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[QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2130830, member: 488"]
If this comes to fruition, the AAC could be a legitimately good conference next year.  Not good by AAC standards, like legitimately good, as in potentially up there with leagues like the Big Ten and Big East.

Wichita State should be a top ten type team.  Cincinnati should join them in the top 25.  SMU - if Semi returns - will be a legitimate threat nationally.  UCF returns most of their team - and adds a bunch - from a squad that went to the final four of the NIT.

Then you have us, Houston (should be in the mix again for the tournament), and Temple (almost guaranteed to bounce back with a relatively talented young nucleus and maybe Josh Brown back).  So you could be looking at half the league dancing.

Memphis is still kind of a mess, but they're still Memphis and should be reasonably competitive.  Tulsa is just good enough to not be an RPI killer, East Carolina wasn't quite as bad as people thought last year, and the Dunleavy experiment is at least entering year two.  South Florida, I guess they can't get worse.

Add in the fact that the league is going to guarantee that all the good teams play each other twice (meaning some combination of Tulsa, Tulane, and ECU will be dropped) and you could be looking at a much different product than what we've seen the last couple years.
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