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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 3297495, member: 5832"] It's just the fact that again - everyone's primary goal is to leave. Coaches, programs, teams. The whole situation will always be wildly tenuous. The only guy I can see staying and being mostly fine being there would be Hardaway at Memphis and that's really only because he's an alum. Marshall is a good coach, too - but I feel like the right situation pops up and he'll get courted away. Everything else is just kind of up in the air. Houston and Cincinnati are kind of the same program and will always attract the same kind of guy. They've got enough to a national brand to make them appealing to whatever delinquent coach who got canned from a high profile job would be eager to take to rehab their own image - only to either get blasted with sanctions again or just watch said coach walk off for another big program as soon as someone gets desperate enough to hire them. But they'll always be stuck in that 'almost broke through' category forever. Tulsa and Temple will always be in that 'perfectly fine' category where they'll make the tournament once or twice every five years but both have always had obvious limitations that will prevent them from ever being a national power and you'll also have to choke down 2-3 years where one or the other is bleeping terrible. USF and UCF are just a more volatile version of Temple and Tulsa. SMU is back to where they belong I suppose. But who knows, maybe someone comes out of the woodwork and they go on a run again, but that's never going to be national power territory. East Carolina and Tulane absolutely suck, so i'm not even sure what the answer would be there. Although - Tulane has some intangibles being in New Orleans, being a good school, etc. Maybe the right coach works there, but they just had a flipping NBA guy come through and they got WORSE. And then there's always the threat of just losing another team. I think Houston, UCF, Cincinnati and Memphis aren't long for the league.. who knows where they end up, but I don't think they'll be in the American in five years. My guess is when the Big XII finally gets two to the back of the head, they end up in some Frankenstein conference with whatever driftwood floats down the river from that.. But it's crazy to say this conference is ever in a good place. [/QUOTE]

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