(03-08-2014 11:27 AM)CincyBro Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:40 AM)The Real LHS81 Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:37 AM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:36 AM)The Real LHS81 Wrote:  Ugh. . . Okay. Think that's why the AAC needs to offer a Wichita St or VCU to offset Navy, and have an 18 game conference schedule.

The Big Ten did an 18 game schedule with 11 teams for over two decades.

Okay. . . Just not in favor of a 20 game league schedule. But, if it happens. Guess that means SMU will be 20-0 or 19-1 next year in the league

,DO NOT get ahead of yourself.

I don't blame SMU fans for sticking out their chests a bit. They had a season to be proud of.

But, predicting a sweep of either UConn, Memphis, Cincinnati, or maybe all of them, is a tad over the top.

(03-08-2014 03:24 PM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 11:27 AM)CincyBro Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:40 AM)The Real LHS81 Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:37 AM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 10:36 AM)The Real LHS81 Wrote:  Ugh. . . Okay. Think that's why the AAC needs to offer a Wichita St or VCU to offset Navy, and have an 18 game conference schedule.

The Big Ten did an 18 game schedule with 11 teams for over two decades.

Okay. . . Just not in favor of a 20 game league schedule. But, if it happens. Guess that means SMU will be 20-0 or 19-1 next year in the league

,DO NOT get ahead of yourself.

I don't blame SMU fans for sticking out their chests a bit. They had a season to be proud of.

But, predicting a sweep of either UConn, Memphis, Cincinnati, or maybe all of them, is a tad over the top.

I would be shocked if next years SMU team has more than 4 or 5 losses in a 30/31 game regular season

(03-08-2014 01:18 PM)upstater1 Wrote:  This is a monumentally bad idea.

I'm shocked this idea didn't get pus back from the likes of UConn and Memphis and Cincy. How did Aresco manage to pass this?

UConn plays 6 schools annually OOC and always has. Th8is leaves them with 3 local cupcakes at best.

Disagree, traditional power teams like Cincy, Uconn, Memphis will just be swapping a couple of OOC cupcakes for a couple of in conference cupcakes. The AAC will be strong but not anything close to what the old Big East or even this season's AAC is.

(03-08-2014 03:54 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  The AAC will be strong but not anything close to what the old Big East or even this season's AAC is.

Only the ACC is "close to what the old Big East" was.

The future-AAC may not consistently put 5 teams in the Dance (then again, it just might), but it will be at least "close" to what the league has done this year.

(03-08-2014 03:54 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:18 PM)upstater1 Wrote:  This is a monumentally bad idea.

I'm shocked this idea didn't get pus back from the likes of UConn and Memphis and Cincy. How did Aresco manage to pass this?

UConn plays 6 schools annually OOC and always has. Th8is leaves them with 3 local cupcakes at best.

Disagree, traditional power teams like Cincy, Uconn, Memphis will just be swapping a couple of OOC cupcakes for a couple of in conference cupcakes. The AAC will be strong but not anything close to what the old Big East or even this season's AAC is.

We don't the have the option of doing that...we have to have 18 home games EVERY year per our contract with FedExForum.

I can see why some of the traditional powers may be a bit upset with this set up. I think it's great, but then again I really want to see ECU take on the top teams at home.

(03-08-2014 02:59 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  ESPN & CBS have provide AAC tremendous love... What better way to promote the AAC, programs, current and future recruits who want to be seen on ESPN & CBS... I think is brilliant.

A better way would be to have recruits see you play the top teams in the nation OOC on national television. That would promote the top teams in the eyes of recruits, and it would promote the league. Now we're going to hear nothing but, "Hey, they just play one another, those records in the AAC are totally phony."

(03-08-2014 03:54 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:18 PM)upstater1 Wrote:  This is a monumentally bad idea.

I'm shocked this idea didn't get pus back from the likes of UConn and Memphis and Cincy. How did Aresco manage to pass this?

UConn plays 6 schools annually OOC and always has. Th8is leaves them with 3 local cupcakes at best.

Disagree, traditional power teams like Cincy, Uconn, Memphis will just be swapping a couple of OOC cupcakes for a couple of in conference cupcakes. The AAC will be strong but not anything close to what the old Big East or even this season's AAC is.

I guarantee you it won't happen this way because the schools are trading away home games. There aren't home and home games against OOC cupcakes. Net result is a decrease in profile for the entire conference. There's a reason no other power conference has 20 games.

I can see it now; the power teams will see to it that they don't get ECU twice and then they'll complain that we had the weakest schedule when we win the conference...

