You cannot have a top G5 conference without Tulane first of all and second the AAC is the conference of top G5 schools. It has already been done so nothing really else to discuss here.

(11-20-2015 11:06 PM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  You cannot have a top G5 conference without Tulane first of all and second the AAC is the conference of top G5 schools. It has already been done so nothing really else to discuss here.

Last I checked Boise isn't in the AAC.

(11-20-2015 11:06 PM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  You cannot have a top G5 conference without Tulane first of all and second the AAC is the conference of top G5 schools. It has already been done so nothing really else to discuss here.

The ONLY reason Tulane is in the AAC is because UConn personally lobbied for them in return for an AAU vote when it comes time for B1G membership.

(11-20-2015 11:06 PM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  You cannot have a top G5 conference without Tulane first of all and second the AAC is the conference of top G5 schools. It has already been done so nothing really else to discuss here.

They said TOP... Tulane is not a top G5 team. Nobody outside Tulane believe thats. You may have some value to the AAC but to imply Tulane is even close to the halfway mark of the FBS is absurd. Man i want whatever you're smoking.

Jesus man... 3-7?!?!?! You can't even get above .500, GTFO with "top G5" team. And i cant wait for the injury excuse... they happen, good teams move past them.

why is that every schleprock that invents a new all-star conference always includes their own team, even if that team blows?

(11-20-2015 11:39 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 11:06 PM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  You cannot have a top G5 conference without Tulane first of all and second the AAC is the conference of top G5 schools. It has already been done so nothing really else to discuss here.

They said TOP... Tulane is not a top G5 team. Nobody outside Tulane believe thats. You may have some value to the AAC but to imply Tulane is even close to the halfway mark of the FBS is absurd. Man i want whatever you're smoking.

Jesus man... 3-7?!?!?! You can't even get above .500, GTFO with "top G5" team. And i cant wait for the injury excuse... they happen, good teams move past them.

Today, for a conference to succeed and be viable you need a collection of schools that have markets and academics. Winning games is about as important as what kind of soft drinks they sell at the stadiums. Sure you could add no-market schools that have somewhat winning traditions like Southern Miss, Marshall, or Miami, OH but then your conference would fold in like two years because of the garbage you let in. Tulane is on the short list for the Big 12 and honestly we should have been in the Big Ten years ago. Of course we are one of the top G5 programs out there. The AAC took us over USM, Marshall, UAB, and so on for a reason. They know we take a conference to the next level with our superb academics and our exciting market. In the world of conference realignment, Tulane is one of the top dogs. Deal with it.

(11-21-2015 12:48 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 11:39 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 11:06 PM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  You cannot have a top G5 conference without Tulane first of all and second the AAC is the conference of top G5 schools. It has already been done so nothing really else to discuss here.

They said TOP... Tulane is not a top G5 team. Nobody outside Tulane believe thats. You may have some value to the AAC but to imply Tulane is even close to the halfway mark of the FBS is absurd. Man i want whatever you're smoking.

Jesus man... 3-7?!?!?! You can't even get above .500, GTFO with "top G5" team. And i cant wait for the injury excuse... they happen, good teams move past them.

Today, for a conference to succeed and be viable you need a collection of schools that have markets and academics. Winning games is about as important as what kind of soft drinks they sell at the stadiums. Sure you could add no-market schools that have somewhat winning traditions like Southern Miss, Marshall, or Miami, OH but then your conference would fold in like two years because of the garbage you let in. Tulane is on the short list for the Big 12 and honestly we should have been in the Big Ten years ago. Of course we are one of the top G5 programs out there. The AAC took us over USM, Marshall, UAB, and so on for a reason. They know we take a conference to the next level with our superb academics and our exciting market. In the world of conference realignment, Tulane is one of the top dogs. Deal with it.

BAHAHAHAHA TULANE SHORT LIST FOR THE B12?!?!?!?! OH MY GOD STOP I'M DYING!!!

ok, ok... I'm good...


NOOOOOPPPEEEE HAHAHAHAHAHA STILL HILARIOUS YOU THINK TULANE IS ON THE B12 SHORT LIST?!?!?!

I was taking you seriously then saw your rep. Makes sense now. Thanks for that laugh though, haven't laughed that good (and i mean legitimately laughed out loud at my phone's screen) since i read that illinois state troll get caught up in his lies in the MAC board


Hahahaha short list for the B12... jesus lol

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(11-21-2015 12:58 AM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 12:48 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 11:39 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 11:06 PM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  You cannot have a top G5 conference without Tulane first of all and second the AAC is the conference of top G5 schools. It has already been done so nothing really else to discuss here.

