Meanwhile in Beaumont

So, I read that the Harvard on the Neches( Lamar), Sam Houston, SFA, Abilene Christian, are leaving the Southland Conference and are joining the Western Athletic Conference. (WAC)

I read the press release, and you have to " read between the lines" to figure out what is going on. 

Originally, the universities were not going to leave until 2022 to join the WAC. But the Louisiana colleges( Nichols, Southeastern Louisiana, Northwestern State, McNeese) in the Southland got together and kicked out the 4 Texas schools Summer, 2021.

The press release discusses how this will improve the WAC's basketball status. And the WAC is an odd conference right now as they no longer, as of right now, play football, but have stuff like swimming and soccer. ( Several schools in the WAC are affiliate schools and only play one or two sports because their football/basketball conference doesn't play those sports.....Example, the Air Force Academy plays soccer in the WAC because the the Mountain West Conference doesn't play soccer.)

With the addition of the "Texas Four" WAC plans to start playing football at the Football Championship Subdivision level( The old I-AA, now FCS) in 2021. ( The teams would be the Texas 4, Tarleton State in Stephenville, Dixie State( Utah school) and Southern Utah in this new football conference.

And then there was a sentence thrown in there...." With plans of moving into Football Bowl Subdivsion(FBS)" in a few years....Already New Mexico State, a WAC member, plays as an independent in the FBS. 

There you go. The move was about football. Want to play with the " Big Boys." 

Want to get Texas A&M, or the University of Texas, or heck, the University of Alabama to invite them to Tuscaloosa, or LSU invite them to Baton Rouge generally for a "payday."( It would be nice if the Lamar, or Sam, or SFA, or ACU band got to go, but this is about raising money for football...And the band travel would " Eat into the profit.") And a good ole fashion "ass-whoopin' ." ( "Lamar is down to their 4th string quarterback and good  news folks, the first-string quarterback's neck was NOT broken.")

It's about money folks. It's about perhaps one day getting to play in a bowl game. 

In the end folks....ALWAYS, " Follow the money."