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Here's a link to a story about a kid with a PSU offer (basketball) than ran today. Notice what the article says in regard to the Power 5 conferences:
"Next year Buttrick can add his name to the elite short list of players from Collier County who played basketball for one of Division I’s Power Five conferences – the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 or Southeastern Conference (SEC)."
The BE name has value and power in the marketplace. People still consider it a major conference....even though it isn't. And it's true, down here nobody knows UConn is in the AAC. They don't really give it thought but when it comes up, they think Big East or ACC. I have to tell them about the American and then they get their bearings that it's the conference with USF and Houston etc. Then they say, "Wtf?" To which I reply, "I know, it's bad". I'd rather play SJU and Seton Hall over every team in the AAC except maybe Temple and that's only because Temple is a bigger basketball name at this point.
Prep boys basketball: CSN's Trent Buttrick commits to Penn State
"Next year Buttrick can add his name to the elite short list of players from Collier County who played basketball for one of Division I’s Power Five conferences – the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 or Southeastern Conference (SEC)."
The BE name has value and power in the marketplace. People still consider it a major conference....even though it isn't. And it's true, down here nobody knows UConn is in the AAC. They don't really give it thought but when it comes up, they think Big East or ACC. I have to tell them about the American and then they get their bearings that it's the conference with USF and Houston etc. Then they say, "Wtf?" To which I reply, "I know, it's bad". I'd rather play SJU and Seton Hall over every team in the AAC except maybe Temple and that's only because Temple is a bigger basketball name at this point.
Prep boys basketball: CSN's Trent Buttrick commits to Penn State