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If Mtn West and Sun Belt are smart, they are meeting right now to make offers to the best of the remaining AAC teams.
MW: SMU, Memphis, Wichita
SB: Memphis & USF
 
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Vowelguy said:
If Mtn West and Sun Belt are smart, they are meeting right now to make offers to the best of the remaining AAC teams.
MW: SMU, Memphis, Wichita
SB: Memphis & USF
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Will this finally be the nail in the coffin for the Big East/AAC Football Conference? Temple, ECU and Navy can join our new Independent/Northeast Conference with UCONN, UMass, Army, Liberty . . .

Congrats to Cincy and Houston for their move to Still G5.
 
Exit 4 said:
McMurphy is usually rather credible… but while they might invite- whose bidding the new media deal and what is it???????

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The Big 12's current deal with Fox and ESPN runs another four years. I believe most media deals include composition clauses that allow each party (the conference and its media partners) to negotiate contract changes based on the expected changes.

That process probably cannot begin until its certain when teams are to be added and lost.
 
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When you look at this the three American additions makes sense. Cincinnati gives WV a long needed drivable game, UH maintains the TX presence and UCF gives the B12 a Florida presence.
 
Most of the additions make sense. The infatuation these conferences have with UCF or USF, though, is baffling. Trash schools that are on the absolute bottom wrung in the state for both sports and academics.
 
tzznandrew said:
Most of the additions make sense. The infatuation these conferences have with UCF or USF, though, is baffling. Trash schools that are on the absolute bottom wrung in the state for both sports and academics.
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Better access to Florida recruiting is apparently worth admitting them.
 
BYU always seemed a much better fit for the PAC12 than big12. Zags and Shockers can't be too happy.
 
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CL82 said:
Better access to Florida recruiting is apparently worth admitting them.
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I mean, I'm not sure it has really helped any of the conferences. Their benefit is chimerical. Good recruits in Florida are going to go to Florida, FSU, or Miami before UCF (or USF), and then you add in the SEC schools. I just do not believe one Florida recruit played football at an American Conference school because of playing UCF and USF once a year.

I mean, every conference that has taken them has done so reactively, and they're usually conferences that we don't particularly respect with regards to leadership.
 
Sorry, but all of this looks like the proverbial re arranging of chairs on the Titanic as the “abandon ship bell’ is sounding. The whole collapse of the NCAA, unlimited transfers , the overhang of the whole brain damage situation resulting in declining participation through the high school level ,and the increasing potential of government intervention all signal that we dont really know the future of college football. I think there are still more changes to come that will reshape college football.
 
The AAC fate will be decided by ESPN.
If they decide to keep the current contract in place , ( a big if)
schools from those conferences will be clamoring to get in the AAC.
Their contract is far better than the competitors.
Even the MW with its unbalanced contract sucks.
They might Back fill with Boise, Colo State , Utah State, SanDiego
Add another BB only like WKU
Money is the determining factor
 
tzznandrew said:
Most of the additions make sense. The infatuation these conferences have with UCF or USF, though, is baffling. Trash schools that are on the absolute bottom wrung in the state for both sports and academics.
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IMO, conference leaders focus too much on what school is playing well now and not enough on whether a prospective new member fits/makes long term sense.

Surely these leaders know that nearly all group of five schools are just a bad coaching change away from a prolonged decline?
 
tzznandrew said:
I mean, I'm not sure it has really helped any of the conferences. Their benefit is chimerical. Good recruits in Florida are going to go to Florida, FSU, or Miami before UCF (or USF), and then you add in the SEC schools. I just do not believe one Florida recruit played football at an American Conference school because of playing UCF and USF once a year.

I mean, every conference that has taken them has done so reactively, and they're usually conferences that we don't particularly respect with regards to leadership.
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Liked this for the correct use of the word chimerical.
 
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Hello All,

I wanted to share this article with the UConn fans to give you all a cautionary tale:

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I have been a lurker on this site, off and on, for a while and I understand how many UConn fans believe they missed the boat of belonging to a P5 conference.

The Too Long : Didn't Read version of the article is: Be careful what you wish for, it may come true:

Maryland owes the B1G conference $113 Million, so far, and that Rutgers is also in a similar boat.

I hope everyone will give the article a read
 
Jae-VT said:
Hello All,

I have been a lurker on this site, off and on, for a while and I understand how many UConn fans believe they missed the boat of belonging to a P5 conference.


Maryland owes the B1G conference $113 Million, so far, and that Rutgers is also in a similar boat.
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Welcome and thank you.

But, won't MD make about $150M in 3 years? So, it pays back the BiG and still averages $12M/year in its pocket.
No G5 school is making $12M.
 
Vowelguy said:
Welcome and thank you.

But, won't MD make about $150M in 3 years? So, it pays back the BiG and still averages $12M/year in its pocket.
No G5 school is making $12M.
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A cogent observation and one I will not dispute, but one of the themes of the article is the strange societal phenomenon known as “Keeping up with the Jones’s“. Both Rutgers and Maryland joined the B1G to make more money, yet after 5-6 years, both athletic departments are drowning in debt. Seems very strange to my mind.
Please do not misunderstand my intent of sharing this article with the UConn fans. I just thought it worth sharing with fellow college sports fans.
 
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Have they started getting full payouts? First few years they were getting reduced $$ as part of their earn-in.
 
Jae-VT said:
A cogent observation and one I will not dispute, but one of the themes of the article is the strange societal phenomenon known as “Keeping up with the Jones’s“. Both Rutgers and Maryland joined the B1G to make more money, yet after 5-6 years, both athletic departments are drowning in debt. Seems very strange to my mind.
Please do not misunderstand my intent of sharing this article with the UConn fans. I just thought it worth sharing with fellow college sports fans.
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They're not exactly lighting it up on the field either.
 
don356 said:
They're not exactly lighting it up on the field either.
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They would both easily beat UConn in football, and Maryland embarrassed men's basketball in the last tourney. So, don't throw stones. I would love for UConn to be in their place.
 
Storrs South said:
The AAC is planning to re-make itself in the wake of three schools leaving today. The conference plans to be aggressive and has begun planning...
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"So we hit the head of each of the other 5 families, uh conferences, and then we move to Vegas!"
 
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