Three years ago, the league that has been home to Miner Athletics for 19 years, Conference USA, was at the center of a heart-shattering breakup with nine perennial teams.
At the snap of a finger, the American League took home the University of Texas at San Antonio, North Texas, Rice, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Less than a week after the fall out, Brett McMurphy from Action Network revealed that Southern Missouri, and Old Dominion had officially joined the Sun Belt Conference, whilst Marshall was in the process of completing the last steps towards membership.