(04-08-2014 10:00 AM)cartershaw Wrote:  

(04-08-2014 01:43 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  AAC at this pace will be below MAC level in a year or two. Your bias and hatred of the MAC may fool some here, but certainly not me.

You are delusional....hmmm directional midwest schools vs Cinci, South Florida, UCF(largest school in FL, with resources) UConn(maybe you heard of them on your tv last night) SMU(won NIT, decent football)

Brand names... vs Western Mich, Eastern Mich, Akron...these could be community colleges

Cincy and UConn are trying to leave the AAC. They want nothing to do with it.

(04-08-2014 05:23 PM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(04-08-2014 10:00 AM)cartershaw Wrote:  

(04-08-2014 01:43 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  AAC at this pace will be below MAC level in a year or two. Your bias and hatred of the MAC may fool some here, but certainly not me.

You are delusional....hmmm directional midwest schools vs Cinci, South Florida, UCF(largest school in FL, with resources) UConn(maybe you heard of them on your tv last night) SMU(won NIT, decent football)

Brand names... vs Western Mich, Eastern Mich, Akron...these could be community colleges

Cincy and UConn are trying to leave the AAC. They want nothing to do with it.

They wanted the last spot in the ACC.. But since it went to Louisville...

Neither are going anywhere.. 1. there is no reason to go 2. neither is a 2 sport school(maybe cinci)...

(04-08-2014 08:10 AM)ADOG05 Wrote:  The American Athletic Conference (AAC) will always be miles ahead of the MAC, NIU would be lucky to get move into the AAC, I would very much like to see NIU competing in the AAC someday soon. Big 12 will not happen, NIU still has work to do to bring it's athletics on par with majority of AAC athletic departments.

Not sure about miles ahead of the MAC, but NIU needs to upgrade facilities, scheduling and move on. I agree that Big12 will not happen for the Huskies.

NIU needs money and lots of it..like 15 Yordons to get the facilities upgraded to get to any other conference

(04-08-2014 08:47 PM)cartershaw Wrote:  NIU needs money and lots of it..like 15 Yordons to get the facilities upgraded to get to any other conference

They should be trying to establish a major corporate sponsor. Sell naming rights to whoever wants them. This is about Akron's new stadium...

Quote:The stadium is named for InfoCision Management Corporation and the playing field for Summa Health System. In the press tower on the stadium's west side, the club seating is named after the Akron-based FirstMerit Corporation and the press box for the local Towpath Credit Union. Principal naming rights for the stadium were purchased through a personal donation by Gary Taylor, Founder and Chairman of InfoCision Management Corporation, a firm based in nearby Bath Township that operates call centers.[19] Through Taylor's $10 million donation to the university, InfoCision secured naming rights for the stadium for twenty years.[20]

Summa Health System, an Ohio Non-Profit Hospital, purchased (by means of its for-profit insurance company, SummaCare) twenty years of naming rights for the field with a $5 million donation.[21] FirstMerit Corporation, a financial services company headquartered in Akron, purchased naming rights for the club level seating of the press tower for ten years.[22] Towpath Credit Union pledged $100,000 over five years to secure naming rights to the press box located in top level of the press tower until 2013, with an additional option for a five-year extension through 2018

That's $500,000 per year for stadium naming rights, $250,000 per year for the field naming rights, and $20,000 per year for the press box naming rights. The club level seating isn't listed, but they're getting damn near $800,000 per year for naming rights.

Let's see what the AAC did this year

Won Fiesta Bowl
Won MBB championship
Won WBB Championship
Runner-up in men's NIT
Won women's NIT

Not bad for year 1

(04-08-2014 09:49 PM)HuskieRak Wrote:  Let's see what the AAC did this year

Won Fiesta Bowl
Won MBB championship
Won WBB Championship
Runner-up in men's NIT
Won women's NIT

Not bad for year 1

forget miles, light years ahead of the MAC

Akron has 200k people... Dekalb has 50k....huge diffence..

We should start the "Move NIU to Aurora/Naperville" movement

(04-09-2014 08:11 AM)cartershaw Wrote:  Akron has 200k people... Dekalb has 50k....huge diffence..

We should start the "Move NIU to Aurora/Naperville" movement

That's already started. Have you heard of the NIU-Naperville campus?

NIU could take over the Waubonsee campus, and noone would really notice. Their logos look the same.

