(05-08-2017 05:52 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(05-08-2017 01:22 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  The old WAC was a solid conference but it lacked depth. On top of that, it was in the most sparsely populated portion of the country, which was bad for TV.

The old WAC may have lacked depth but they had waaay better bowls and way better football and basketball attendence that the AAC does. It's quite noticeable when going back to and analyzing the WAC from 1962 to 1998. The fact that the Big East football conference was created in 1991 was because Miami was hot at the time, their depth was worse than the WAC's and 25% of the old Big East were the worst football schools in the country. (Rutgers and Temple) The ACC before Florida St was pretty bad as far as depth as well. The SWC, PAC and Big 8 held the WAC down while the Big 10 and SEC propped the ACC and Big East up. Politics.

The SWC was garbage too, not necessarily better than the WAC. If Houston and Texas A&M were up, Texas was down. If Arkansas was up, Houston and Texas A&M could be down. Then the privates? Forget about it except Baylor every now and again or SMU while they were cheating.

So the WAC even had the SWC by and large.