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VA_Seawolf

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Re: Conference Realignment Rumors
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2017, 10:04:35 am »
Coastal got the call from the Sun Belt to move up when their stadium was barely bigger than ours and was well below the NCAA minimum. I'm not saying this is something we should do straight away, but I'm glad it's an option. I think our biggest challenge right now is simply filling the stadium. I'd love FBS, but I have no interest in being Eastern Michigan playing in a 30k seat stadium that only has 4k show up every week. Priore hasn't got it done in the CAA and with Hemphill leaving I think we could go from a five win team yearly to a two or three win team which would kill attendance even more. SH should have fired Priore and made Hemphill the head coach, but that's another topic....

If we could get homecoming crowds on a weekly basis, we'll be in good shape for a move up when the time comes. I look at independence as an avenue to forming a regional FBS conference with peer institutions. We wouldn't be like BYU and try to do it forever obviously. This waiver that the NCAA granted opens the door for much of the current CAA football teams to reclassify as independents during the transition period and then come together as an FBS conference one the transition period is over.