There's a better chance the AAC adds Kabul University.

(04-05-2014 11:01 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  Uconn and Temple geographic outlers that can't really be helped, unless Umass, URI maybe to 14

URI? Really?

Exhibit 1: Meade Stadium.

I wish my HS had a football field that nice.

I rather AAC go with UMass... Flagship program, sexy market, additional northeast eyeballs, huge potential and FBS football ready, in case any one of our programs are offered membership elsewhere.

UMass is like a decade away from being viable.

(04-05-2014 01:35 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  UMass is like a decade away from being viable.

I think we have a decade of stability for that to happen. The only problem is can UMass make it as an independent when ND couldn't.

(04-05-2014 05:09 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(04-05-2014 01:35 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  UMass is like a decade away from being viable.

I think we have a decade of stability for that to happen. The only problem is can UMass make it as an independent when ND couldn't.

Who is we?

No interest in Nova.

(04-04-2014 06:50 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 02:43 PM)EvilVodka Wrote:  I'm usually anti-hybrid, but if Navy is coming along for the ride as a football only, why not go after Villanova in basketball??

I understand there's a push for Wichita State, but I've always seen Villanova as a better basketball power.

Villanova/Navy, sharing a spot in the AAC!!!

Do it!!!!

Oh yeah, and let's not forget that the BE makes twice as much as the AAC. So getting any of them would require them to agree to a big pay cut.

Totally false. AAC earned 17m in tournament credits and 17m in fiesta bowl revenues this year alone. Plus there are further sources of revenue.

(04-05-2014 07:37 AM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 08:19 PM)Savacool Wrote:  Nova is only one dimensional,basketball. Football drives the bus! Do not want them in the AAC.

Villanova is a consistently strong FB program, having won the I-AA/FCS title in 2009. Andy Talley just passed the 200 win total in his career last season. Of the three Big East schools that play football, the Wildcats are certainly the strongest on the field and in budget.

That having been said, they're not interested in the AAC.

Being a top FCS football program is like being a tall midget. There is a reason all the top FCS programs are trying to claw their way into FBS. There is no chance of making money in FCS. Villanova is a strong program at that level. But it has no backing of any sort to move up.

(04-05-2014 11:01 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  SMU, Houston, Cincy, Tulsa, Memphis

balanced with UCF, USF, Tulane, ECU and Georgia State

Uconn and Temple geographic outlers that can't really be helped, unless Umass, URI maybe to 14

URI is broke and the state is as well. It does not even fund the full 63 scholarships it's allowed. Until the SUNY schools were added to the CAA, it was on the verge of dropping football down to the NEC.

(04-05-2014 06:44 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(04-05-2014 05:09 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(04-05-2014 01:35 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  UMass is like a decade away from being viable.

I think we have a decade of stability for that to happen. The only problem is can UMass make it as an independent when ND couldn't.

Who is we?

'We' as in all human beings, the entirety of all people in existence have 10 years of stability in collegiate sports realignment.

(04-04-2014 02:43 PM)EvilVodka Wrote:  I'm usually anti-hybrid, but if Navy is coming along for the ride as a football only, why not go after Villanova in basketball??

I understand there's a push for Wichita State, but I've always seen Villanova as a better basketball power.

Villanova/Navy, sharing a spot in the AAC!!!

Do it!!!!

A push by a few fans here, nothing more. No Thanks, UConn playing for the national title, we need no one.

(04-05-2014 10:36 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 02:43 PM)EvilVodka Wrote:  I'm usually anti-hybrid, but if Navy is coming along for the ride as a football only, why not go after Villanova in basketball??

I understand there's a push for Wichita State, but I've always seen Villanova as a better basketball power.

Villanova/Navy, sharing a spot in the AAC!!!

Do it!!!!

A push by a few fans here, nothing more. No Thanks, UConn playing for the national title, we need no one.

Agreed! LET NOVA ROT!

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GO UCONN!!!!!!!!! GO AAC!!!!!!!

We do not need Villanova. The AAC does not need anyone. If we were going to add, I would go 4 and try to take the head off the MWC.

