Bye Bye AAC

[temery]

Improves? Lol

based on our past performance, absolutely.

 

[navery12]

Based on past performance, the AAC improves with UConn leaving. I haven't understood the complaints that the league did us in.

 

[KingAG]

based on our past performance, absolutely.

So who do they replace us with? Let’s say at the worst over our tenure we were an average, middle of the pack AAC team. Losing us for nothing doesn’t “improve” the conference. They lose their flagship program and any semblance of relevance that came with it. I mean we won a NC for the conference. They aren’t getting better with our departure. At best they’ll be unaffected

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

based on our past performance, absolutely.

Over the 7 years in the league:

Conference Median Team Ranking: 115
Conference Average Team Ranking: 127

UConn's Mean Ranking: 73
UConn's Average Ranking: 77

UConn finished in the half in the conference (Kenpom) 5/7 years.

The AAC is not getting better without UConn.

 

[CL82]

Based on past performance, the AAC improves with UConn leaving. I haven't understood the complaints that the league did us in.

Brand, travel cost and wear and tear on the staff and players, and fan interest all took a beating the American. Yeah it overlapped the Ollie years and the climb back, but the damage done happened independent of our struggles during the post 2014 part of that era.

 

[temery]

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The AAC is not getting better without UConn.

nor is anyone disappointed in our exit. Other than one good year, post season, UConn did very little for the AAC. And I don't blame the AAC for any of UConn problems.

 

[KingAG]

nor is anyone disappointed in our exit. Other than one good year, post season, UConn did very little for the AAC. And I don't blame the AAC for any of UConn problems.

We had more than “1 good year”. Secondly we gave the AAC credibility. PERIOD. The AAC is now completely irrelevant. I’m 1000% sure that Cincy and Memphis are not happy with our exit. The AAC is not “responsible” for our struggles.....BUT........the AAC brought us ZERO benefits.

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

nor is anyone disappointed in our exit. Other than one good year, post season, UConn did very little for the AAC. And I don't blame the AAC for any of UConn problems.

UConn made more money for the AAC in Men's Basketball via Post Season payouts than any other school.

 

[CL82]

nor is anyone disappointed in our exit. Other than one good year, post season, UConn did very little for the AAC. And I don't blame the AAC for any of UConn problems.

FWIW, coaches have said otherwise. A more interesting question will be if ESPN renegotiates the terms of the American media contract. Since the contact is very low value, especially net of production costs, they may not.

 

[superjohn]

So who do they replace us with? Let’s say at the worst over our tenure we were an average, middle of the pack AAC team. Losing us for nothing doesn’t “improve” the conference. They lose their flagship program and any semblance of relevance that came with it. I mean we won a NC for the conference. They aren’t getting better with our departure. At best they’ll be unaffected

He's trolling, or at least I hope he is.

 

[Rocktheworld]

nor is anyone disappointed in our exit. Other than one good year, post season, UConn did very little for the AAC. And I don't blame the AAC for any of UConn problems.

Lmao yeah just cut out all the actual objective analysis that clearly demonstrates we were one of the better teams in the conference.

So, if we are addition-by-subtraction, why would a clearly-better NBE want us?

 

[temery]

He's trolling, or at least I hope he is.

I'm not at all trolling. Our past performance may have given the AAC some credibility. Outside of this, we were avg at best during our tenure.

 

[temery]

Lmao yeah just cut out all the actual objective analysis that clearly demonstrates we were one of the better teams in the conference.

So, if we are addition-by-subtraction, why would a clearly-better NBE want us?

Our future is more promising than what we delivered to the AAC. We were expected to lead the AAC to relevancy. We never delivered.

 

[CL82]

Our future is more promising than what we delivered to the AAC. We were expected to lead the AAC to relevancy. We never delivered.

 

[temery]

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exactly

 

[Rocktheworld]

Our future is more promising than what we delivered to the AAC. We were expected to lead the AAC to relevancy. We never delivered.

This is completely different from “the AAC will be better without UConn.”

 

[BugsyCT]

Our future is more promising than what we delivered to the AAC. We were expected to lead the AAC to relevancy. We never delivered.

Well, they did catch us at the lowest possible time for our major sports programs in a long time. Football was falling apart and after another miracle NCAA title run in 2014 we never got back anywhere near that level. Geno's teams did just fine but have also dropped off the last 3-4 years.

 

[dvegas]

to repurpose Sal Marciano "happiness is the AAC in my rear-view mirror"

 

[John]

Well, they did catch us at the lowest possible time for our major sports programs in a long time. Football was falling apart and after another miracle NCAA title run in 2014 we never got back anywhere near that level. Geno's teams did just fine but have also dropped off the last 3-4 years.

baseball brought quality to the table too. Men's soccer is muddling along, but I don't think that's a conference issue.

