(01-28-2014 08:46 PM)Shrack Wrote:  Technically, CUSA 3.0 is still worse off than either of those situations, so I don't blame them for going. CUSA 3.0 has way too many 200+ RPI boat anchors right now that need to get their crap in order for basketball to be any good (just like UAB needs to start being better on the football side of things).

But it's something like

2014/2015 AAC is 132 average RPI (expected) as of right now with the inclusion of ECU/Tulane/Tulsa and no Louisville/Rutgers.
CUSA 2.0 was 140-150ish average RPI from 2012-2013.
CUSA 3.0 is 164 average RPI (expected) as of right now with the inclusion of WKU and no ECU/Tulane/Tulsa.

If the 2014/2015 AAC lost Cincy and Uconn they would be at a 153.5 average RPI right now. The AAC's got problems with teams in the middle of the RPI because there aren't any. They're all top 50 or below 150. However, if they did lose teams, you would also have to imagine that CUSA 3.0 would lose 2 of the better teams, probably in the 100-150 range. So there would still be about a 20 RPI gap, which is decently considerable.

If you plug MEM back into 3.0.....it's an immediate game changer...fk, I wish they wouldn't have left

What are you all talking about? AAC basketball if a million things hadn't happened or if they will happen, may be we'll be close in RPI? REALLY? That's sad... the REALITY is the AAC looks like it's going to have 5 teams in the tourney and we'll have ONE this March. Then, they'll only lose one of those top teams (in Louisville) and the AAC still appears to schedule up a lot against bigger conferences, than down to D2 (with a couple exceptions).

That said, if other realignment happens... GUESS WHAT... the AAC will just back-fill with the best available, so the best of our conference or the MWC will be brought on board to improve their conference for football and basketball, which would likely sink the CUSA even lower.

I was making comparisons for CUSA 2.0 to CUSA 3.0 basketball. Not the AAC to CUSA 3.0 (or at least that wasn't the point of the post). The AAC is a better situation than CUSA is. Not really debating that. The point of the post is that CUSA basketball wise hasn't really changed much.

Did someone get finally get banned?