Conference USA Tourney

[whaler11]

This might be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

They are playing games at the same time on Court A and Court B.

It's 'televised' on Facebook and if you click into a game - you can see a black curtain behind some pop up bleachers. This is a D-1 conference has that another game playing at the same time on the other side of the curtain like an over 40 YMCA league.

 

[JMick]

This might be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

They are playing games at the same time on Court A and Court B.

It's 'televised' on Facebook and if you click into a game - you can see a black curtain behind some pop up bleachers. This is a D-1 conference has that another game playing at the same time on the other side of the curtain like an over 40 YMCA league.

yeah that could be us some day so I'm not quite ready to mock it just yet

 

[shizzle787]

What's even sadder is that if you think the bottom 3-4 teams in our conference bring the rest down, the bottom 8-9 bring the top top 3-4 C-USA teams way down. If WKU, ODU, MTSU, and Marshall are even in the A-10, they would at least be bubble teams.

 

[whaler11]

yeah that could be us some day so I'm not quite ready to mock it just yet

I will shoot the program Old Yeller style before there is Court A/Court B.

 

[whaler11]

And if you think wow Facebook that is cutting edge.

There were 1,658 other people watching UTEP and UTSA.

Can’t wait until my wife asks why she is getting ticket offers for the CUSA baseball
tournament.

 

[Robertelamin]

15 years ago CUSA was actually a respectable league. I don't even know who's in it now.

 

[zls44]

This might be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

They are playing games at the same time on Court A and Court B.

The Sun Belt used to do that. It was awesome watching on ESPN3. They'd do a double-box when both games were close late, too.

 

[John]

15 years ago CUSA was actually a respectable league. I don't even know who's in it now.

Conf USA became the AAC, they are us, we are them.

 

[Robertelamin]

Conf USA became the AAC, they are us, we are them.

Pretty much, minus Louisville

 

[UC990411]

15 years ago CUSA was actually a respectable league. I don't even know who's in it now.

We are...the Big East became the AAC and took all the CUSA teams.....

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Any chance the AAC court MTSU? They’d help both basketball and football and their arena always has a great energy. They are geographically central as well.

 

[kobe]

So sad. C-USA was a ton of fun back in the day. UAB was actually good with Mike Anderson, Charlotte was a tourney team with Bobby Lutz, Memphis was a underachieving group of losers with Coach Cal, hell even DePaul was good back then. Was a fun league.

 

[the Q]

Didn’t cusa and the mountain west talk about like a 28 team super conference a few years ago?

 

[UConnRock]

Any chance the AAC court MTSU? They’d help both basketball and football and their arena always has a great energy. They are geographically central as well.

Positives - Natural rival with Memphis. Easy in-and-out as Murfreesboro, TN is about 30 miles from Nashville. Would be a preferred road game for every team in the AAC due to the central location. It would probably help in terms of a TV contract as Murfreesboro is part of the Nashville TV market.

Negatives are competition with SEC, very limited local appeal for their sports (football attendance of 10K-15K for winning team). The directional school stigma also comes into play.

 

[kobe]

Positives - Natural rival with Memphis. Easy in-and-out as Murfreesboro, TN is about 30 miles from Nashville. Would be a preferred road game for every team in the AAC due to the central location. It would probably help in terms of a TV contract as Murfreesboro is part of the Nashville TV market.

Negatives are competition with SEC, very limited local appeal for their sports (football attendance of 10K-15K for winning team). The directional school stigma also comes into play.

The only school the AAC should even consider adding on the basketball side is VCU.

 

[Confident Carl]

This might be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

They are playing games at the same time on Court A and Court B.

It's 'televised' on Facebook and if you click into a game - you can see a black curtain behind some pop up bleachers. This is a D-1 conference has that another game playing at the same time on the other side of the curtain like an over 40 YMCA league.

That reminds me of a Pickle ball court. Ain't it great to be a P6 team!

 

[Confident Carl]

Any chance the AAC court MTSU? They’d help both basketball and football and their arena always has a great energy. They are geographically central as well.

Not a bad team but should the AAC expand, UCONN needs more local rivals. For that reason I would prefer UMASS and/or an Army/VCU package deal.

 

[StunningSteve]

So sad. C-USA was a ton of fun back in the day. UAB was actually good with Mike Anderson, Charlotte was a tourney team with Bobby Lutz, Memphis was a underachieving group of losers with Coach Cal, hell even DePaul was good back then. Was a fun league.

I believe last time Maquette was REALLY good was with Crean and DWade in that version of CUSA. Made a Final 4.
Pitino and Huggins, Lutz, Calipari, Crean, Anderson.. hard to believe it’s on Social media now

 

[CL82]

This might be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

They are playing games at the same time on Court A and Court B.

It's 'televised' on Facebook and if you click into a game - you can see a black curtain behind some pop up bleachers. This is a D-1 conference has that another game playing at the same time on the other side of the curtain like an over 40 YMCA league.

Wow. Even the better AAU games get "the big court."

 

[kobe]

I believe last time Maquette was REALLY good was with Crean and DWade in that version of CUSA. Made a Final 4.
Pitino and Huggins, Lutz, Calipari, Crean, Anderson.. hard to believe it’s on Social media now

Yep, Tom Crean should have to send to a portion of his salary to Wade because he basically got him the Indiana job. To be fair, they did have some success in the Big East under Buzz making at least 1 Elite 8. Also put some guys in the league like Jimmy Butler, Jae Crowder, Darius Johnson-Odom, even Dwight Buycks. Never understood the beef between him and their administration.

 

[the Q]

Yep, Tom Crean should have to send to a portion of his salary to Wade because he basically got him the Indiana job. To be fair, they did have some success in the Big East under Buzz making at least 1 Elite 8. Also put some guys in the league like Jimmy Butler, Jae Crowder, Darius Johnson-Odom, even Dwight Buycks. Never understood the beef between him and their administration.

Steve Novak too.