Ugh, reporter covering Tulane claims AAC is going to 20 game regular season..

[upstater]

The AAC is going to be brutal and it will 20 games of brutality. I've been told the league schedule is going to be a home-and-home with all 10 opponents. That should be welcome news to Tulane fans who hate the Green Wave's non-conference schedule and tell me about it often.

http://blogs.theadvocate.com/sports...at-with-advocate-contributor-scott-kushner-7/

First they shared the money with all these lucky schools, then they sold the rights to UConn women's BB away, and now they are taking away UConn's OOC games.

I have to think they are doing it because UConn is leaving, no?

 

[Fishy]

Well, they're making sure everything nothing school in the conference gets to sell UConn tickets.

 

[UConn990411]

Has Aresco made a single non-idiotic move yet?

I despise him.

 

[metsfan2323]

This may just be a clueless reporter. A couple weeks ago Aresco said that the conference would work with the schools and our TV networks to ensure that the top teams in the conference would play each other twice, which implies that we won't be playing everyone twice.

If we did go to a 20 game league schedule it would help some of the schools improve their strength of schedule.

 

[Gregory Koch]

Has Aresco made a single non-idiotic move yet?

I despise him.

From the perspective of the AAC, this isn't idiotic. It will benefit 10 of the 11 schools. We just happen to be the one it hurts.

 

[UConn990411]

From the perspective of the AAC, this isn't idiotic. It will benefit 10 of the 11 schools. We just happen to be the one it hurts.

Can you please just let me bash Aresco without instilling any logic?

In case you haven't noticed, I really dislike him.

 

[alexd]

From the perspective of the AAC, this isn't idiotic. It will benefit 10 of the 11 schools. We just happen to be the one it hurts.

But it hurts the conference as a whole in that the top schools won't have as much leeway to schedule solid OOC matchups for TV.

 

[Gregory Koch]

But it hurts the conference as a whole in that the top schools won't have as much leeway to schedule solid OOC matchups for TV.

You mean the top school, which is us. It benefits 10 of the 11 teams. With the possible exception of Memphis, who else in the conference is going to be able to schedule solid OOC matchups that will get on national TV? The best team on Cincy's OOC schedule was Xavier, and that rivalry is happening no matter what. Other than that, their best matchup was New Mexico. Cincy-New Mexico is not exactly a big-time matchup. Memphis at least had a few good OOC matchups, as did we. But realistically, what's going to get cut are the matchups with teams like Eastern Washington and Loyola of Maryland, not the top matchups like Florida. Also, we'll still be playing in the early season tournaments that don't count toward schedule limits, and other than that, our only good OOC matchup this year was the Gators. Stanford's likely going to be a 9 or 10 seed in the NCAA Tournament, Harvard a 12 or 13, and nobody else is getting in unless they win their conference tournament. Indiana was supposed to be good, but those tournaments are going to happen anyway since they don't count toward maximum games.

And again, only us and Memphis are going to be able to schedule those premiere TV games anyway. The other 9 teams would benefit more from playing us and Memphis twice a year every year, meaning they get us at home and they get on national TV. Remember, all conference games are nationally televised somewhere. It could be some obscure channel like ESPNNews, but it's national TV. Non-conference games are not included in that deal. So now 9 teams get two games on national TV that they probably wouldn't otherwise, and two teams still get those games on national TV, but in a slightly worse matchup maybe. And maybe not, depending on who we drop. We could easily find two OOC matchups to not schedule, and not all of our OOC games are on national TV anyway. So while it does hurt us and Memphis, it does not hurt us as much as it helps the other 9 teams, plus there are 9 of them and 2 of us.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about this either. But I can't really call something that benefits 9 of 11 teams "idiotic" even if we're not one of them.

 

[alexd]

And don't forget Gregory, Cincy is one of the all time great schools. Any of the elite schools would love to schedule them.

 

[husky91]

What's really the difference, for a 30-32 game regular season ur only going to play 4-5 really good OOC games so playing Tulane, ECU or Tulsa is the same as playing Maine or Stoney Brook. They'll have the same 6-8k at the XL as they would otherwise.

#AACisawful

 

[kobe]

And don't forget Gregory, Cincy is one of the all time great schools. Any of the elite schools would love to schedule them.

None of the elite area schools like Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio State want to play Cincinnati. We've been trying with UK since they dropped us in the 80's, O$U is still better about the two title losses in the 60's, and I believe one was close with Indiana but fell through.

Cincinnati has Ole Miss/Creighton, @Nebraska, @NC State, San Diego State, Xavier and (probably) VCU for next year. Not elite schools but still most figure to be pretty good next season.

 

[intlzncster]

None of the elite area schools like Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio State want to play Cincinnati. We've been trying with UK since they dropped us in the 80's, O$U is still better about the two title losses in the 60's, and I believe one was close with Indiana but fell through.

Cincinnati has Ole Miss/Creighton, @Nebraska, @NC State, San Diego State, Xavier and (probably) VCU for next year. Not elite schools but still most figure to be pretty good next season.

Yeah, that was some sarcasm relating to a Cincy poster in another thread. The guy's a troll and not very bright. So Cincy's going to take some heat on here solely because of that dude. See the Villanova thread.

 

[kobe]

Yeah, that was some sarcasm relating to a Cincy poster in another thread. The guy's a troll and not very bright. So Cincy's going to take some heat on here solely because of that dude. See the Villanova thread.

Ah, figured it was something I missed. Thanks.

 

[Adios]

This is definitely a plan that benefits all schools not named UConn, Memphis and maybe SMU and Cincinnati.

 

[TRest]

http://blogs.theadvocate.com/sports...at-with-advocate-contributor-scott-kushner-7/

First they shared the money with all these lucky schools, then they sold the rights to UConn women's BB away, and now they are taking away UConn's OOC games.

I have to think they are doing it because UConn is leaving, no?

The AAC being brutal means something different to us than it does to Tulane.

 

[BUHusky]

What's really the difference, for a 30-32 game regular season ur only going to play 4-5 really good OOC games so playing Tulane, ECU or Tulsa is the same as playing Maine or Stoney Brook. They'll have the same 6-8k at the XL as they would otherwise.

#AACisawful

I feel dirty agreeing with husky91, but if, and this is a big IF, playing 2 extra games against the ECU, Tulsa, or Tulane means 2 less games against the Eastern Washingtons, Maines, Detroits, and Loyolas of the world (again a very big IF), then that's fine, and perhaps even an RPI booster all things considered.

However, if it means 2 less games against a P5, nBE, MWC, or good mid-major like Gonzaga/Wichita St/Harvard (which is the more likely scenario), then it's a really, really bad thing.

 

[upstater]

I feel dirty agreeing with husky91, but if, and this is a big IF, playing 2 extra games against the ECU, Tulsa, or Tulane means 2 less games against the Eastern Washingtons, Maines, Detroits, and Loyolas of the world (again a very big IF), then that's fine, and perhaps even an RPI booster all things considered.

However, if it means 2 less games against a P5, nBE, MWC, or good mid-major like Gonzaga/Wichita St/Harvard (which is the more likely scenario), then it's a really, really bad thing.

Since home and homes are difficult to schedule, as are tourneys, Warde might be a little gun shy scheduling more of those when it means at least one lost home game, and depending on how the home-and-homes fall (you can have 2 aways one year), it may lead to fewer such games. They have to make an extra trip on the road after all--it's not simply losing revenues from home games. It's the travel. But there's no positive side to it. At least when you play Yale, you have some revenue coming in. But in this case you play ECU AND you have to travel to Greenville!