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Wichita St. to AAC Next Year (Officially Official)

One more mouth to feed?

How is it that WE are all aware of the upward revenue C.F. when we see the P5 ... due to "change of circumstances" clause, but we fail to see that these moves are meaningful for the AAC

Aresco gets to negotiate another bite for the inclusion.
 
shizzle787 said:
They'll likely make up for it with NCAA tourney credits anyway...
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More than, since they won't get a full share anyway. It's easily a positive in every rational way. The only possible negative is that it reminds UConn fans that they are in a conference they don't want to be in. That's it. That's all I hear from the detractors. Same crap they said about Tulsa and Tulane, both of which are solid universities by the way. Boo hoo. Deal with it. There's no magic fairy dust changing our reality.

Honestly, I don't want to be in a league with any school in the AAC. Not Cinci, not Temple, none of them. But we are. And as long as we are, I want this league to have the best basketball competition it can, so out program doesn't become a moribund disaster.
 
HuskyHawk said:
More than, since they won't get a full share anyway. It's easily a positive in every rational way. The only possible negative is that it reminds UConn fans that they are in a conference they don't want to be in. That's it. That's all I hear from the detractors. Same crap they said about Tulsa and Tulane, both of which are solid universities by the way. Boo hoo. Deal with it. There's no magic fairy dust changing our reality.

Honestly, I don't want to be in a league with any school in the AAC. Not Cinci, not Temple, none of them. But we are. And as long as we are, I want this league to have the best basketball competition it can, so out program doesn't become a moribund disaster.
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I get not wanting Tulane and ECU. ECU, a "football" school, has the same winning % in the sport as us since 2002, when we fully transitioned to 1-A and Tulane is...Tulane. I do truly believe that the Tulane add was a bribe AAU add for a vote if we ever want to get into the AAU and B1G in the future.
 
We belong in a Power 5. As Joe Nocera said in the NYT, no University got screwed like UConn.

But fighting back ... we need to have the best Hoop we can get. This is a very nice next step for us & for the AAC. We need to find out enthusiasm for that Jersey. Looking down our nose cause its Kansas or the academics or the potential that Marshall leaves is just more curmudgeon behavior.
 
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shizzle787 said:
I get not wanting Tulane and ECU. ECU, a "football" school, has the same winning % in the sport as us since 2002, when we fully transitioned to 1-A and Tulane is...Tulane. I do truly believe that the Tulane add was a bribe AAU add for a vote if we ever want to get into the AAU and B1G in the future.
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I get it. But I hear people say they don't want ECU or Memphis or WSU due to academics. Then they bitch about Tulane for athletics. Then they bitch about Tulsa, who's sports aren't bad, for being in the middle of nowhere that they don't want to travel to. But Tulane, no, they get no credit for location or academics.

Every school in the conference has flaws and warts. Either crappy location, weak market, poor academics or unimpressive sports in one sport or another. All of them. UConn and Cinci are the least flawed.
 
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Wichita State basketball would hold position of strength in new conference

Call this the Doug McDermott theory of first impressions: Go in strong and they must respect you.

Wichita State is expected to accept an invitation to join the American Athletic Conference soon — a vote by AAC presidents is scheduled for Friday.

The timing is perfect for the Shockers and the American to make this addition for 2017-18. The Shockers could be a Final Four-contender and the conference needs that boost.

“The American Conference is fortunate to have Wichita State,” ESPN’s Seth Greenberg said. “It’s an elite, top-10 program with a world-class coach.”

Men’s basketball is the athletic motivation for the move and the Shockers will likely enter their new conference as the favorite. They are ranked in the top 10 nationally of seven top 25 rankings for 2017-18 this week by media outlets such as CBSSports.com, ESPN and Sports Illustrated. Cincinnati is ranked in all, no higher than No. 13. SMU, depending on the future of AAC Player of the Year Semi Ojeleye, is a possible preseason top 25 pick.

“For the AAC to bring in Wichita State, which doesn’t have football, it must mean they want them pretty badly,” said Eric Bossi, recruiting analyst for Rivals.com. “The roster they have could compete for the AAC title next year.”

It will be nice, from a Wichita State perspective, to go in like Creighton, not like Rutgers.


Vote is this morning at 10:30 ET
 
How did Jacobs get to his number of $6.8M per school?

If 1 TV unit is worth $264,859 and they have earned 64 units, that's a little less than $17M. How does that divide up to the $6.8M per school.

His TV unit number must be way low, no?

"Each game played in the tournament, except the national championship, is worth one unit from a pool set aside from the money the NCAA makes from the TV deal. One unit alone this year is worth $264,859. The ACC has earned 64 units the past three years and when split equally among the 15 schools each will be getting $6.8 million. Even BC, which stinks in basketball, is getting $6.8 million."
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
How did Jacobs get to his number of $6.8M per school?

If 1 TV unit is worth $264,859 and they have earned 64 units, that's a little less than $17M. How does that divide up to the $6.8M per school.

His TV unit number must be way low, no?

"Each game played in the tournament, except the national championship, is worth one unit from a pool set aside from the money the NCAA makes from the TV deal. One unit alone this year is worth $264,859. The ACC has earned 64 units the past three years and when split equally among the 15 schools each will be getting $6.8 million. Even BC, which stinks in basketball, is getting $6.8 million."
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Good question. The $264,859 is paid each year for 6 years, so the total value of making the NCAA tourney is just under $1.6M. You can add another $1.6M per team and per win. In other words, if the AAC has 4 teams make the tournament, 2 teams lose their first game (1 credit per game x 2 teams = 2 credits), 1 team loses in the round of 32 (1 credit per game x 1 team = 2 credits), and 1 team loses in the elite 8 (1 credit per game x 1 team = 4 credits), that's a total of 8 credits. The conference get $2.12M per year for the next 6 years (plus whatever they had earned in previous tournaments).
 
UConNation said:
Good question. The $264,859 is paid each year for 6 years, so the total value of making the NCAA tourney is just under $1.6M. You can add another $1.6M per team and per win. In other words, if the AAC has 4 teams make the tournament, 2 teams lose their first game (1 credit per game x 2 teams = 2 credits), 1 team loses in the round of 32 (1 credit per game x 1 team = 2 credits), and 1 team loses in the elite 8 (1 credit per game x 1 team = 4 credits), that's a total of 8 credits. The conference get $2.12M per year for the next 6 years (plus whatever they had earned in previous tournaments).
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Ah didn't realize that the credit is paid out over 6 years, so it's really that $264k x 6.

Thanks!
 
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I been saying since the conference was formed that a cursory look st the teams in conference BB history and It was apparent a couple of BB adds and this becomes a significant conference
Sorry Mr Arrsco but this move might be a little late
How much damage has been done to
Memphis.UConn,and Temple
ECU should have been FB only and we should have added 2 BB onlies
One of the reasons I'm not an Aresco Fan. His lack of foresight hurt. It wasn't until the possibility of UConn's departure seemed very real that this move was made.
 
It's a mortal lock that UConn / SMU / Cincinnati / Wichita will all play each other in home and homes.

ECU / USF / Tulane will playing each other in home and homes is a lock as well.

Maximizing the top programs play each other is something even the AAC can't screw up.
 
It's OK I guess, but it doesn't quicken my pace or heartbeat one iota walking into the XL to see them.
 
J187Money said:
They will be a net positive financially. Hard to argue against this one.
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They're not going to move the needle for TV contract, but hopefully they get some tourny credits.
 
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