Our friends Bill Connelly and Steven Godfrey brought up some salient points about Conference USA and the AAC/SBC/CUSA relationship in general in their latest edition of Podcast Ain't Played Nobody, namely the idea of blowing up the three conferences and combining them into one large mega-conference. We decided to discuss our reactions to their ideas in Slack.
Broaching the Mega-Conference Topic
Will Butler: Personally, I'd be ok with blowing up and combining the Sun Belt, American, and Conference USA, but that's because I'm admittedly biased towards a Texas State perspective.
One of the biggest complaints lodged against our athletic director - and Texas State sports in general by some of our fans - was a perceived lack of effort in getting us into C-USA or the American, where we'd have recognizable (read: in-state) conference rivals like UTSA/UNT/Rice/Houston that our fans actually know.