Does Iamarino have a clue what's going on?

John Iamarino says SoCon has 'good options'

"We have good options," the commish said during last week's NCAA tournament at Rupp Arena as he watched Davidson drop a heartbreaker at the buzzer to Marquette.

"If Appalachian State and Georgia Southern do leave, we have a number of quality institutions who have inquired about our league. We'll be fine."

In fact, Iamarino envisions a league that will be better than fine, one built to embrace basketball at least as much as football.

"No matter how much success we've had in football, and we've had a lot of it, FCS football doesn't pay off on a national level the way winning games in the NCAA tournament does for you," he said.

"Unfortunately, it's becoming more and more evident that the one common component of the mid-majors who've had some of the greatest success in basketball -- Gonzaga, Butler, Davidson -- is that they don't play scholarship football. It's difficult to find a FCS program that's also successful in basketball."


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