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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3433671, member: 1414"] Look, why the disparagement on both sides here? There are no community colleges in the American. Not even close. Most of those schools are above average compared to where most students go to college. They are all better than CCSU, SCSU and the hundreds of colleges like them that most real people attend. Lets try not to be a bunch of pompous asses. The Big East is better for basketball, clearly. But pretending that the American stinks is just wrong. Several teams In the AAC have proud basketball histories. In the Big East almost all do. I blame our fans in part for being so parochial and narrow minded. It’s marginally better for soccer, and much better for travel. Probably better for track etc. It‘s much worse for baseball. Unfortunately that’s the sport we’ve actually been best at lately. Mostly, I think going independent in football helps our brand. Randy will need to actually win a game or two to make that work, but we are being treated more like a P5 now than before. There is a certain cache to independent status, especially if we become one of the few that can land a TV contract. Notre Dame and BYU is good company. That ability to show value positions us better than the AAC could. [/QUOTE]