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A Gonzaga member/UConn football only with some guaranteed OOC basketball games might be a good deal for everyone involved

I loved how the team was humming the two weeks Mazzone was here last time

This. The Yard often makes success in college sports some nebulous, mystical, annd unknowable outcome based on hundreds of material and immaterial concepts. It might be a coping mechanism for a decade and a half of being passed over, not sure. Yes, success in college sports is complex, but if...

I’m out of the loop. If FSU bails, are Stamford and Cal looking to back out?

Isn't this exactly the motley crew of schools they quit the first time

Is Red Block C the answer

OC and QB aren't good

UMass, SHU, and one of USF/BC. If they take both, that's great. All of them will be close

With every game, I'm becoming more on-board with American FB-only, if they'll take us

Defense was good once offense got them off the field

I was encouraged by the defense in the second half and generally what they look like after the offense gives them some time on the sideline. Beyond that not much to be pleased by. Let’s see Turner and a new OC

If it’s so easy to schedule P5 games, I’m struggling to see why you wouldn’t take an AAC offer with its eight conference games and schedule the remaining 4 as P5s or 1 P5 1 FCS. We already have 7 G5 games on this year’s calendar

I hate this stat. It's not reality. A shell-shocked fanbase after ten years of perennial losers not showing up due to what was supposed to be hurricane-like conditions is not necessarily an end-all, be-all "reality"

regardless of the conference - I am not thrilled with the idea of playing ECU either - we are losing scheduling opponents and flexibility and are growing increasingly isolated. UMass and UConn being the only two independents (not counting ND) is not good for the program, period.

ugh. the walls are closing in

They would probably raid the MAC before adding UMass if they were dead set on a northern option

I agree with all your points beyond #1. Rosa was very obviously somersaulting and then chucked the ball up - there wasn’t a guy anywhere near him, and he checked before he did it. You can argue whether or not it’s appropriate, but it’s the rule

A lot of the AAC talk has made me wonder. It’s sort of amazing there’s no eastern-northeastern G5. You’d think there would be some interest in having that orientation of school since there were once two BCS conferences and several FCS conferences covering that market. There’s enough schools for...

Bumping up again because it was mentioned in key tweets. The July version of this got us up to 7 yes, 57 NO, 1 partner dependent

I guess. It was an interest issue but I guess I could talk myself back into Temple and USF

I wouldn't go without some kind of northern partner

I tend to agree we would be better suited finding a seat. I was sort of hoping for a CalFord/WSU/OSU frankenPAC though

https://the-boneyard.com/threads/aac-related-thought-experiment.192832/ the yarders were overwhelmingly against when I polled this subject

I don't really know who is left for the AAC to take - the CUSA is pretty brutal looking these days. MTSU/WKU?

Blue lot packed. How’s red lot?

Chick-fil-A is going to be out of sandwiches by the 5 minute mark of Q1

In the near term, it’s essential to get a better TV deal - stream or no stream (prefer stream) - plus negotiate a bowl tie in somewhere. Mid-term, it may be necessary to start trading basketball non-con games for football scheduling depending on if the conferences begin to increase their...

With very very little to show for it. My point was that throwing around “we have the best league” based on recent successes of nobody schools and relying on that as the antidote to realignment is pretty short sighted.

After a few years of being truly dreadful, they stopped sending around the guys in golf carts telling people to stop tailgating. Wonder if they'll be back

let me rephrase in terms you can comprehend: marquette and creighton poopy

They think a conference being held up by a team from Nebraska with no pedigree and annual first round losers from Wisconsin projects sustained success and even dominance long term

I would think they could probably poach some AAC teams at the very least (beyond Navy)

ACC adds Cal, SMU, Stanford. In 2036, Clemson and FSU depart. Intractable differences between the remaining magnificent 7 (more football minded, UNC, NC State, Miami, VA, VT) and the New 3 (west/SMU more academically minded) on who to add lead to further departures: ND decides to head to the...

I tend to agree with what you stated above - UConn should join the frankenstein "best of the rest" conference (PAC-12) football only. I don't think it'll be viewed as "in the club", but it will probably enhance its general reputation

Great point. Not to get into politics, but the recent shift of power in the NY Senate from upstate/LI to the city should remove some of the special/local interests necessary to close down some of the universities in rural areas, concentrating on the bigger centers. It will be a sad day for those...