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Post by TroyFootball05 on Feb 11, 2022 14:13:22 GMT -6
Official from all three schools. Troy will play in the west in 2022, an easier slate than APP, Coastal, Marshall, etc... I will miss playing some of the eastern schools, but won't miss the a** beatings from APP.
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Post by trojanempire on Feb 11, 2022 14:33:22 GMT -6
What are the realigned divisions going to look like?
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Post by TroyFootball05 on Feb 11, 2022 14:38:52 GMT -6
What are the realigned divisions going to look like? West: Texas State, Arkansas State, ULM, Louisiana, Southern Miss, South Alabama, and Troy. East: Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State, Marshall, Old Dominion, and James Madison.
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Post by Possum on Feb 11, 2022 17:08:55 GMT -6
I’m excited about this…
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Post by TroyFootball05 on Feb 11, 2022 20:26:16 GMT -6
We just went from the best G5 to the worst G5 division. No excuse not to be bowling next season.
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Post by saintflorian on Feb 11, 2022 21:31:06 GMT -6
We just went from the best G5 to the worst G5 division. No excuse not to be bowling next season. Are you saying the addition of Southern Miss, James Madison, ODU and Marshall made us worse ?
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Post by buzzlightyear on Feb 11, 2022 21:32:45 GMT -6
The record for next year moved from 5-7 to 8-4 range to 7-5 to 10-2 range. Basically we should be bowling..
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Post by Mr E 205 Legion on Feb 11, 2022 21:52:40 GMT -6
We just went from the best G5 to the worst G5 division. No excuse not to be bowling next season. Are you saying the addition of Southern Miss, James Madison, ODU and Marshall made us worse ? Until TroyFootball05 sees this post and responds, I interpreted the statement as OUR (Troy) moving from the East Division of the SBC (BEST G5 Division) to the West Division of the SBC (worst G5 Division). Meaning we should be bowl eligible every year and contending to play in the Championship game the first weekend of December every season 👍🏼 While that is a nice assumption, there is a reason they actually make us play all the games each season instead of just automatically assigning wins and loses. 😀
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Post by TroyFootball05 on Feb 11, 2022 23:24:52 GMT -6
Are you saying the addition of Southern Miss, James Madison, ODU and Marshall made us worse ? Until TroyFootball05 sees this post and responds, I interpreted the statement as OUR (Troy) moving from the East Division of the SBC (BEST G5 Division) to the West Division of the SBC (worst G5 Division). Meaning we should be bowl eligible every year and contending to play in the Championship game the first weekend of December every season 👍🏼 While that is a nice assumption, there is a reason they actually make us play all the games each season instead of just automatically assigning wins and loses. 😀 Yes. Not saying we'll be in the championship game every year, though getting there will be easier not having to play APP, Coastal, Georgia Southern, or Marshall. JMU is pretty good too, and ODU is coming on. That division is going to be murderer's row. In the west, Louisiana is king of the swamp, though Southern Miss is getting better, and I can't imagine South Al will always be bad. Arkansas State should rebound some this year. It won't be a cakewalk, but it's easier than being in the east, for sure.
SP+ Rankings
East Marshall 56 App state 60 Coastal 73 Georgia st 75 JMU 90 ODU 95 Ga southern 105
West Louisiana 72 Troy 93 Southern miss 98 South Alabama 107 Texas st 118 Arkansas st 121 UL Monroe 130
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Post by cornhole on Feb 12, 2022 7:30:16 GMT -6
Interesting. They can't run fast enough from C-DOA!
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Post by buzzlightyear on Feb 12, 2022 10:18:37 GMT -6
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Post by buzzlightyear on Feb 12, 2022 10:28:51 GMT -6
Again stolen material but our new conference mates discussion as CUSA tried to negotiate them to stay or not leave at all. The group below is Ms Judy (Conf Us Suck Alot) commissioner and her attorneys.
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Post by Troystet on Feb 12, 2022 12:26:23 GMT -6
We just went from the best G5 to the worst G5 division. No excuse not to be bowling next season. Are you saying the addition of Southern Miss, James Madison, ODU and Marshall made us worse ? I think he was saying the West is really weak with the exception of ULL and it will be interesting to see how they do without Napier. The East is brutal and they will eventually have to address that as you are going to have App, Coastal, JMU (yes they are going to be tough) and possibly a invigorated GATA with only one going to win the East with basically Troy and ULL competing for the West. Good for us but it sucks for the teams in the East. You could have three teams in the East with better records than the West Champion in theory
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Post by saintflorian on Feb 12, 2022 14:26:17 GMT -6
Until TroyFootball05 sees this post and responds, I interpreted the statement as OUR (Troy) moving from the East Division of the SBC (BEST G5 Division) to the West Division of the SBC (worst G5 Division). Meaning we should be bowl eligible every year and contending to play in the Championship game the first weekend of December every season 👍🏼 While that is a nice assumption, there is a reason they actually make us play all the games each season instead of just automatically assigning wins and loses. 😀 Yes. Not saying we'll be in the championship game every year, though getting there will be easier not having to play APP, Coastal, Georgia Southern, or Marshall. JMU is pretty good too, and ODU is coming on. That division is going to be murderer's row. In the west, Louisiana is king of the swamp, though Southern Miss is getting better, and I can't imagine South Al will always be bad. Arkansas State should rebound some this year. It won't be a cakewalk, but it's easier than being in the east, for sure.
