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Message: [QUOTE="StunningSteve, post: 2634623, member: 7895"] This. And the SEC is a “Southern Football league”... The Identity in the AAC is actually pretty Metropolitan and basketball centric when you understand the big city locations and the pedigree of the programs in the conference. You look at Memphis, and they are much better at Football right now, but they are a BASKETBALL school (especially now with Penny, and future sellouts at the FedEx Forum. Same with Houston. They’ve been making more noise in football, lately, but their identity is basketball. Same with Temple. They won league in Football, but their identity is basketball. I actually think it’s advantageous in basketball to be in the Philadelphia, Houston, Memphis, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Orlando, Tampa, Dallas, Tulsa, Wichita, markets. A TON of good basketball is played in those cities. This idea that it’s Southern football is missing the mark. It’s actually nice to see very strong basketball cultures collide. The Shockers, for instance, have that old Indiana-esquee Kansas vibe of the farm boys who eat/breath/sleep the game from the cradle.. It’s fun to see how they deal with other basketball focused locales. UConn chose to build a conference and its working. Whenever you promote teams it is a process that entails hiring better staffs and investing. The Big City footprint was always the foundation to attracting coaches and talent, to make something new and built to last. Now that the coaching staffs have been upgraded in the league across the board (the three hires at Memphis, ECU, and UConn will further enhance the league) the conference is finally starting to realize the vision of a strong all-sports league. [/QUOTE]

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