As a true expansion candidate: I vote for Charlie's Angels. They can have my back and front for that matter, any time.

BYU
Boise
Colorado State
James Madison
Old Dominion
Charlotte
Marshall
Western Kentucky
Norther Illinois
Middle Tennessee

(03-24-2015 11:13 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(03-24-2015 10:40 PM)SDSU-Alum2003 Wrote:  

(03-24-2015 09:32 AM)perimeterpost Wrote:  You want the best of the rest from the G5, here's your candidate pool-

Top 10 G5-AAC schools by 2015 USNWR Ranking-
#18 Rice
#75 Miami (OH)
#91 UMass
#109 Buffalo
#121 Colorado St
#135 Ohio
#149 San Diego St
#152 UAB
#158 Hawaii
#161 Wyoming

Top 10 G5-AAC schools by FB winning %, BCS era to present ('97-'14)-
#1 Boise St (.813)
#27 Marshall (.626)
#29 Toledo (.620)
#36 Fresno St (.595)
#38 Northern Illinois (.590)
#39 Air Force (.583)
#48 Southern Miss (.547)
#54 Bowling Green (.530)
#56 Colorado St (.525)
#60 Troy (.501)

Top 10 G5-AAC schools by Total Annual Revenue Earned-
$44.3m New Mexico
$43.2m Boise St
$39.2m San Diego St
$39.0m Air Force
$37.3m Army
$37.0m Hawaii
$36.9m Old Dominion
$34.8m Colorado St
$33.7m Fresno St
$30.1m New Mexico St

Top 10 G5-AAC schools by NCAA Tournament bids (men's basketball)-
23 Western Kentucky
20 UNLV
20 Utah State
17 Miami (OH)
17 UTEP
15 UAB
15 Wyoming
15 New Mexico
13 Ohio
11 Charlotte
11 Old Dominion
11 San Diego St

How about TV Ratings and DMA Rank?

Top 10 G5 schools by TV rating

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53 Rice
55 Boise St.
56 SDSU
57 BYU
58 Northern Illinois
66 Fresno State
68 Air Force
71 Utah State
75 Nevada
78 San Jose State

Top 10 G5 schools by DMA

10 Houston - Rice
17 Denver-Boulder-Fort Collins - Colorado State
28 San Diego - SDSU
33 Salt Lake-Provo-Logan - BYU
42 Las Vegas-Henderson - UNLV
47 Albuquerque - New Mexico
55 Fresno-Visalia - Fresno State
69 Honolulu - Hawaii
89 Colorado Springs-Pueblo - Air Force
107 Reno - Nevada
110 Boise - Boise St.

Bro don't make this difficult. You know we wanted you, and we still want you, but that ***** Boise just had to ruin things for us.

Long distance relationships. Tough

The only schools that I would add to the AAC are BYU,AirForce Academy,Army, or Colorado State . No one from CUSA but Rice and definitely no one from the Sunbelt or MAC.

Feel free to rescue Toledo from he MAC. Having to watch games against teams like Eastern Michigan and Kent State is dreadful.

1. BYU
2. Boise State
3. Air Force
4. San Diego St.
5. UNLV

Get rid of Tulane.

What about an AAC Top 1 expulsion candidate?

Air Force and Colorado State ...two of the original "Gang of 5" in the Mountain West

This would be a huge win for the American conference

1. BYU (Don't think BYU is interested)
2. Boise State (Boise State might be interested with how crappy the MWC is and the AAC looking like a good league)
3. Air Force (Same as Boise State, could be paired with Boise State if they wanted to go to 14, would work well with Navy and if Army came along)
4. Army (Would work great as football only, could be paired with Air Force to get to 14 if AAC wanted to expand)
5. Marshall (Would make sense as Marshall has been a good football school lately, decent size stadium, good regional get)
Other Schools (that make sense): Southern Miss, Toledo, Northern Illinois, SDSU

Realistically though, I don't see the AAC expanding or getting rid of Tulane and/or Tulsa.

I think Army or Air Force for football only would be a nice get.

Please no Sunbelt or CUSA members except maybe Rice. These schools would in my opinion degrade the value of the AAC. Bring on BYU,Colorado State,Army or Air Force.

I don't see the big hoopla with Colorado State at all, because they're in the Denver market? They're building a new stadium that's nice? They're a mediocre to decent program in a decent market. They might be a better get than Marshall, I suppose.

Air Force & BYU or Air Force & Army would make a lot of sense. I don't see any team outside of Boise State, BYU, and MAYBE Air Force bringing much value to the conference.

No one wants Marshall,in Hicksville, or any CUSA,MAC or Sunbelt members other than possibly Rice if Houston does not black ball them. Two problems Houston does not like them and would be a duplicate Houston market team. . Positives a top ten academic university,beautiful campus and athletic facilities,large endowment in a great part of town.

(11-06-2015 02:04 PM)AuzGrams Wrote:  I don't see the big hoopla with Colorado State at all, because they're in the Denver market? They're building a new stadium that's nice? They're a mediocre to decent program in a decent market. They might be a better get than Marshall, I suppose.

Air Force & BYU or Air Force & Army would make a lot of sense. I don't see any team outside of Boise State, BYU, and MAYBE Air Force bringing much value to the conference.

The only conference that's really discussed for #6 right now is the MWC. Other conferences (the MAC) have good years sometimes now and then, but not sustained. I think if the AAC lost 2 teams, that gap would be really tight between AAC/MWC. It would make sense for the AAC to try to take teams directly from the MWC to weaken it at the same time as strengthening themselves.