Wichita St. to AAC Next Year (Officially Official)

[UConnNick]

Because it boosts our attendance. The #6 shockers come to town and we show em what its like when we get the joint rockin and put a beatin on em. Competition makes us better and puts butts in the seats. Butts in the seats gives us good optics for any realignment in the future. Its a means to the end.

And, once again, NOBODY cares about basketball. Nobody that might become involved in CR, nobody at the networks, nobody period, except for those of us that are UCONN fans living in the past. The glory days of the Big East basketball league and being in a BCS conference are over with. Until such time as football becomes secondary, which doesn't appear likely to ever happen, adding basketball only schools to the dumpster fire league which is the AAC is like trying to change it back to the Old Big East Lite.

Adding Wichita State or any other basketball only school sets us up for the exact kind of implosion that doomed the old Big East to failure. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

If the AAC was really concerned with trying to improve the conference, they'd be out there looking for up and coming football, not basketball schools.

 

[shizzle787]

And, once again, NOBODY cares about basketball. Nobody that might become involved in CR, nobody at the networks, nobody period, except for those of us that are UCONN fans living in the past. The glory days of the Big East basketball league and being in a BCS conference are over with. Until such time as football becomes secondary, which doesn't appear likely to ever happen, adding basketball only schools to the dumpster fire league which is the AAC is like trying to change it back to the Old Big East Lite.

Adding Wichita State or any other basketball only school sets us up for the exact kind of implosion that doomed the old Big East to failure. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

If the AAC was really concerned with trying to improve the conference, they'd be out there looking for up and coming football, not basketball schools.

Uh...CTE.

 

[king conn]

Wichita st. is a final four contender next year.
They make a final eight or four run, that is prestige this conference hasn't had since Louisville left.
We could actually go out and recruit and not be ashamed of our conference. I think KO is ecstatic about this.
I'm wondering what's in it for Wichita St. to be honest. Why risk the AAC dragging THEM down.

 

[shizzle787]

Wichita st. is a final four contender next year.
They make a final eight or four run, that is prestige this conference hasn't had since Louisville left.
We could actually go out and recruit and not be ashamed of our conference. I think KO is ecstatic about this.
I'm wondering what's in it for Wichita St. to be honest. Why risk the AAC dragging THEM down.

Um...you want to play Loyola and Drake on the road?

 

[king conn]

Um...you want to play Loyola and Drake on the road?

It's seems to be working out just fine for them

 

[shizzle787]

It's seems to be working out just fine for them

Not really. They get a 10 seed for going 30-4.

 

[king conn]

Not really. They get a 10 seed for going 30-4.

Yeah, and they are virtually guaranteed to be there playing.

 

[shizzle787]

Yeah, and they are virtually guaranteed to be there playing.

Not if they lose in their conference tourney. One slip up, and it's potentially game over.

 

[king conn]

Not if they lose in their conference tourney. One slip up, and it's potentially game over.

Potentially but not likely. They schedule up and get in rpi wise. They have the rep. now too.

 

[tzznandrew]

Potentially but not likely. They schedule up and get in rpi wise. They have the rep. now too.

For Wichita State, this is a no brainer. They went 30-4 and barely made the tournament. We got a 9-seed two years ago and people pretend we would have missed the tournament if it weren't for Adams' shot...and our league got 3 other teams in. Wichita was a 10 and alone.

It's not a no brainer for the AAC, but I'm at worst ambivalent. This seems like a net positive, by and large.

 

[jibsey]

If that is a ranked team perennially in the top 25 what is the downside? I hear what if they fall off? Well what if we fall off? We don;t know how long we will be here in AAC so let us play a ranked team in conference. This is a good thing.

 

[king conn]

For Wichita State, this is a no brainer. They went 30-4 and barely made the tournament. .

There really is a big lack of understanding about Wichita St. basketball here.

 

[superjohn]

There really is a big lack of understanding about Wichita St. basketball here.

Wichita State was 30-4 and viewed as a top 10 team by oddsmakers yet they were given a 10 seed and had to face Kentucky in the second round. Don't know what point you are trying to make.

 

[tzznandrew]

There really is a big lack of understanding about Wichita St. basketball here.

Okay. Tell me why they would want to play Illinois State over Cincinnati? Bradley over UConn? Evansville over Temple? Loyola over Memphis?

Or are you mentioning their history. Because they have more Final Fours than Tulsa, Tulane, East Carolina, SMU, UCF, USF.

They have as many Final Fours as Wichita State, and one is more recent by over 20 years than Houston's most recent. They have as many Final Fours as Temple...and they BOTH are more recent. They have more non-vacated Final Fours than Memphis.

 

[Fishy]

There really is a big lack of understanding about Wichita St. basketball here.

I think most of us agree that you don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.

