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State of the AAC & Mike Aresco

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Hate it. I know lots of you guys love to hate on the AAC, but I personally loved rooting for them in football. They were the underdogs/dark horses against the power 5 and the rigged CFP system. Power 5 year after year would ignore the AAC, but then come and steal their coaches every year. And now they’re stealing the teams they consistently laughed at in the CFP polls.
 
to anyone who believed aresco when he said the aac was in a position of strength when it came to realignment and would have their pick of the best remaining big12 programs...i know of a few bridges to nowhere you might be interested in buying.
 
To think the sports media put the Big East, AAC and Atlantic 10 in the same group in 2014. Lol.
 
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aburks41 said:
Imagine we didn’t get into the Big East and got stuck in a gutted AAC…Memphis is in serious trouble right now.
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I was thinking about Memphis too…. there’s no way they can stay in that conference but I have no clue where they could move to

Pac12 wouldn’t make sense, Big10 & SEC are packed already, Big12 just took their pick of 4 schools, that really only leaves the ACC or Big East w/ independent football, and neither of those make a ton of sense either. It’s gonna be interesting to see what they do now
 
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superjohn said:
That's exactly what would've happened and posters on the football board are pissed Benedict got us back in the Big East.
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Do you think the Big 12 would have taken us? Obviously it’s great to have the safety of the big east, but seeing Cincy, Houston and UCF stumble into a $25m payday stings a lot
 
rollskies said:
I was thinking about Memphis too…. there’s no way they can stay in that conference but I have no clue where they could move to

Pac12 wouldn’t make sense, Big10 & SEC are packed already, Big12 just took their pick of 4 schools, that really only leaves the ACC or Big East w/ independent football, and neither of those make a ton of sense either. It’s gonna be interesting to see what they do now
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dont see penny and his HOF assistants sticking around to coach in CUSA 2.0 and what players are circling their calendars for the grudge match against tulsa?!
aburks41 said:
Do you think the Big 12 would have taken us? Obviously it’s great to have the safety of the big east, but seeing Cincy, Houston and UCF stumble into a $25m payday stings a lot
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lol given the state of the footbal program we've never been further from a p4.5 invite. remember the existential terror you felt once we were headed for the aac? well multiply that by 100 if you wanna know what being on the brink of joining the A10 would feel like right now.
 
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bendm said:
dont see penny and his HOF assistants sticking around to coach in CUSA 2.0 and what players are circling their calendars for the grudge match against tulsa?!

lol given the state of the footbal program we've never been further from a p4.5 invite. remember the existential terror you felt once we were headed for the aac? well multiply that by 100 if you wanna know what being on the brink of joining the A10 would feel like right now.
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God bless Dave Benedict lol
 
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Imagine your job being to say stuff like this that you don't believe and nobody else believes either.

Aresco should convince the remaining schools to split up the exit fees/tournament credits between himself and the schools and blow up the conference and let everyone fend for themselves. Then he can go retire on a yacht somewhere.
 
when the aac was the 6th best conference there was semi-justification for it to be such a far flung assortment of random schools with little history or ties but enough is enough. the 8 remaining aac football schools should join the remaining G4 conferences.

1. temple- indy (A10 for Olympic sports)
2. navy- indy (stays partiot for Olympic Sports)
3. ecsu- sun belt
4. usf- sun belt
5. memphis- CUSA
6. tulane- CUSA
7. tulsa- CUSA
8. smu- CUSA

CUSA can be the new "P6" with 18 teams. no one fits geographically into the MAC or Mtn West.
 
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upstater said:
He's not wrong though that these schools were not P5 worthy, and now they are.

That being said, I don't think there is a P5 anymore.
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There isn't. Kansas in the future Big XXII is akin to UConn in the AAC, without the championship success (including non-revenue sports). The Big XXII's money faucet slows to a drip after OU and UT take off.

It would be a hoot if they took the UConn track (Big East/Independent), but they have a better chance than UConn to jump to the B1G, if only for their AAU membership.
 
Aresco to our fans when he said deal with it..........the AAC, right after he sold away Uconn's SNY contract to ESPN.

From the Courant :
"His advice for UConn fans holding the current AAC up against the old Big East and lamenting the drop in revenue, rivalries and prestige: It's time to move on. "First of all, I want to be sensitive to those opinions, and I do understand those comparisons," he said. "But I do think at some point, in life and everything, you have to move on and you have to accept what you have "

hmmm, how'd that work out for ya, Mike ?
 
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Blades said:
Aresco to our fans when he said deal with it..........the AAC, right after he sold away Uconn's SNY contract to ESPN.

From the Courant :
"His advice for UConn fans holding the current AAC up against the old Big East and lamenting the drop in revenue, rivalries and prestige: It's time to move on. "First of all, I want to be sensitive to those opinions, and I do understand those comparisons," he said. "But I do think at some point, in life and everything, you have to move on and you have to accept what you have "

hmmm, how'd that work out for ya, Mike ?
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We moved on.





























To the Big East.
 
rollskies said:
I don’t like to pay much attention to the AAC these days, but I felt like Aresco’s comments on Cincy, Houston, and UCF leaving were too good not to post:

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Irony doesn't pay the bills, unfortunately
 
Does this sound familiar? Maybe they should join the BE and go independent in football. :)

Despite the blow to Memphis' ego, there is more than a silver lining here. There's a tempting opportunity for the school -- which should be spearheaded by its basketball ethos -- to capitalize on being left behind. Memphis, most obviously, was passed over because it is historically a bad football school. There have been recent pockets of football success, but that university is a basketball place through and through. And if it wants to maintain its relevance going forward -- regardless of its conference affiliation -- it needs to lean into its basketball infatuation and never look back.

www.cbssports.com

Snubbed by the Big 12, here's why Memphis now needs to go all-in on becoming a college basketball power

Memphis is a basketball school, not a football one, and the sooner it fully embraces this, the better off the Tigers will be
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
 
HooperScooper said:
Does this sound familiar? Maybe they should join the BE and go independent in football. :)

Despite the blow to Memphis' ego, there is more than a silver lining here. There's a tempting opportunity for the school -- which should be spearheaded by its basketball ethos -- to capitalize on being left behind. Memphis, most obviously, was passed over because it is historically a bad football school. There have been recent pockets of football success, but that university is a basketball place through and through. And if it wants to maintain its relevance going forward -- regardless of its conference affiliation -- it needs to lean into its basketball infatuation and never look back.

www.cbssports.com

Snubbed by the Big 12, here's why Memphis now needs to go all-in on becoming a college basketball power

Memphis is a basketball school, not a football one, and the sooner it fully embraces this, the better off the Tigers will be
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
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I don't want them in the Big East. There's no guarantee they will even be good in the AAC. The Big East is a big step up. Memphis thrives when they are a big fish in a small pond.
 
If the AAC wants to respond in a way that a) keeps Navy in the fold, b) keeps them relevant in basketball, and c) doesn't dilute the football product too much, they need to do the following:

1) add Rice and UAB for all sports
2) add VCU and Dayton for Olympic sports

It's possible the AAC could raid the MW but I doubt it. I also don't see the American getting Army.
By doing what I mentioned, they keep Navy happy by adding a 2nd Texas, not totally dilute the football product by only going to 10 adding former 2000s C-USA schools, and keep basketball relevant by ripping the top off of the A-10.

In basketball, they would have
Memphis
Temple
Wichita State
VCU
Dayton
SMU
Tulsa
UAB
USF
Tulane
Rice
ECU

That's a solid mid major league.
 
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