Against all odds, conference preview season is upon us once more – and what better place to begin than with Conference USA, which is really only a conference by the loosest possible definition. Does it have teams? Yes, nine of them. Do those nine teams have any regional or historical ties? Not really. Do they want to be here? Certainly not. But, they’re stuck with each other for at least this season, and that means we’re stuck with them too. Let’s get this out of the way (part two coming Wednesd…