(03-08-2014 05:22 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 03:54 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  The AAC will be strong but not anything close to what the old Big East or even this season's AAC is.

Only the ACC is "close to what the old Big East" was.

The future-AAC may not consistently put 5 teams in the Dance (then again, it just might), but it will be at least "close" to what the league has done this year.

Actually, the ACC looks like the old ACC is terms of strength. Very top heavy.
B1G is the best basketball conference.

(03-08-2014 05:41 PM)upstater1 Wrote:  I guarantee you it won't happen this way because the schools are trading away home games. There aren't home and home games against OOC cupcakes. Net result is a decrease in profile for the entire conference. There's a reason no other power conference has 20 games.

Going to a 20-game schedule means you'd have one less home game than you had this year.

(03-08-2014 05:45 PM)Chappy Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 05:41 PM)upstater1 Wrote:  I guarantee you it won't happen this way because the schools are trading away home games. There aren't home and home games against OOC cupcakes. Net result is a decrease in profile for the entire conference. There's a reason no other power conference has 20 games.

Going to a 20-game schedule means you'd have one less home game than you had this year.

The difficulty of scheduling home-and-homes at all when you count on home revenue means you have less OOC games against top competition. That's the problem. Frankly, I can care less as a fan about whether UCon is playing Rhode Island or Yale at home. What matters to me is the flexibility so that UConn can play North Carolina, Indiana, Arizona and such teams, and this new deal makes more than 3 such games next to impossible. Plus, Aresco was apparently quoted a few weeks ago that they are doing 18 games, so this 20 game stuff may be misinformation.

(03-08-2014 05:45 PM)Chappy Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 05:41 PM)upstater1 Wrote:  I guarantee you it won't happen this way because the schools are trading away home games. There aren't home and home games against OOC cupcakes. Net result is a decrease in profile for the entire conference. There's a reason no other power conference has 20 games.

Going to a 20-game schedule means you'd have one less home game than you had this year.

Not for Memphis...what makes you think we would schedule home-home contracts if we don't have to?

I haven't thought it all the way through, but except for UConn, Memphis, and maybe Cincy, this is a great thing.

The other 7 schools get the UConn brand two times a year, plus 2 times of Memphis and Cincy.

I'm not really sure why UConn agreed to it, or perhaps they were simply out voted. In the end it doesn't matter. What matters is now we'll get a true home and home. Think of Tulsa getting a home game every year against the 3 time NCAA champions? Also ECU and Tulane! What a coup those schools pulled off.

If it only hurts UConn and maybe Memphis than that's a small price to pay.

(03-08-2014 01:39 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  Terrible idea...doubt it happens.

Personally, I think it is the right call. You want to be in this conference, then you play every member twice and let the chips fall where they may.

Don't show weakness by saying we don't want to play all our conference mates twice, because it hurts our RPI.

This is AAC, love it, respect it, and believe that it can do good things for your school.

Round Robin is the fair way to do it. Everyone step up their game, and it will be a blessing, not a curse.

Fine with an 18 game conference schedule

(03-08-2014 05:45 PM)Chappy Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 05:41 PM)upstater1 Wrote:  I guarantee you it won't happen this way because the schools are trading away home games. There aren't home and home games against OOC cupcakes. Net result is a decrease in profile for the entire conference. There's a reason no other power conference has 20 games.

Going to a 20-game schedule means you'd have one less home game than you had this year.

Not for Memphis...what makes you think we would schedule home-home contracts if we don't have to?

(03-08-2014 06:29 PM)shadowman Wrote:  

(03-08-2014 01:39 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  Terrible idea...doubt it happens.

Personally, I think it is the right call. You want to be in this conference, then you play every member twice and let the chips fall where they may.

Don't show weakness by saying we don't want to play all our conference mates twice, because it hurts our RPI.

This is AAC, love it, respect it, and believe that it can do good things for your school.

Round Robin is the fair way to do it. Everyone step up their game, and it will be a blessing, not a curse.

Again, we can't...so that's that.

ESPN dicks us over with chump change, and we respond by giving the f'ing networks additional inventory?? Yeah, let's sacrifice non-con home games, and whatever money we can make on those, so that we can give the criminal networks additional TV games to further exploit us with.

Well done

(03-08-2014 06:49 PM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  ESPN dicks us over with chump change, and we respond by giving the f'ing networks additional inventory?? Yeah, let's sacrifice non-con home games, and whatever money we can make on those, so that we can give the criminal networks additional TV games to further exploit us with.

Well done

We give them less inventory. Those 2 extra conference games (one of which is a road game) most likely replace 2 nonconference home games.