 

[UC313]

And, once again, NOBODY cares about basketball. Nobody that might become involved in CR, nobody at the networks, nobody period, except for those of us that are UCONN fans living in the past. The glory days of the Big East basketball league and being in a BCS conference are over with. Until such time as football becomes secondary, which doesn't appear likely to ever happen, adding basketball only schools to the dumpster fire league which is the AAC is like trying to change it back to the Old Big East Lite.

Adding Wichita State or any other basketball only school sets us up for the exact kind of implosion that doomed the old Big East to failure. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

If the AAC was really concerned with trying to improve the conference, they'd be out there looking for up and coming football, not basketball schools.

I dont give a damn about the conference unless we're banished here forever. For uconn, this is a short term gain in a short term scenario. We're all hip that football money drives the bus. Basketball has the ability to keep uconn athletics in the limelight and we need that optic to help in getting us out of the AAC. Football is going to carry the load but if it cant hoops needs to help out until football can. A non football school neither adds nor retracts anything on the football side.

TLR - leave aac before blows up. Need to look great in all sports to get new conference. Need attendance. Need fans. Show me the money.

 

[tzznandrew]

I think most of us agree that you don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.

On Wichita State to the AAC, the responses range from "this is okay I guess" to "this sucks."

No response has been "What is Wichita State doing?" Because it's obvious why they would want to join a basketball conference of UConn, Cincy, Memphis, SMU, Temple. To us, a chit conference; to them, this is a godsend.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I hear George Soros is slated to be the next general manager for hell's basketball team.

Yes, there are sources that report such stuff and many who believe it.

 

[king conn]

I think most of us agree that you don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.

LOL let me enlighten you.
Wichita St has an easy pass to the NCAA tournament every year. They seem to be doing quite well with that. They seem to recruit quite well with that. Even make a final four in that dreadful conference.
Is it beyond comprehension not to give that up for a few seed lines? And that's all it would be, a few seed lines.
And all of a sudden the AAC has turned into the ACC in this case when you've done nothing but crap on this league in every other thread?
Which way does your wind blow tomorrow?

 

[The Viking]

To the naysayers it would do you some good to realize that in 10 years UConn will not be in the AAC anyway.
For the near term good and enjoyment add as much quality in any sport that you can and then cross off the years til we are back in the Big East or get a P5 invite.
And adduhg Wichita state is not going to hurt us financially
Chill.

 

[gampelcrazies]

I still don't understand why people are against/upset about this. It doesn't hurt UConn.

 

[Alum86]

Someone said it earlier. Frankenstein conference.
More mouths to feed.
We will be ODU womens hoop in a few years. A nice memory.
F this. And F Suzy

 

[auror]

LOL let me enlighten you.
Wichita St has an easy pass to the NCAA tournament every year. They seem to be doing quite well with that. They seem to recruit quite well with that. Even make a final four in that dreadful conference.
Is it beyond comprehension not to give that up for a few seed lines? And that's all it would be, a few seed lines.
And all of a sudden the AAC has turned into the ACC in this case when you've done nothing but crap on this league in every other thread?
Which way does your wind blow tomorrow?

They've had a good run. Before this recent tournament run, they went 5 years without making the tournament (where they got to Sweet 16). Before that, they went 17 (!!!) years without making the tournament.

Let's break it down for you. The old conference, 1 team out of 10 made the tournament. On average, you make the tournament 10% of the time, maybe slightly more often because you have a good program, you devote slightly more funds than most towards the sports, and hopefully you can keep your coach. But guess what, you make money in that conference, so you can't pay the coach as much as a better school in a better conference can. So you're going to lose him eventually. If he hits a down recruiting year or two, or god forbid the Celtics come calling, your coach is gone. Then you go another 10 years before you make the tournament.

Do you think it might be easier to up-conference and get to a place where 3/12 members make it, instead of 1/10?

For every Gonzaga, there is a Southern Illinois, a Davidson, a Belmont, a FGCU, or a UNCW.

 

[tzznandrew]

LOL let me enlighten you.
Wichita St has an easy pass to the NCAA tournament every year. They seem to be doing quite well with that. They seem to recruit quite well with that. Even make a final four in that dreadful conference.
Is it beyond comprehension not to give that up for a few seed lines? And that's all it would be, a few seed lines.
And all of a sudden the AAC has turned into the ACC in this case when you've done nothing but crap on this league in every other thread?
Which way does your wind blow tomorrow?

Let's put it this way: if Memphis kept Calipari, would they prefer CUSA or the AAC? If we were in our mid-2000s heydey, would you prefer the Big East, or the MVC?

For Wichita State, this is a pretty easy answer. This is a team that, in a real conference (and though a down year, the AAC still qualified as one) would have gotten a 4-5 seed, and thus likely a S16 rather than R32. And, if they got there, perhaps could have broken through to the E8, given they got paired with the best 2-seed.

Dominating bad conferences alone isn't a proposition most schools want. They want to sell tickets, get higher seeds, and make deeper tournament runs. The MVC doesn't do that.

 

[Alum86]

so now we can play in the big east for hoop,FB in AAC, now that they have added another orphan to FrAACenconference?