OT: The American

[WNConn]

The problem is that there’s really nowhere for Temple or Memphis to go

 

[Chin Diesel]

No one will make SMU a road trip.



If you think they are still getting $6M a year (spoilers…they never were), you have not been paying attention.


You are a font of bad takes.

It was like Tulane in AAC. You don't want to do the road trip but if life throws you a lemon you get a cheap flight and a fun weekend.

 

[shizzle787]

No one will make SMU a road trip.



If you think they are still getting $6M a year (spoilers…they never were), you have not been paying attention.


You are a font of bad takes.

Nothing I said was wrong. The legacy AAC schools are getting 6 million going forward. The C-USA6 that are joining are getting about half of that. This has been reported.

 

[shizzle787]

I suspect there is a composition clause that has reduced the cost of leaving at this point.

There is not. It is still 10 million.

 

[August_West]

How in the world does SMU get into a power conference before us. That’s just so sad, watch USF be next.

I mean you answered your own question

 

[August_West]

No one will make SMU a road trip.



If you think they are still getting $6M a year (spoilers…they never were), you have not been paying attention.


You are a font of bad takes.

You’ve been shizzle’d

 

[HooperScooper]

Yeah, except SMU is a private school with a multi billion endowment and boosters who will stroke a check for anything.

I don't know how generous their boosters are but there are about 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students at SMU and their endowment is about $2 billion. Not huge by endowment standards these days. Tulane is also a private school which has about the same number of undergraduate and graduate students with a similar approximately $2 billion endowment. Hasn't done much for them.

Just for a reference point on endowments, my son is at a small school with less than 2000 students and their endowment is $1.3 billion. And that's a D3 school.

 

[zls44]

I would pay $10,000 for a recording of Aresco asking Air Force and Colorado State "would you guys like to join us THIS TIME, now that we're worse?"

 

[CL82]

I would pay $10,000 for a recording of Aresco asking Air Force and Colorado State "would you guys like to join us THIS TIME, now that we're worse?"

He was brought in for his expertise in television deals. He’s just biding his time waiting to win the big one.

 

[zls44]

He was brought in for his expertise in television deals. He’s just biding his time waiting to win the big one.

but A BILLION DOLLAR TV DEAL!!!

 

[Tenspro2002]

but A BILLION DOLLAR TV DEAL!!!

lol wasn't it like a billion dollars over 12 years divided over 12 schools?

 

[alphasigko]

Replacing Houston, Central Florida and Cincinnati in the AAC will be UAB, Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, UTSA, Rice and North Texas.

American will essentially be Confernce USA in July.

So.Happy we left that nightmare!

 

[drayenob]

Power8 (almost 9)

 

[nelsonmuntz]

PAC 12 should take SDSU and Boise, not SMU.

 

[alphasigko]

PAC 12 should take SDSU and Boise, not SMU.

AAC lookin' for Dallas $. Business decision. Boise deos not qualify... In the League's eyes that is too small of a market....

 

[Rocktheworld]

PAC 12 should take SDSU and Boise, not SMU.

Would make most regional sense I agree, but Texas recruiting

 

[willie99]

Thank god we bailed when we did.

But if we didn't, would we have received an invite in the latest rounds of expansion? Probably not because football was so bad, but Mora changes that

Having said that, we're a basketball school and I'm a basketball man, so I love the Big East

 

[HuskyHawk]

My guy. Things have happened while you we’re sleeping…



Completely baffled and yet not baffled. It’s an inventory move - San Diego State makes sense and then they just need one more for inventory. SMU was the prettiest corpse in the morgue, so they’re gonna get in.

I am not sure Arizona, Oregon and Washington have anywhere to go other than to the Big 12….and they’d be signing up for trips to Houston, Cincy and Orlando, so they’re probably better off just enduring the every other year trip to Dallas.

Wild isn't it? If the Big XII knew UCLA and UCS were going B1G, they wouldn't have expanded with those schools, and the Arizona Schools, Utah and Colorado would be going to the Big XII, or they do a full merger.

As for SMU it's academics are good, the student body is wealthy, and it has won a NC in football. Dallas isn't that far away.

 

[businesslawyer]

7 million dollars

The $7M won’t be there with the next contract. But your point is valid — the time to move is when they are not getting the $7M.

When that time comes, we will be playing Temple every year in football, just like UMass.

 

[businesslawyer]

Is anyone else completely baffled by this move? Pls don’t say Dallas metro….. I get it, but SMU screams our league is on the path to being the next Big 12……Have to think this pushes the remaining cream of the crop (zona, oregon, washington) faster out the door as soon as they can find a lifeboat…. if they can.

Why would they invite a team that makes it more likely that they would want out?

 

[businesslawyer]

I think Army is the first school the AAC reaches out to. I think Army declines. I then think they will try for Air Force and Colorado State again. I think that will also fail. Buffalo and UMass would both like to join, but I don't see it. I assume the #14 team will be Texas State, Georgia State, or a C-USA school.

No one is leaving Mountain West for the AAC. Mountain West makes much more sense as a conference, and when the next TV contract comes will make similar money (if it doesn’t now).

 

[giddyup]

How in the world does SMU get into a power conference before us. That’s just so sad, watch USF be next.

Much stronger base of alumni support ($1.5B vs $450 M) in a premium market (Dallas) and a major air hub. And yes, USF and Memphis will be next. If it was based on “old fashion” metrics where academic reputation, flagship, and HHI mattered, we would be among the cream of the crop.

 

[metsfan2323]

No one is leaving Mountain West for the AAC. Mountain West makes much more sense as a conference, and when the next TV contract comes will make similar money (if it doesn’t now).

at this point the MWC might be able to steal Memphis if they were so inclined.

 

[Fishy]

Wild isn't it? If the Big XII knew UCLA and UCS were going B1G, they wouldn't have expanded with those schools, and the Arizona Schools, Utah and Colorado would be going to the Big XII, or they do a full merger.

As for SMU it's academics are good, the student body is wealthy, and it has won a NC in football. Dallas isn't that far away.

No, they still had to expand with those four.

But they are absolutely going to make another full court press now to raid the Pac12.

 

[SoFla Steve]

I've been intrigued by the Temple situation for a while now but they seem content. I don't know why.

Still, nothing stupefies me more than the L-ville move. SMU - don't forget Rhett Lashlee, and this guy. Anyway, if you ain't P2, you're last.

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You should read their board. They (fans) aren't happy at all. In fact, they're waiting for an ACC/B1G invite to get them out of what I think is a hopeless situation.