SP+ Rankings
East Marshall 56 App state 60 Coastal 73 Georgia st 75 JMU 90 ODU 95 Ga southern 105
West Louisiana 72 Troy 93 Southern miss 98 South Alabama 107 Texas st 118 Arkansas st 121 UL Monroe 130
I look at it as a whole. Troy will still have to play 2 teams from the East. SP+ is very deceiving. Look at Alabama and some of the big boys in that ranking. Just think overall the conference stepped up big time. And in time could be the G5 force. JMU and ODU are excellent additions but they haven’t been playing I-A ball, let’s see what they do before anointing them big bad bullies. Marshall is elite G5. Also the West might surprise a lot of folks. Troy, Ark. St., Southern Miss are former champions whose programs are rising back fast. South is up and coming. LaLA is there. If y’all think Troy is just going to cruise in from the West you better check yourself
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Post by buzzlightyear on Feb 12, 2022 14:34:23 GMT -6
For next year (HCJS first year) we have better opportunity to have a better turn around then if we were still in East. Everyone has good points but for now this better for us. Teams that think they are going to breeze any where do not do real well. We don’t have HCxxx anymore so the thought of breezing through an empty cranium such as his will not be an issue.
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Post by buzzlightyear on Feb 12, 2022 14:41:55 GMT -6
Barring major injuries to numerous key players we will have a good opportunity to go bowling next year.
When my oldest son was a senior in HSchool and we are mid size high school in the panhandle of Florida we were pre-season ranked as the 12th best HIgh school Football team in the whole country. Fast forward to the loss of 12 of 22 starters for either all season or at least half. Injuries mostly but two arrests we finished 5-5. Bad things can happen to anyone. Alacrapa without their two best receivers we’re not the same team.
We goin bowling cause HCJS has a good staff and we have good talent and he unlike HC xxxx is not whatever that guy pretended to be.
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Post by mlambertii on Feb 12, 2022 17:27:45 GMT -6
So we will keep a rival game with an east opponent like we had with suckforth?
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Post by buzzlightyear on Feb 12, 2022 18:50:58 GMT -6
So we will keep a rival game with an east opponent like we had with suckforth? I don’t think protected rivalries are a part of the plan. Realistically it was designed in Belt as special for Troy and South.
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Post by scatman on Feb 13, 2022 14:36:16 GMT -6
So we will keep a rival game with an east opponent like we had with suckforth? I don’t think protected rivalries are a part of the plan. Realistically it was designed in Belt as special for Troy and South. Even though they have rang our bell for like, 3 or 4 years straight, I’d love to play App every year. Good people, always loyal fan base, and an awesome town to go to for a football game.
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Post by Trojan By Birth on Feb 13, 2022 15:30:51 GMT -6
I don’t think protected rivalries are a part of the plan. Realistically it was designed in Belt as special for Troy and South. Even though they have rang our bell for like, 3 or 4 years straight, I’d love to play App every year. Good people, always loyal fan base, and an awesome town to go to for a football game. Agreed.
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Post by crawlspace13 on Feb 13, 2022 15:47:56 GMT -6
I don’t think protected rivalries are a part of the plan. Realistically it was designed in Belt as special for Troy and South. Even though they have rang our bell for like, 3 or 4 years straight, I’d love to play App every year. Good people, always loyal fan base, and an awesome town to go to for a football game. One of my favorite games of the year (and since the last three years didn't really happen I'm ignoring the lopsided W/L). Hate the idea of losing this as a yearly match up, though if we both do our jobs we'll be meeting regularly in early December regardless. 😁
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Post by Trojans1andAll on Feb 13, 2022 16:08:34 GMT -6
This may not be the popular opinion, but I'm not crazy about the idea of moving to the west. Troy held their own in the east for a long time, we had a decline but we just needed the right coach to get us back on track. Now I think we have him. I don't want to run from App or Marshall, I'd rather get better and meet them head on.
I'm afraid that when we start winning again - and we will soon - we're just going to hear, "That move to the west was a boon for Troy! Glad to see they found a place they could win."
Troy is about to come back, stAte never stays down long, Louisiana is the class of the SBC right now. I hope we can all pull the west up to a higher level.
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Post by trojanocean on Feb 13, 2022 17:00:24 GMT -6
I'd prefer to stay in the "tougher" East side as well. Smooth waves never made a good sailor.
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Post by crawlspace13 on Feb 13, 2022 19:36:21 GMT -6
I'd prefer to stay in the "tougher" East side as well. Smooth waves never made a good sailor. I'm someone else that would rather stay in the east and cringe every time someone says "wow, we'll definitely be bowl eligible because the west is so bad!" BUT, I do think stAte will find it's way back because of a better staff. South AL will improve for the same reason. Even ULM and Tx State have real potential for improvement right now. I'd still prefer to play with what is currently the better division, but the west will improve.
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Post by Mr. Ho on Feb 14, 2022 6:35:47 GMT -6
FYI: Not to rain on anyone's Fantasy World, butvlooking at our performance over the last two season is one reason most consider the West weak...other than Southern Old Mississippi, I'd imagine we are everyone's favorite Homecoming team right now.
Not saying it won't change but getting excited about finishing 6-6 to become bowl eligible is where we are now and that's just sad.
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