Conference USA rebuilds by adding small schools

((ht: cbssports.com/mcmurphy))

Well, we guess this means the Conference USA/Mountain West Super Conference merger is dead on arrival.

That's because C-USA announced that they are adding teams. Six of them to be exact. Though we might add most are not exactly household names.

The list includes: Florida International, Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Texas-San Antonio, Charlotte and Old Dominion.

For those keeping track, that would be a raid of the Sun Belt, the Patriot League and the WAC.

Read more details from Brett McMurphy of CBSSports.com, McMurphy broke the story RIGHT HERE

Interesting stuff, but hardly earth shaking news. Kudos to C-USA for trying to rebuild after being nearly decimated by the Big East. However, other than adding to their travel costs, this doesn't do much to add to the league's prestige.

In fact, it does very little for football...right now. Charlotte is about to enter FCS (1-AA) next year as a rookie program. The others have a footprint, but not a particularly large one. But it does protect the conference if for no other reason than the sheer size. Come 2013, C-USA will have 14-teams.

Here's the report from WAVY-TV in Norfolk about the idea...

ODU may be considered for C-USA: wavy.com