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[QUOTE="BlueDogs, post: 2275108, member: 891"]
The irony is the AAC is not a bad conference in terms of competitive football or basketball.  It's just an abomination because it is a loose collection of misfit toys with no natural rivalries, no history and nothing unique about it.  UConn stands at the top of the heap as a school that totally out classes the others as a public flagship university.

The sad part is the conference leadership has no vision.  They need to build a western division and combine with the MW into a true national coast to coast super conference.  This gives them control over a lot of football content and much better negotiating leverage. Throw in BYU in the mix, and there are 24 teams representing  lot of eye balls.  It also allows for much better bowl affiliation leverage because they would control 20% of the FBS landscape.

This won't happen because merger would mean elimination of large duplicative conference administrative and executive paychecks.  The AAC can put out out a just good enough product that the executives are making great money on their gig.
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