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Message: [QUOTE="StunningSteve, post: 2670742, member: 7895"] This ^^ The AAC is actually coming along very nicely with Dan Hurley, Gregg Marshall, Mick Cronin, Kelvin Sampson, Tim Jankovich, Frank Haith, Penny Hardaway, Aaron McKie, Johnny Dawkins, Brian Gregory, Joe Dooley (likely), Mike Dunleavy. The NBE just lost another of their best coaches. So, now, they look like this: Jay Wright, Travis Steele, LaVall Jordan, Chris Mullin, Patrick Ewing, Steve Wojciechowski, Kevin Willard, former Tulsa assistant Dave Leitao, Ed Cooley, Greg McDermott College basketball is a coach driven business. Comparing the rosters of coaches, the new Big East has "continuity hired" themselves into more mediocre March showings. Hurley and Penny have been needed at UConn and Memphis for a long time. It is essentially the recent performances of those two schools that affect perception. As it is now, without a strong Memphis/UConn, the AAC is likely a 5 bid conference this year sans injuries at SMU and UCF. It's not a sprint. Congrats to the NBE on their recent run, but the 3 A10 programs pulled a lot of C7 dead weight, and now the fruits of that run are at Louisville, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, etc. Instead of leveraging a star coach like Gregg Marshall, they hire guys that no other school would want. I'm curious to see how the next 5 years will go with the new batch of coaches in place. I'm curious to see what Memphis would be with a James Wiseman, or SMU with a Tyrese Maxey. Or UConn next year.. FOOTBALL drives revenue in college sports. I'm looking forward to seeing how the next television contract will reflect a conference that finished with 3 Teams in the Top 25 in FB and MBB. I wish UConn were one of those teams. Only Nova and Xavier made the list and Chris Mack leveraged a better job out of that deal. [/QUOTE]

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