If your team doesn't get selected for the Big 12 (you, being a fan of the AAC), then the next best option is for Boise State and BYU to be picked up.

Truth be told, together, those options make a hell of a lot of sense (albeit being western members, when the Big 1/2 said they wanted to go East), but if Boise and BYU get snapped up, that turns the Boise State Show + MWC into the Western MAC.

With no one in our way, we can really make it the P6 much easier. I almost hope this happens.

(06-26-2015 04:22 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  If your team doesn't get selected for the Big 12 (you, being a fan of the AAC), then the next best option is for Boise State and BYU to be picked up.

Truth be told, together, those options make a hell of a lot of sense (albeit being western members, when the Big 1/2 said they wanted to go East), but if Boise and BYU get snapped up, that turns the Boise State Show + MWC into the Western MAC.

With no one in our way, we can really make it the P6 much easier. I almost hope this happens.

if ECU doesn't get picked up, I hope no current AAC members do because a watered down AAC has a much better chance at getting plucked by the MWC as the AAC has at plucking MWC schools. Not sure why people on here think that this current line up-2 will look good to MWC. I admit I don't get it....

If the B12 doesn't expand then I have two wishes, one short, one long:

short: the AAC adds Boise, SDSU, AF, and Col. state while making a run at BYU as well.

then, after the Texoma four bolt (which is what will happen if the B12 doesn't expand...this means the conference is dying and so the death knell will be Texas, Tech, OU, and OKiSt bolting) then my wish would be for the following to happen:

Baylor, WVA, ISU, TCU, Kst., KU add UC, Memphis, UH, Boise, BYU, and one other team between the AAC and MWC.

Heh, I was just thinking of starting a "if any two of us leave--how boned are the rest of us?" thread.

I just don't see what we'll be able to do to attract our Western counterparts--we could barely attract them when Rutgers and Louisville were in the fold. Somebody's got to want to pay some money for a new national tweener league and I have the impression the networks are getting sick of throwing money at college sports. Are there any Russian billionaires with an interest in college football?

(06-26-2015 04:26 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(06-26-2015 04:22 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  If your team doesn't get selected for the Big 12 (you, being a fan of the AAC), then the next best option is for Boise State and BYU to be picked up.

Truth be told, together, those options make a hell of a lot of sense (albeit being western members, when the Big 1/2 said they wanted to go East), but if Boise and BYU get snapped up, that turns the Boise State Show + MWC into the Western MAC.

With no one in our way, we can really make it the P6 much easier. I almost hope this happens.

if ECU doesn't get picked up, I hope no current AAC members do because a watered down AAC has a much better chance at getting plucked by the MWC as the AAC has at plucking MWC schools. Not sure why people on here think that this current line up-2 will look good to MWC. I admit I don't get it....

Yup. Its bad enough not being picked for a power conference promotion---but whats worse is those left behind are automatically demoted into a worse conference. I'll admit, I will be disappointed if this fate befalls Houston.

Worse yet, I see no way to fix the AAC. Merging with the top 6-10 MW schools would fix it---but why would the MW teams do that since they would be the clear top G5 conference once we lose two of our better schools. I see no additions that help the remaining AAC teams pick up ground on MW football.

I do see a way to rebuild basketball to a significant degree by adding Wichita, Dayton and one other basketball school. One of the reasons I have supported adding these non-football members since the inception of the conference was that it is much easier to grab these teams NOW while we are a very attractive basketball conference. It becomes tougher after you lose a pair of your basketball power teams.

Beyond that, I see no easy fix for football once we lose a pair of top schools . It appears to me that standing pat at 10 for football is the only option beyond adding MW schools. Adding a bunch of Marshall's, NIU's, UMass's, or UTSA's wont close the gap. The one thing this league has is big athletic budgets (for the G5). These alternative options just lower the average budget (quality) of the league. Adding any of them would just turn us into a more watered down version of CUSA 4.0. So, standing pat in football is the only viable plan.

