OT: UT Arlington Joins the WAC

[Techster88]

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I'm hoping TAMU Commerce joins the WAC after clearing transition. The conference will still have 7 Texas schools even after SHSU departs for CUSA.

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

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I'm hoping TAMU Commerce joins the WAC after clearing transition. The conference will still have 7 Texas schools even after SHSU departs for CUSA.

Hmmm, Still no plan to add football? Interesting.

[crixus]

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I'm hoping TAMU Commerce joins the WAC after clearing transition. The conference will still have 7 Texas schools even after SHSU departs for CUSA.

As you probably know, the plan is for WAC football to eventually get back to the FBS level. I hope I'm still alive to see it happen. As far as WAC football goes, I'm rooting for Tarleton State.

[ctrabs74]

Hmmm, Still no plan to add football? Interesting.

UT Arlington has (theoretically) an on-campus stadium that can support football if they wanted to sponsor it (IINM, Arlington ISD plays some of their regular season games at Maverick Stadium). It's a matter of (1) will the administration sign off on it and (2) will the student body support it? Truthfully, I'm skeptical, regardless of what's happening in Edinburg at UT-Rio Grande Valley and their plans for a future football program.

At best, a UT Arlington football program would probably be fifth or sixth fiddle in the (immediate) Dallas-Fort Worth area among FBS/FCS programs behind TCU, SMU, UNT, Tarleton and TAMU-Commerce. And that's not even factoring in the "big boys" in Waco, Austin, Stillwater, etc. It it worth the investment for a potential UT Arlington football program to be a perennial "money game body bag opponent" for their big neighbors in Fort Worth?

[crixus]

In another move, this one on the east coast. Stony Brook, Monmouth and Hampton will all join the Colonial Athletic Association. The CAA recently lost James Madison, but they'll pick up these three programs beginning this July.