Maroon Nation

No doubt about peers leaving us in the dust. Do you really think it's all about Kidd retiring, though? He didn't make the playoffs the last 5-6 seasons, and you have to go even further back to get a playoff win. His last title game appearance came two decades before he hung up the whistle. I'm not b...

Leland to a team that didn't make the tourney last year and now has a new coach

FAU made the tournament. They were an 8 or 9 seed.

Walker entered the portal this morning. AW a finalist for the UIC job. Walker committed to FAU. That's an interesting landing spot. Obviously they've been a hot name recently with their final four run followed up with another great season in which they were easily in the tournament regardless of co...

Great post, Lion. I have no idea how realistic it is, but if we could get ETSU and Chattanooga on board with our current group we'd be talking about a really nice conference.

Hopefully the UAC will be losing us soon to FBS I'm a never say never kind of person, but it's really difficult to envision a realistic path for the UAC to FBS as it is currently constituted. There are two many obstacles in the way. The only thing I can come up with, and even this seems too far fet...

Also the potential the ASUN is going to add more football schools. Rumors include West Florida moving up as well as southern CAA school or schools (per Matt Brown). On the one hand that's good, but how big is the overall conference going to get at the end of all of this? I don't want to fight 16-18...

As soon as I posted that, I read something on the ASUN board that says that the original reporter doesn't know, but has a hunch that it could be a return to the Southland. It had occurred to me before. Would it be worth our while to inquire about menbership with the Southland? We're a bit of a north...

I saw that too, Steve. That smells like a C-USA invite. If so, it surprises me at least a little. I didn't expect to get a spot, but I figured if we lost out to a fellow UAC member it would be Tarleton. I suppose the powers that be are deeming SFA a safer bet now that they've joined the University o...

Here. It makes no sense that he would leave. Unless there’s something else we don’t know about. NIL guarantees somewhere else? Something like that maybe? Just very very odd to me. It probably is something like that. These kinds of things are happening to every team from the Power 5 on down. I'm not...

This university took a step back when we ran Benson out of town. I'd surmise that I'm probably not as anti-McFadden as you are...but I agree. I loved Dr. Benson. Opinions are subjective, but I think he's arguably the best leader EKU ever had (at least since Martin). That said, he had already interv...