Dallas is becoming the epicenter of the AAC

[olehead]

Pretty good read on the AAC's decision to move conference headquarters from Providence to Dallas following 2018-19 season.

Slowly but surely, Dallas is becoming epicenter of American Athletic Conference, with HQ move in the cards

 

[Zionn]

Yeah - nice easy ride from Hartford. Please get us out of this dumpster one day.

 

[Adios]

There's obviously not enough schools around here in the conference to make Providence remain a worthwhile location for headquarters. The headquarters are in Providence due to Gavitt, anyway. Those days are long gone. Dallas is a reasonable location for the AAC headquarters.

Funny thing is that the Catholic schools were the first powers of the old Big East that made it popular. We rode their backs into developing what we are now, as much as we'd hate to admit it.

 

[Fishy]

I don’t care where the conference gets its mail.

 

[Exit 4]

Yeah - nice easy ride from Hartford. Please get us out of this dumpster one day.

I think this is a mighty fine dumpster. Best dumpster around, bar none. The next dumpster after this far more wretched.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

There's obviously not enough schools around here in the conference to make Providence remain a worthwhile location for headquarters. The headquarters are in Providence due to Gavitt, anyway. Those days are long gone. Dallas is a reasonable location for the AAC headquarters.

Funny thing is that the Catholic schools were the first powers of the old Big East that made it popular. We rode their backs into developing what we are now, as much as we'd hate to admit it.

None of the “Catholics “ were really national players prior to the media savvy Big East forming.
Although Eastern teams made the FF , Eastern Basketball was as scandal ridden weak sister .
The last Eastern team to win a NC was Lasalle in 1954 .
Gavitt’s brainstorm resurrected Eastern Basketball. All the Members were the beneficiaries of that remarkable achievement. Georgetown was the first to win but that championship was more. representative of a new power paradigm, rather than an individual team.
UConn was stuck with a decent small time coach in big time league.
Their potential was constrained but that’s another story.

 

[navery12]

There's a whole multitude of reasons I want us to get out of the AAC. Where they have their HQ is so far down I don't even see it

 

[UConnSwag11]

There's obviously not enough schools around here in the conference to make Providence remain a worthwhile location for headquarters. The headquarters are in Providence due to Gavitt, anyway. Those days are long gone. Dallas is a reasonable location for the AAC headquarters.

Funny thing is that the Catholic schools were the first powers of the old Big East that made it popular. We rode their backs into developing what we are now, as much as we'd hate to admit it.

Rode their backs? How?

 

[Hoophound]

If we rode their backs, they rode ours a heck of a lot longer and harder.

 

[olehead]

I don’t care where the conference gets its mail.

We care.

Regards,

Jim Calhoun,
and all of us big-time NE recruits you could have gotten if you guys were in a legit conference.

 

[methodology]

Last year of the best media day in college football. Bye bye Newport

 

[weyuo]

Makes sense when it's obvious to everyone concerned that UConn and Cincy will be gone as soon as they get a P-5 invite. The AAC is still too new to the scene for any one school in the league to not accept an invite rather than stay and help solidify what will most likely become the 6th power conference. It's a good conference but you only have UConn, Cincy, Temple and Navy in the North. That doesn't make it easy on any of those school's fan bases for a number of reasons(travel, regional rivals, ect).

The epicenter for the league is not in New England. So you trade lobster for steak at the annual party. Win a few National Championships and earn a better TV deal and you can fly those lobsters in on the same chartered flight the UConn contingent shows up on.

 

[businesslawyer]

We care.

Regards,

Jim Calhoun,
and all of us big-time NE recruits you could have gotten if you guys were in a legit conference.

And keeping the conference offices in Providence helps us recruit big time players exactly how?

 

[BlueMAB]

We care.

Regards,

Jim Calhoun,
and all of us big-time NE recruits you could have gotten if you guys were in a legit conference.

the next time a recruit mentions the location of the conference headquarters as a factor in his recruitment will be the first.

 

[Adios]

Rode their backs? How?