 

[KingAG]

To put it into poker vernacular, joining the AAC was similar to buying into a satellite tournament: If you played your cards right, you could still make the final table. UConn, after the 2014 championship, became the fish at the table and constantly complained about the dealers. The AAC was and still is a decent league. No need to disparage that league because poor decisions were made by UConn officials.

The AAC is now a mid major league. They’re CofUSA. It’s not disparaging to tell the truth

 

[KingAG]

SMU is a very highly rated university in one of wealthiest and most important areas of the country, Houston is the major university in oil rich Houston, UCf has the largest enrollment in Florida. USF dominates Tampa/ST.Pete. These are major universities in major important states. They have political and economic power. It is only a matter of time before they will be p5 either together or seperately.

LOL

 

[Zissou]

SMU is a very highly rated university in one of wealthiest and most important areas of the country, Houston is the major university in oil rich Houston, UCf has the largest enrollment in Florida. USF dominates Tampa/ST.Pete. These are major universities in major important states. They have political and economic power. It is only a matter of time before they will be p5 either together or seperately.

Oil is like $30 / barrel

 

[Rocktheworld]

SMU is a very highly rated university in one of wealthiest and most important areas of the country, Houston is the major university in oil rich Houston, UCf has the largest enrollment in Florida. USF dominates Tampa/ST.Pete. These are major universities in major important states. They have political and economic power. It is only a matter of time before they will be p5 either together or seperately.

 

[DFW HOYA]

Of the seven original Big East schools, five of them are now in the current alignment (BC and Syracuse excepted). Add Villanova who joined in 1980, and it's six of eight.

Welcome back.

 

[Scot-e]

Omg- I nearly forgot how much I hate G-Town. Pe-Towey- I spit on them.

 

[auggie22]

SMU is a very highly rated university in one of wealthiest and most important areas of the country, Houston is the major university in oil rich Houston, UCf has the largest enrollment in Florida. USF dominates Tampa/ST.Pete. These are major universities in major important states. They have political and economic power. It is only a matter of time before they will be p5 either together or seperately.

thank you for the humor during these trying times.

 

[goskis2018]

SMU is a very highly rated university in one of wealthiest and most important areas of the country, Houston is the major university in oil rich Houston, UCf has the largest enrollment in Florida. USF dominates Tampa/ST.Pete. These are major universities in major important states. They have political and economic power. It is only a matter of time before they will be p5 either together or seperately.

All of the schools you just mentioned are afterthoughts in their respective states. The American is a league filled with off-brand no-name universities, these schools have no power and were embarrassing to be associated with. Good riddance!

 

[Rocktheworld]

I will tell 65,000 students enrolled at UCF and their 130,000 parents and then tell the 50,000 students at USF and their 100,000 parents that you consider them an after thought. Then there are the 5 ,000,000 Texans who call Houston home....

Of all the states you go to, you pick Florida and UF/FSU, and Texas with UT. Just incredible.

 

[goskis2018]

I will tell 65,000 students enrolled at UCF and their 130,000 parents and then tell the 50,000 students at USF and their 100,000 parents that you consider them an after thought. Then there are the 5 ,000,000 Texans who call Houston home....

This goes to the point of the poster above me... the directional Florida schools share a state with the Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles and the Miami Hurricanes, all name-brand schools. The University of Houston is in a pro sports city in a state with 5 P-5 schools in it, including arguably the biggest brand in college athletics in UT. You can go down the line in with the other American conference schools, they are all at best "little brother" brands in their respective states (Cinci/Memphis).

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Well, they did catch us at the lowest possible time for our major sports programs in a long time. Football was falling apart and after another miracle NCAA title run in 2014 we never got back anywhere near that level. Geno's teams did just fine but have also dropped off the last 3-4 years.

Oddly although our regular season performances where never even great we won more AAC tourney games than any other team 2014-17
2014 2-1
2015 3-1
2016 3-0
2017 2-1
2018 0-1
2019 1-1
for an 11-5 Tourney record. We were 10-3 until the last two seasons which is remarkable . Considering regular season disappointments the margins of some of these wins is also surprising. So as far as I’m concerned we can leave with our heads held high.
Because of the uneven regular season that might be a better indicator of our strength vs the league than the regular season or it might be a statistical anomaly.
We also were 7-1 *in NCAA appearances during that time .earning much more NCAA money than anyone.
* That might be more wins than the rest of the AAC combined.