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The original CUSA had Louisville, Marquette, DePaul, Cincy, South Florida, Memphis, Charlotte, UAB, USM, Tulane, and Houston. That was a great collection of traditional basketball powers. Then the old Big East poached away Louisville, Marquette, DePaul, and Cincy, replacing them with SMU, UTEP, Marshall, Rice, Tulsa, ECU, and UCF. Certainly a drop down in hoops power, but Memphis was still kicking ass in the Calipari years. But then the AAC takes away UCF, USF, UH, Tulsa, Tulane, Memphis, and ECU.

Schools like UAB, WKU and UTEP, as well as improving programs like ODU, La Tech and MUTS, and programs that are down now but used to be good like Charlotte and USM, have to look at us, UTSA, Rice, Marshall, FAU, and FIU, and just cry at what we are doing to their RPI and the conference's RPI.

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3 hours ago, BillySee58 said:

 

I'd have to think this is well on pace to be the worst year ever for CUSA, RPI wise. Right, @TheTastyGreek?

Yes, and it isn't even going to be close. Last year was the worst, with CUSA 17th in the conference rankings. This year we're at 21, with few OOC wins that could boost us, and a lot of terrible losses that will likely keep us where we are, if not drop us behind the Ohio Valley Conference by the end of the year. 

For reference, the Sun Belt is, according to RPI, a superior conference to CUSA this year. They currently have 3 teams (out of 11) above .500 against D1 opponents. 

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4 hours ago, TheTastyGreek said:

Yes, and it isn't even going to be close. Last year was the worst, with CUSA 17th in the conference rankings. This year we're at 21, with few OOC wins that could boost us, and a lot of terrible losses that will likely keep us where we are, if not drop us behind the Ohio Valley Conference by the end of the year. 

For reference, the Sun Belt is, according to RPI, a superior conference to CUSA this year. They currently have 3 teams (out of 11) above .500 against D1 opponents. 

Good stuff, as always. Thank you

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On January 13, 2016 at 5:55 PM, TheTastyGreek said:

Yes, and it isn't even going to be close. Last year was the worst, with CUSA 17th in the conference rankings. This year we're at 21, with few OOC wins that could boost us, and a lot of terrible losses that will likely keep us where we are, if not drop us behind the Ohio Valley Conference by the end of the year. 

For reference, the Sun Belt is, according to RPI, a superior conference to CUSA this year. They currently have 3 teams (out of 11) above .500 against D1 opponents. 

One of the most annoying excuses we kept hearing, from both Dickenson on air and from RV, is that this is just a harder league than the Sun Belt we became so accustomed to having success in. As Tasty pointed out, heading into conference play this was by far the worst season RPI-wise in CUSA history. Probably finished around the same. Not sure what Sun Belt conference RPI rank was in 2011-2012 (last season under Jones).

And to top it off, we get knocked off by a former Sun Belt team and the conference winner is a former Sun Belt team. Both of which made the jump from Sun Belt to CUSA the same year as us. 

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3 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

One of the most annoying excuses we kept hearing, from both Dickenson on air and from RV, is that this is just a harder league than the Sun Belt we became so accustomed to having success in. As Tasty pointed out, heading into conference play this was by far the worst season RPI-wise in CUSA history. Probably finished around the same. Not sure what Sun Belt conference RPI rank was in 2011-2012 (last season under Jones).

CUSA is the 22nd ranked conference in terms of RPI this year. That's 5 slots behind the Sun Belt this season, and closer to the SWAC than the AAC in terms of raw numbers. 

CUSA 2015-16: Composite RPI of .4734
SBC 2011-12: Composite RPI of .4831

For some reason, I'm having SERIOUS problems with replying to posts today... Here are the links for 2016: http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_conf_Men.html and for 2012: http://www.realtimerpi.com/2011-2012/rpi_conf_Men.html

...and, for the record, IPS can eat a rooster. Not loving the board software at the moment. 

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2 minutes ago, TheTastyGreek said:

CUSA is the 22nd ranked conference in terms of RPI this year. That's 5 slots behind the Sun Belt this season, and closer to the SWAC than the AAC in terms of raw numbers. 

CUSA 2015-16: Composite RPI of .4734
SBC 2011-12: Composite RPI of .4831

For some reason, I'm having SERIOUS problems with replying to posts today... Here are the links for 2016: http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_conf_Men.html and for 2012: http://www.realtimerpi.com/2011-2012/rpi_conf_Men.html

...and, for the record, IPS can eat a rooster. Not loving the board software at the moment. 

If it's any consolation, I appreciate you. You loyal. I'd leave you a heartwarming DJ Khaled gif if I wasn't posting from mobile.

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On 3/12/2016 at 6:05 PM, BillySee58 said:

One of the most annoying excuses we kept hearing, from both Dickenson on air and from RV, is that this is just a harder league than the Sun Belt we became so accustomed to having success in. As Tasty pointed out, heading into conference play this was by far the worst season RPI-wise in CUSA history. Probably finished around the same. Not sure what Sun Belt conference RPI rank was in 2011-2012 (last season under Jones).

And to top it off, we get knocked off by a former Sun Belt team and the conference winner is a former Sun Belt team. Both of which made the jump from Sun Belt to CUSA the same year as us. 

Excuses from the AD and the people associated with. 

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UAB and USM are the only charter members left, USM the only charter football member left. FIU and FAU didn't play football when CUSA was chartered. ODU, UTSA, and Charlotte didn't have football when CUSA 2.0 was created. 

Only five schools have played 10 or more seasons in CUSA. WKU is the newest member joining in 2014 and eight schools have only one more season in CUSA than WKU.

Replacing DePaul didn't turn Rice hoops into DePaul and didn't turn MTSU into Memphis.

The Southern used to have Alabama and North Carolina as members, WAC used to have Arizona, Arizona State, BYU and Utah. The Valley used to have Kansas and Nebraska.

The brand doesn't build schools. The schools build the brand.

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