They were the catalysts for the formation of the Big East and they were the ones, along with Syracuse, who were making Final Fours before us and were responsible for the strength of the conference.

Precisely why fans of other old Big East schools hate us so much. Such as Syracuse. Also a reason why we are still in the AAC.

 

[BlueMAB]

They were the catalysts for the formation of the Big East and they were the ones, along with Syracuse, who were making Final Fours before us and were responsible for the strength of the conference.

Precisely why fans of other old Big East schools hate us so much. Such as Syracuse. Also a reason why we are still in the AAC.

LOL

We were one of the original members of the Big East. We struggled early, but from 1989 until the catholics left, we were the dominant program winning 10 regular season titles, and 8 conference tournaments in 16 years.

Football is the reason we're in the AAC.

 

[Adios]

LOL

We were one of the original members of the Big East. We struggled early, but from 1989 until the catholics left, we were the dominant program winning 10 regular season titles, and 8 conference tournaments in 16 years.

Football is the reason we're in the AAC.

LOL

"The original Big East Conference was founded in 1979, when Providence College basketball coach Dave Gavitt spearheaded an effort to assemble an east coast basketball-centric collegiate athletic conference.[10] The core of the Big East formed when Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Connecticut (UConn), Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College (BC). Holy Cross turned down the invitation, as did Rutgers initially, while BC, Seton Hall, and UConn accepted."

 

[Palatine]

Anywhere but Providence.

 

[BlueMAB]

LOL

"The original Big East Conference was founded in 1979, when Providence College basketball coach Dave Gavitt spearheaded an effort to assemble an east coast basketball-centric collegiate athletic conference.[10] The core of the Big East formed when Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Connecticut (UConn), Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College (BC). Holy Cross turned down the invitation, as did Rutgers initially, while BC, Seton Hall, and UConn accepted."

What part of that contradicts anything in my post?

 

[uconnfan68]

Anywhere but Providence.

Anywhere Mike Aresco chooses to live is the correct answer.

 

[olehead]

the next time a recruit mentions the location of the conference headquarters as a factor in his recruitment will be the first.

The response to the AAC by a recruit, Who?

 

[StunningSteve]

The power brokers of CFB are in Dallas. Not Providence. And football is what drives revenue.

Using this as some kind of indictment is obtuse. This conference needs to get as close to these committees as possible.

It’s a metropolitan conference. Dallas fits the identity of the majority of the members. Using regionalism is stupid when we’re talking about national cities. If the conference had a rural identity, it may be another story.

 

[MTHusky]

LOL

"The original Big East Conference was founded in 1979, when Providence College basketball coach Dave Gavitt spearheaded an effort to assemble an east coast basketball-centric collegiate athletic conference.[10] The core of the Big East formed when Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Connecticut (UConn), Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College (BC). Holy Cross turned down the invitation, as did Rutgers initially, while BC, Seton Hall, and UConn accepted."

IIRC we were only invited to join the Big East after Holy Cross turned the invite down.

 

[MattMang23]

We care.

Regards,

Jim Calhoun,
and all of us big-time NE recruits you could have gotten if you guys were in a legit conference.

Good morning, Jim. How is your day going so far?

 

[olehead]

And keeping the conference offices in Providence helps us recruit big time players exactly how?

Really businesslawyer? The move is indicia of a deemphasis of the AAC representing the remnant of the old Big East. It's an indicator of a move away from the NE. This will certainly impact marketing, and eventually this conference will begin to have the feel of Conderence USA 2.0. That was really the point. I know that's a really tough logical leap for you and Wing u Conn given how great our recruiting and retention of recruits has been without the last three seasons. Oh yeah, winning, our winning sort of blurs this point as well over the course of the past three years. Blame it on Ollie though, right? Hurley will turn it around. At least Cincinnati continues to win though, so maybe it's not the conference, maybe it's Storrs. Hard to bring a great recruit to Storrs. Oh wait, I think we brought in a few decent recruits in the OBE, won a few games and had a little bit of success as well. Ask a four star recruit would you rather play in the AAC or the NBE, they would say of course the ACC. You then correct them and tell them, no the AAC, to which they say, who?