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Message: [QUOTE="StunningSteve, post: 2374661, member: 7895"] Actually, that bottom of the AAC is trending in a good way. Brian Gregory has been using his recruiting connections from Georgia Tech and is stocking our old Big East mate USF's roster in short order. Mike Dunleavy is doing well on the recruiting trail as well. Tulane made a home run hire with their AD from Northern Iowa, and both football and basketball are coming to life. ECU is the problem, in both football and basketball. However, they just hired Doug Wojcik as an assistant and their basketball recruiting has seemingly improved as of late. I've never been worried about Tubby Smith and Memphis. Both of them are solid name brands to have during television (and timeslot) negotiations. He's recruited a 7 footer that's playing with Team USA. He'll have Memphis back. They're hot on the heels of Tyler Harris, who could be a pied piper of sorts with other Memphis talent. I look at what UCF has done in a year, on the strength of their Soph class (BJ and Tacko) and it makes me feel good about what we're seeing with the above teams. All of the other 8 teams in the AAC, even Tulsa, will be competing for NCAA and NIT bids. The fact that Temple got slotted #7 in the coaches poll should make everyone feel good about the strength of the conference. TEMPLE IS A PRETTY DANG GOOD TEAM WITH ROSE (AN NBA CALIBER PLAYER) ENTERING HIS SOPH YEAR, AND BROWN COMING BACK. I GUARANTEE YOU the NBE #7 isn't as good as Temple. Tulsa has an injection of transfer talent to put around Etou. As for the NBE, when Holtmann left and they replaced him with Jordan, that torpedoed their program. Jordan hasn't landed a single recruit for 2018. It looks like Wichita State may beat them out for both Montverde's Udeze and Chance Moore. Moore is visiting them today. St Johns and Georgetown will both be worse than Temple. Ewing didn't land Waters and he's not landing anyone close to that caliber. Mullins just lost Sid Wilson to UConn. DePaul has TWO 8th graders in the fold. They are trying to build a "Fab 5" from the Middle School ranks. As for travel, ALL the main conferences are covering a lot of geography in planes. That's not unique to us. [/QUOTE]

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