(05-28-2014 08:18 AM)CommuterBob Wrote: The national preception of the AAC last year was "why is this conference AQ? It shouldn't be. They've lost all their best teams." Now it's "this conference is G5 (non-AQ)."
The AAC got snubbed by the NCAA selection committees for both baseball and basketball. The AAC has kind of walked this tightrope between power/non-power all year and has been pushed to fall on the non-power side.
Insightful.
In basketball, the NCAA committee seeded American teams by their RPI, not their national rank:
Louisville, ranked 5th, 20th RPI, 4 seed
Cincy, ranked 12th, 21st RPI, 5 seed
Memphis, ranked 19th, 36th RPI, 8 seed
UConn, ranked 21st, 22nd RPI, 7 seed
SMU, ranked 23rd, 55th RPI, snubbed
In baseball, they ignored RPI in UH's seeding, and they ignored RPI in snubbing #48 UCF in favor of #54 Cal St Fullerton, #49 Clemson.
Seems we can't win with the selection committee this year. This is telling in how highly regarded our league is by those who matter, and the relative lack of gravitas of our commissioner and ADs.
We had no one on the basketball selection committee in 2014. And we have no one on it next year.
We had no one on the baseball selection committee. The chair of that committee is the Big West commissioner. See Cal St Fullerton.
The closest thing we have to a representative on the football playoff committee is Mike Tranghese, who was commissioner of the old Big East until 2009. He's familiar with Cincy, UConn & USF I guess. The MWC rep is the retired Air Force super. (The other G5 conferences have no representation.)