering - even while being crapped on by ESPN as a conference every step of the way.

You can keep believing all that if it makes you feel better.  Come 2023/2024 we will see what happens.

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1 hour ago, USFRaider said:

You can keep believing all that if it makes you feel better.  Come 2023/2024 we will see what happens.

We need to add some heat to this rivalry so we can ride their coattails in lol

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1 minute ago, Rocky Style said:

We need to add some heat to this rivalry so we can ride their coattails in lol

Maybe in 2020 we can when we get them back at RayJay.  Won't be happening this season.

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