What $106 million buys these days in Morgantown, fans are about to find out. Milan Puskar Stadium, home of West Virginia's football team for 34 years, will be the immediate beneficiary of a $106 million renovation of the university's sports facilities, athletic director Oliver Luck said Tuesday. One of the upgrades especially pleases Dana Holgorsen, who has criticized the team meeting room. Among eight renditions of stadium upgrades displayed during Luck's news conference was that of a new team room with large, plush, theater-style seats. Luck said it will cost $5 million, which has been raised by the Mountaineer Athletic Club as part of an overall goal of $25 million. "A football program needs to operate at maximum efficiency in order to be successful," Holgorsen said.

(04-08-2014 09:49 PM)HuskieRak Wrote:  Let's see what the AAC did this year

Won Fiesta Bowl
Won MBB championship
Won WBB Championship
Runner-up in men's NIT
Won women's NIT

Not bad for year 1

+1 The MAC isn't even close and the perception of the conference won't change.

In roundball AAC is in a different world. NIU can't compete there.
In football NIU/MAC are right there. Also, nobody seems to have mentioned that there are four directional schools in the AAC.

(04-09-2014 04:42 PM)sarasotahuskie Wrote:  In roundball AAC is in a different world. NIU can't compete there.
In football NIU/MAC are right there. Also, nobody seems to have mentioned that there are four directional schools in the AAC.

Directional schools with large athletic budgets, large stadiums, large metro areas, etc

UConn $63mm
Cinci $49mm
USF $44mm
UCF $41mm
Memphis $47mm
Houston $37mm


NIU $23mm

We are the Oakland A's of NCAA..Moneyball baby!

(04-09-2014 04:42 PM)sarasotahuskie Wrote:  In roundball AAC is in a different world. NIU can't compete there.
In football NIU/MAC are right there. Also, nobody seems to have mentioned that there are four directional schools in the AAC.

A handful of football programs are but the majority of the MAC is crap. Top to bottom, the AAC will always prevail, especially in the minds of college football media, fans, "experts", and anyone else who has ever had a opinion about cfb.

By the time a conference change happens, I'll probably have two kids and be complaining about pup club pricing but I think it's safe to say that Frazier will set the foundation for the ability to leave the MAC in a handful of years.

(04-09-2014 11:48 PM)HuskieRak Wrote:  

(04-09-2014 04:42 PM)sarasotahuskie Wrote:  In roundball AAC is in a different world. NIU can't compete there.
In football NIU/MAC are right there. Also, nobody seems to have mentioned that there are four directional schools in the AAC.

A handful of football programs are but the majority of the MAC is crap. Top to bottom, the AAC will always prevail, especially in the minds of college football media, fans, "experts", and anyone else who has ever had a opinion about cfb.

By the time a conference change happens, I'll probably have two kids and be complaining about pup club pricing but I think it's safe to say that Frazier will set the foundation for the ability to leave the MAC in a handful of years.

Four AAC teams had .500 or better records in football last year.

And they were still better than the MAC.

(04-10-2014 09:53 AM)PrideinthePack Wrote:  And they were still better than the MAC.

btw One of those winning AAC teams is leaving.

(04-10-2014 10:04 AM)sarasotahuskie Wrote:  

(04-10-2014 09:53 AM)PrideinthePack Wrote:  And they were still better than the MAC.

btw One of those winning AAC teams is leaving.

And that team is being replaced by a program that draws 50K fans and blew out a MAC team in the Beef O'Brady's Bowl.

(04-10-2014 10:14 AM)HuskieTap22 Wrote:  

(04-10-2014 10:04 AM)sarasotahuskie Wrote:  

(04-10-2014 09:53 AM)PrideinthePack Wrote:  And they were still better than the MAC.

btw One of those winning AAC teams is leaving.

And that team is being replaced by a program that draws 50K fans and blew out a MAC team in the Beef O'Brady's Bowl.

OK. They're back to 4 winning teams. Congratulations to ECU for beating Ohio - 4-4 in the MAC East. Is 17 points a blow out?

(04-09-2014 11:48 PM)HuskieRak Wrote:  

(04-09-2014 04:42 PM)sarasotahuskie Wrote:  In roundball AAC is in a different world. NIU can't compete there.
In football NIU/MAC are right there. Also, nobody seems to have mentioned that there are four directional schools in the AAC.

A handful of football programs are but the majority of the MAC is crap. Top to bottom, the AAC will always prevail, especially in the minds of college football media, fans, "experts", and anyone else who has ever had a opinion about cfb.

By the time a conference change happens, I'll probably have two kids and be complaining about pup club pricing but I think it's safe to say that Frazier will set the foundation for the ability to leave the MAC in a handful of years.

Mr. Frazier has a difficult job because he needs to move the program forward with limited resources. An early test for him is whether he is able to get us some reasonable radio presence in the coming season.