Rooting for Sunbelt?

[jdennis82]

The announcement that ASU's opener @ Oregon will be broadcast on ESPN was made official yesterday.

It brought to mind a question we now face: do we root for our current conference-mates in their OOC games? Prior to the confirmation of the CUSA move, it would've been a no-brainer - hope for ASU to pull the upset of the year and bring credibility to the Sunbelt.

Now, though, does that change? Are we more concerned with possible recruiting battles with our temporary conference partners?

Thoughts?

[NT91]

Always pull for the dog .

Edited June 15, 2012 by TheTastyGreek
Politics outside the Eagles Nest

[Daddy Dumpsalot]

I'll have no more talk of this Sunbelt you speak of.

[TIgreen01]

Of course we root for our current conference mates. Next question...

[MeanGreenTexan]

I'll have no more talk of this Sunbelt you speak of.

Looks like we won't be hearing from you for the next year then?

[Side Show Joe]

Of course we still root for the Sun Belt. This season, we just root a little harder for FIU.

[CMJ]

Hell, I'll root for a "little guy" against a "big guy" 99 times out of a hundred, conference mates or not.

[BeanCounterGrad'03]

Hell, I'll root for a "little guy" against a "big guy" 99 times out of a hundred, conference mates or not.

This

[GrandGreen]

The real question is who do you root for when a CUSA team plays a Belt team this year. I am assuming there are a few games; not counting games against outgoing members such as NT against Houston. I think our loyalty is at this point to CUSA, no matter we still have a year of Belt left.

As far as other OC Belt games; go Belt.

[UNT 90 Grad]

Unless it affects our bowl possibilities, I root for our conference as well as non-conference teams on our schedule. That makes our wins over those teams that much sweeter (or losses more palatable).

[Mean Green Matt]

Other than FIU and NT I hope the sun belt gets destroyed in every game they play in every sport this year (except for RPI help in basketball). This is especially true when CUSA schools are playing the Sun Belt. The Sun Belt is not our conference; CUSA is.

[greenminer]

This thread is kinda facepalm.

[Eastwood Eagle]

Other than FIU and NT I hope the sun belt gets destroyed in every game they play in every sport this year (except for RPI help in basketball). This is especially true when CUSA schools are playing the Sun Belt. The Sun Belt is not our conference; CUSA is.

Yeah, I love seeing the bigger conferences beat up on the small ones too!

I sure hope Alabama teaches WKU a lesson or that Arkansas whoops up on Monroe.

Edited June 16, 2012 by Eastwood Eagle

[Mean Green Matt]

Yeah, I love seeing the bigger conferences beat up on the small ones too!

I sure hope Alabama teaches WKU a lesson or that Arkansas whoops up on Monroe.

That's a heck of a lot better than the sun belt passing CUSA.

[Mean Green 93-98]

Although we're moving on, we have a tie to the Belt teams that we have not yet developed with most of the C-USA teams. While I understand our best interests now lie in the success of C-USA, I'm still a fan of the Belt teams and honestly want to see them do well. Well, most of them.

[Eastwood Eagle]

That's a heck of a lot better than the sun belt passing CUSA.

lol wut.

If they both win I don't see how Sun Belt will surpass CUSA. Come on now.

[jdennis82]

I guess my original thought primarily began out of fear of recruiting battles with ASU and other Sunbelt schools.

CUSA is a card we have that they don't right now, but a big top-25 W trumps that in the eyes of a recruit, I'd think.

[NM Green]

I know I am in the minority here, but I really enjoyed our Sun Belt brethren and will always support them in 2012. The only time I might root against in 2013 and beyond is when they are playing CUSA and I may have to hold my nose with the ugly bird known as UTSA.

GMG

[Arkstfan]

Hell, I'll root for a "little guy" against a "big guy" 99 times out of a hundred, conference mates or not.

Off-topic but reminds me of something I've been wondering.

As a general rule, I've put my "rooting energy" into Boise State quite bit hoping to see them keep SEC fans seething about how undeserved their rankings were. Now going into the Big East, I don't care if they lose every game. I'm wondering if moving to the almost big time of the Big East may actually hurt national interest in watching their games.