(06-26-2015 05:30 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  If the B12 doesn't expand then I have two wishes, one short, one long:

short: the AAC adds Boise, SDSU, AF, and Col. state while making a run at BYU as well.

then, after the Texoma four bolt (which is what will happen if the B12 doesn't expand...this means the conference is dying and so the death knell will be Texas, Tech, OU, and OKiSt bolting) then my wish would be for the following to happen:

Baylor, WVA, ISU, TCU, Kst., KU add UC, Memphis, UH, Boise, BYU, and one other team between the AAC and MWC.

Would UC and Memphis be enough to placate WV? I am thinking they would also want a Florida school in the mix as well.

Destroying the MWC in order to weaken it should be our #1 goal. Great a western division and easily become the 6th best conference.

(06-26-2015 06:05 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Destroying the MWC in order to weaken it should be our #1 goal. Great a western division and easily become the 6th best conference.

lol..."destroying" the MWC would surely "weaken" the MWC

You guys seriously believe that if the Big XII takes two top AAC teams, MWC teams would want a part of this conference? Not happening. The MWC would be on the phone with Houston and SMU for membership. Hell, we might even take Tulsa, too.

(06-26-2015 06:18 PM)UNLVFan90 Wrote:  You guys seriously believe that if the Big XII takes two top AAC teams, MWC teams would want a part of this conference? Not happening. The MWC would be on the phone with Houston and SMU for membership. Hell, we might even take Tulsa, too.

I think the thing to do is sit pat, wait for Texas, OU, OksT, and Tech to bolt and then lobby WVA, Kstate, KU, Baylor, ISU, and TCU for admission. AAC and MWC would all have a shot. I bet they would add six...a combo from the AAC and MWC at that point.

it wouldn't be a power conference but the payout would be better than either of us have now in the mwc or aac.

I'm betting this happens before the B12 takes two teams....

(06-26-2015 06:05 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Destroying the MWC in order to weaken it should be our #1 goal. Great a western division and easily become the 6th best conference.

Yes, but we can only do that from a position of strength. We're going to have to prove ourselves over the next 5 or 6 years. Then we may be able to poach some schools.

We can't do it while our football rankings are in the gutter.

If ECU doesn't get selected I hope its because we accepted that SEC invite the day before :D

(06-26-2015 06:04 PM)uhmump95 Wrote:  

(06-26-2015 05:30 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  If the B12 doesn't expand then I have two wishes, one short, one long:

short: the AAC adds Boise, SDSU, AF, and Col. state while making a run at BYU as well.

then, after the Texoma four bolt (which is what will happen if the B12 doesn't expand...this means the conference is dying and so the death knell will be Texas, Tech, OU, and OKiSt bolting) then my wish would be for the following to happen:

Baylor, WVA, ISU, TCU, Kst., KU add UC, Memphis, UH, Boise, BYU, and one other team between the AAC and MWC.

Would UC and Memphis be enough to placate WV? I am thinking they would also want a Florida school in the mix as well.

WV isn't going anywhere, so they would have to be placated.

(06-26-2015 06:11 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(06-26-2015 06:05 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Destroying the MWC in order to weaken it should be our #1 goal. Great a western division and easily become the 6th best conference.

lol..."destroying" the MWC would surely "weaken" the MWC

Overkill?

Whatever teams are left may create a national football only conference with hope of retaining a strength of schedule and an alliance.

The remaining sports may wish to join regional conferences.

Example- If Connecticut does not get chosen, it would try to hook up with a national conference from San Diego to Texas to Florida to the northeast for football and join the Big East for the remaining sports.

Create two mega divisions between the MWC and the AAC ---> use revenue to self-establish as a pseudo-P5

Merge w the Mwc and become a super conf.

I'll root for Cincy no matter where they play, playing and beating top schools from other conferences is what I hope to see UC do on a regular basis in the future.

(06-26-2015 07:28 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(06-26-2015 06:11 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(06-26-2015 06:05 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Destroying the MWC in order to weaken it should be our #1 goal. Great a western division and easily become the 6th best conference.

lol..."destroying" the MWC would surely "weaken" the MWC

Overkill?

haha.. .perhaps a bit. Cheers!

(06-26-2015 06:05 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Destroying the MWC in order to weaken it should be our #1 goal. Great a western division and easily become the 6th best conference.

Huh, well good luck with that