Or how about Stanford, Michigan or USC? Three excellent academic institutions who have pretty good football teams.jagur1 wrote:We don't know if the BSU thing is a sucess yet? Yes for 5 years but in 20 years? or 40 years? When I'm 80 and people are talking about BSU as an equal to Washington yes. U of Miami is the only school that I can think of that has really come from no place.
And what is sucess? U of Miami isn't a very good college that has let thugs take the University to national attention via football. I'd rather be Northwestern or Vanderbilt. ( A good academic University in a big conference that isn't any good in football)
More Big Sky expansion (UNC vs. NDSU) talk
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PortlandCat, the SEC is not tougher than the Pac-!0 in football. If anyone looks at the non-conference schedules SEC teams play, one can see why the confernece always does miserable in the Sagharin ratings (few road games, and heavy on I-AA/Sun Belt creampuffs). The SEC talks tough football, but I won't believe it until an SEC team beats a BCS team on the road.
Maybe: South Florida, UCF, Nevada, La. Tech, North Texas (Dominating crappy Sun Belt), Troy State.
Failures: Buffalo, Arkansas St., Idaho, La. Mo., Mid Tenn., FAU, FIU, FAMU.
The main trend is teams that move into the Sun Belt conference have a tendency to fail. A few programs have done very well, and the plurality are unspectacular programs but decent.
Sucesses: UCONN, Boise State, Marshall.WYOBISONMAN wrote:I would have to say that Boise State has made a very successful jump, no doubt. However, from every school that has attempted the move to 1A, there are a lot of failures.....
Maybe: South Florida, UCF, Nevada, La. Tech, North Texas (Dominating crappy Sun Belt), Troy State.
Failures: Buffalo, Arkansas St., Idaho, La. Mo., Mid Tenn., FAU, FIU, FAMU.
The main trend is teams that move into the Sun Belt conference have a tendency to fail. A few programs have done very well, and the plurality are unspectacular programs but decent.
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