Nova's not coming. If they were interested D1 FB the AAC would not exist. If they wanted D1 football they would have have forced the issue before the C7 split and most of the AAC would still be in the BE splitting the fees and the BB credits from the departing schools (Pitt, Cuse, Rutgers, WV, and ND). The BE would have had a larger TV contract too with the C7 aboard.

BE Football:

East: UConn, Nova, Temple, ECU, UCF, USF
West: Navy, Cinn, Memphis, Houston, Tulane, SMU

BE BB: 11 FB schools + Georgetown, Providence, St Johns, Seton Hall, Marquette, and DePaul - 16 game single round robin BB league.

Tulsa, Creighton, Xavier, and Butler remain in their old conferences.

(04-04-2014 04:46 PM)Tallgrass Wrote:  The Big East is very stable with like-minded institutions, the money in BE is greater, and the AAC has issues regarding stability.

UCONN ATHLETIC DIRECTOR REMARKS

Lmao watching conference USA do terribly in the post season and watching the AAC do so well must make you want to throw up.

(04-06-2014 08:15 AM)carolinaknights Wrote:  Nova's not coming. If they were interested D1 FB the AAC would not exist. If they wanted D1 football they would have have forced the issue before the C7 split and most of the AAC would still be in the BE splitting the fees and the BB credits from the departing schools (Pitt, Cuse, Rutgers, WV, and ND). The BE would have had a larger TV contract too with the C7 aboard.

BE Football:

East: UConn, Nova, Temple, ECU, UCF, USF
West: Navy, Cinn, Memphis, Houston, Tulane, SMU

BE BB: 11 FB schools + Georgetown, Providence, St Johns, Seton Hall, Marquette, and DePaul - 16 game single round robin BB league.

Tulsa, Creighton, Xavier, and Butler remain in their old conferences.

I'll play


If I could form a conference from programs above ^^^ plus three dark horses... This will be my conference proposal;

EAST: UConn, Temple, Cincinnati, ECU, UCF, USF

WEST: Houston, SMU, Navy, UNLV, Memphis, Tulane

BB: Georgetown, St. Johns, Marquette (I let Tulane decide on this one), Wichita State, and UMass

(04-06-2014 10:17 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(04-06-2014 08:15 AM)carolinaknights Wrote:  Nova's not coming. If they were interested D1 FB the AAC would not exist. If they wanted D1 football they would have have forced the issue before the C7 split and most of the AAC would still be in the BE splitting the fees and the BB credits from the departing schools (Pitt, Cuse, Rutgers, WV, and ND). The BE would have had a larger TV contract too with the C7 aboard.

BE Football:

East: UConn, Nova, Temple, ECU, UCF, USF
West: Navy, Cinn, Memphis, Houston, Tulane, SMU

BE BB: 11 FB schools + Georgetown, Providence, St Johns, Seton Hall, Marquette, and DePaul - 16 game single round robin BB league.

Tulsa, Creighton, Xavier, and Butler remain in their old conferences.

I'll play


If I could form a conference from programs above ^^^ plus three dark horses... This will be my conference proposal;

EAST: UConn, Temple, Cincinnati, ECU, UCF, USF

WEST: Houston, SMU, Navy, UNLV, Memphis, Tulane

BB: Georgetown, St. Johns, Marquette (I let Tulane decide on this one), Wichita State, and UMass

Tulane would be upset over the addition of Marquette - but then they would be immediately overpowered by Memphis, UConn, Cincinnati, and Temple on the matter.

Tulane is salty about the Marquette situation, but the truth of the matter is that the two schools have more history together than they want to admit AND they also don't really get in each other's way.

We are not talking about Villanova-Temple levels of beef, folks.

I can't stand Marquette, but they would actually be the BEST olympic sports add for the AAC. Marquette is a big reason why the Big East TV contract was as good as it was.

The other three adds that also would make sense would be: SJU, Georgetown, and DePaul. All three put the conference in places that it currently ISN'T.

The Big East schools are VERY happy in their current configuration. None of them will move until one of the four events happens:

1. Defections lower conference value
2. Some ugly backroom event takes place
3. The AAC becomes MORE valuable than the Big East
4. ESPN tells certain Big East schools that they'll spike payout to 5M+ if they join the AAC

Until one of the above hapens, there is no reason for any of them to move.