

I’m fully confident in him, as well as our commissioner of the Southland Conference and the rest of the presidents.” Daryl Burckel has led the Southland Conference Presidents in their surge to assure us that we’ll be in a good place. It’ll be fun,” said McNeese coach Frank Wilson. I’m excited about playing this season with the two-team schedule and the three guys we are going to play twice a year kind of mimics that is the NFL, so I’m anxious to do that. We are going to be on television on a regular basis and we think those are some key selling points.”īurnett said that while there isn’t a timeframe, within the next 30 to 60 days, the Southland should have a good sense of what the conference will look like in 2022.Īs it pertains to this season, thanks to only six football-playing schools, the SLC, for the first time ever in modern college football, will play each other more than once in the regular season. We are going to do the right things academically. “Hey, we are going to be sound geographically. “You know I think certainly we are at a challenging point right now and I think within every challenge there’s an opportunity and just like it’s happened before there’s an opportunity to build back the conference and that’s part of the sales pitch to others in our region,” said Southland Commissioner Tom Burnett. Houston, TX (KPLC) - College football season is right around the corner so it’s time for Media Days and the big question around the Southland Conference is the future of the league now that a number of schools like Sam Houston State and Lamar have departed.
