(02-24-2014 10:32 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  The AAC cherry-picked who they wanted from C-USA, but the only things that will be missed are tradition, name recognition, academic prestige and large media markets.

True dat. If one is looking from a conference perspective, they will all be missed. The AAC IS Conference USA, plus UConn and Temple, so those schools that remain from the old CUSA will certainly miss the schools that they played. From a fan perspective, the only schools that will truly be missed are the ones that there was a close relationship with or rivalries. USM will absolutely miss the teams they played before there even was a CUSA, like Memphis, Tulane and ECU, teams they had developed rivalries with like Houston and Tulsa and they have long missed Cincinnati. A relationship with UCF was growing, but others like SMU won't really be missed and USF never was.