rlh04d wrote:lime wrote:Northern Kentucky, who I didn't expect to be joining the MVC, is joining the Horizon League (giving them 10 members). The A-Sun is down to 7 members (the autobid minimum) and should be pushing hard to get UAB on board with them.
What is there they can really offer them that would qualify as pushing hard?
Unless they offered UAB full take on their NCAA shares, I can't see how UAB would care how hard they'd push, if they could join a better conference.
What NCAA shares though?
In their 36 years as a conference
Only a couple different schools have won a tournament title (only bid for that conference) and of those teams almost none of them are still ASun members
Belmont - 5 - 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012 - no longer ASun member
UCFa - 4 - 1994, 1996, 2004, 2005 - no longer ASun member
Arkansas-Llittle Rock - 3 1986, 1989, 1990 - no longer ASun member
Georgia Southern - 3 1983, 1987, 1992 - no longer ASun member
Mercer - 3 1981, 1985, 2014 - no longer ASun member
College of Charleston - 2 1997, 1998 - no longer ASun member
East Tennessee State - 2 2009, 2010 - no longer ASun member
Georgia State 2 - 1991, 2001 - no longer ASun member
Louisana Monroe - 2 1979, 1982 - no longer ASun member
Samford - 2 - 1999, 2000 - no longer ASun member
Centenary - 1 1980 - no longer ASun member
FIU - 1 1995 - no longer ASun member
Florida Atlantic - 1 2002 - no longer ASun member
Florida Gulf Coast - 1 2013 - no longer ASun member
Houston Baptist - 1 1984 - no longer ASun member
North Florida - 1 2015
Troy - 1 2003 - no longer ASun member
UTSA - 1 1988 - - no longer ASun member
Out of the 32 conferences in the NCAA right now the ASun has the fewest all time NCAA bids currently in it's conference with 7...3 less than the next closest team - The Summit. Since the turn of the century the ASun has had victories in only the 02, 13, and 14 NCAA tournaments. Only the 13 tournament involved more than 1 win. Only 1 team with an NCAA tournament win (2013 FGCU) is still in the conference. There are no shares to be had there. I guess UAB cuuld go in and dominate the league being the one bid every year but that gets them no TV games, no ESPN3 games, really nothing. Looking back at the ASun it's really been the temporary stop for teams looking to move up in the world.
If UAB doesn't stay CUSA I really think they are in the MVC