AAC lack of Top 25 worthy programs

[DefenseBB]

In the four years of the AAC, South Florida has made three straight trips to the NCAA Tournament, reaching the second round (Round of 32) in two of those three years.

This year, South Florida currently (as of February 6, 2018) ranks 27th in RPI.

This year, both Houston (#44) and UCF (#47) currently rank among the Top 50 schools in RPI (as of February 6, 2018). To me, this shows development and growth of other programs.

Cam, thanks for your very logical and diligent reply. I edited your response address the remaining pieces I left.
1. I think Massey does a significantly better job evaluating so here are the numbers
USF- 29, UCF 69, Houston-71, Tulane-125, Cincinatti-138, Wichita St-143, Temple-183 and it goes down hill fast from there.
2. USF is absolutely the next best program. That said, their record against other top 25 is brutal. Add in the fact Jose's only success in consistent recruiting has been Euro's and I am not impressed. He's given and spent a ton of money with mediocre, at best, results. Why can't he find more Courtney Williams' and give more American Girls opportunities for an education and be competitive.
2. KAH is awesome and will build that program up until she leaves for P5 school in the very near future. Her style will be brutal as she can't compete with the higher talent pool so she will focus on defense and musclizing the opponent. Think of it as a poor man's Mizzou. That said, they are still not good this year in OOC. NIT is probably their destination due to the low Massey score
3. Houston at 71 started out strong and had his moments and looks somewhat promising. Still can't win against any of the 4th, 5th or 6th place teams in other P5 conferences.
4. The great thing about ESPN is when you go to the standings, select a school and see their current wins/losses on the left, to the right you see the standings in conference and below that the recruiting. You can see the evaluation score of the committed players 0-100. The higher the score the better as Top 20 players are usually >96 and the studs at 98/99. The numbers are not good for up and coming players of the top 275 players signed on Hoopgurlz- USF 1 player 89 (at least she's from Virginia!); UCF 1 player 92; Hou 1 player 90; Tulane 2 players 89/90; Wichita St 0; Cincinatti 0; SMU 3 players 2-89/90; none of the other schools have anyone signed.

If you were to ask me to be positive on this view, I like UCF but she will be gone shortly, I like SMU actually quite a bit with Travis Mays in year 2 and the aforementioned Hughey is looking promising.
The rest of the lot have been at their schools a while and we know what they are-Stockton 488-249 at Tulane 24 years;
Jamelle 94-149;
Tanya 188-109;
Heather Macy at East Caro 8 years 118-102;
Memphis' Melissa McFerrin 161-146 in year 10;
Tulsa's Matilda Mossan 89-116 in year 7;
Ronald Hughey 36-49 in year 3;
Mays 27-30 year 2;

The real issue is will a school commit to the program and allow a coach to evolve and STAY. If so, I like Houston, SMU and UCF and maybe even Jose...nah, no chance on that happening....

 

[PJCLaw]

Neither ND or Lou were part of the original BE, and their respective decisions to leave the conference for the greener pastures of the ACC is one of the major reasons why the BE folded and then morphed into a mid-major Catholic school basketball conference in WBB.

The reference wasn't to the "Original" BE, but the "old BE" which was the last version before the Catholic 7 created the "New BE"! Immediately before the old BE folded both ND and Louisville were perennial top 5-10 contenders who UCONN played yearly.

The previous poster commented about what teams UCONN played that were ranked in the top 5 or top 10 but he was not talking about the "Original" BE, but merely the old BE that just folded after Stewie's freshman year! I hope this explanation helps!

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

The only reasonable answer is to get in a P5 conference. The gap between P5 and other D1 conferences, overall, will continue to widen except for a string basketball league that doesn't have FBS Football, like the Big East. Would you guys sacrifice football back to FCS to get back into the Big East?