At the end of the day, there’s nothing you can control to know what the future looks like,” White said. You sit around and you know ‘would I make this transition if I had x’ or whatever it may be. It’s not just athletics, but it’s a lot of things in life. “It’s not beneficial for us to be sitting around thinking about outcomes. Brian White (left) and men’s soccer head coach Joey Worthen (right). A change of scenery allows it to face stronger competition while negotiating improved television contracts that gives them more televised games and name recognition, which is of utmost importance for an institution wanting to gain profits and to stand out from everyone else.Īfter pausing briefly when asked about what it would take to leave C-USA, the conference which FAU currently affiliates itself with, White maintained that they are proud partners with the conference and want to do everything they can to make it better. Leaving a conference indicates that a university believes it is capable of finding a better deal somewhere else. We want to be the very best athletic partner we can possibly be to represent the university.” “But I do know the conversations we have at FAU are all about how we can be as good as we can possibly be competitively, within our facility space, within our student-athlete experience. “It’s just hard to predict how everything plays out and the big dominoes and where they fall,” White said. Going to happen, they’re not telling the whole story because nobody knows, including the decision-makers. He said that if anybody says they know exactly what’s
White stated that FAU is always monitoring the landscape of college athletics.
With the rumors of changing conferences or potential mergers becoming widespread, Athletics Director Brian White explained FAU’s stance on the topic. This came a month after the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas announced they were departing the Big 12 for the SEC by July 1, 2025.
In August, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten, and Pac-12 formed a coalition to combat the expanding powerhouse that is the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In the ever-evolving world of college football, conference realignment and thoughts of leaving one conference for another have been on the minds of many teams.
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