They said TOP... Tulane is not a top G5 team. Nobody outside Tulane believe thats. You may have some value to the AAC but to imply Tulane is even close to the halfway mark of the FBS is absurd. Man i want whatever you're smoking.

Jesus man... 3-7?!?!?! You can't even get above .500, GTFO with "top G5" team. And i cant wait for the injury excuse... they happen, good teams move past them.

Today, for a conference to succeed and be viable you need a collection of schools that have markets and academics. Winning games is about as important as what kind of soft drinks they sell at the stadiums. Sure you could add no-market schools that have somewhat winning traditions like Southern Miss, Marshall, or Miami, OH but then your conference would fold in like two years because of the garbage you let in. Tulane is on the short list for the Big 12 and honestly we should have been in the Big Ten years ago. Of course we are one of the top G5 programs out there. The AAC took us over USM, Marshall, UAB, and so on for a reason. They know we take a conference to the next level with our superb academics and our exciting market. In the world of conference realignment, Tulane is one of the top dogs. Deal with it.

BAHAHAHAHA TULANE SHORT LIST FOR THE B12?!?!?!?! OH MY GOD STOP I'M DYING!!!

ok, ok... I'm good...


NOOOOOPPPEEEE HAHAHAHAHAHA STILL HILARIOUS YOU THINK TULANE IS ON THE B12 SHORT LIST?!?!?!

I was taking you seriously then saw your rep. Makes sense now. Thanks for that laugh though, haven't laughed that good (and i mean legitimately laughed out loud at my phone's screen) since i read that illinois state troll get caught up in his lies in the MAC board


Hahahaha short list for the B12... jesus lol

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http://slumz.boxden.com/f16/big-12-looki...z-1626955/

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2015/6/...ealignment

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/132...avid-boren


I could back a few years and find more but you get the idea.

(11-21-2015 01:06 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 12:58 AM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 12:48 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 11:39 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 11:06 PM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  You cannot have a top G5 conference without Tulane first of all and second the AAC is the conference of top G5 schools. It has already been done so nothing really else to discuss here.

They said TOP... Tulane is not a top G5 team. Nobody outside Tulane believe thats. You may have some value to the AAC but to imply Tulane is even close to the halfway mark of the FBS is absurd. Man i want whatever you're smoking.

Jesus man... 3-7?!?!?! You can't even get above .500, GTFO with "top G5" team. And i cant wait for the injury excuse... they happen, good teams move past them.

Today, for a conference to succeed and be viable you need a collection of schools that have markets and academics. Winning games is about as important as what kind of soft drinks they sell at the stadiums. Sure you could add no-market schools that have somewhat winning traditions like Southern Miss, Marshall, or Miami, OH but then your conference would fold in like two years because of the garbage you let in. Tulane is on the short list for the Big 12 and honestly we should have been in the Big Ten years ago. Of course we are one of the top G5 programs out there. The AAC took us over USM, Marshall, UAB, and so on for a reason. They know we take a conference to the next level with our superb academics and our exciting market. In the world of conference realignment, Tulane is one of the top dogs. Deal with it.

BAHAHAHAHA TULANE SHORT LIST FOR THE B12?!?!?!?! OH MY GOD STOP I'M DYING!!!

ok, ok... I'm good...


NOOOOOPPPEEEE HAHAHAHAHAHA STILL HILARIOUS YOU THINK TULANE IS ON THE B12 SHORT LIST?!?!?!

I was taking you seriously then saw your rep. Makes sense now. Thanks for that laugh though, haven't laughed that good (and i mean legitimately laughed out loud at my phone's screen) since i read that illinois state troll get caught up in his lies in the MAC board


Hahahaha short list for the B12... jesus lol

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http://slumz.boxden.com/f16/big-12-looki...z-1626955/

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2015/6/...ealignment

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/132...avid-boren


I could back a few years and find more but you get the idea.

So one is from 4 years ago and the others list you as last or a low-priority option...

Definitely the short list hahahaha

Please do yourself and Tulane a favor, stop embarrassing yourself and just casually back out of the topic. It's just sad now

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(11-21-2015 01:10 AM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 01:06 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 12:58 AM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 12:48 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 11:39 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  They said TOP... Tulane is not a top G5 team. Nobody outside Tulane believe thats. You may have some value to the AAC but to imply Tulane is even close to the halfway mark of the FBS is absurd. Man i want whatever you're smoking.

Jesus man... 3-7?!?!?! You can't even get above .500, GTFO with "top G5" team. And i cant wait for the injury excuse... they happen, good teams move past them.

Today, for a conference to succeed and be viable you need a collection of schools that have markets and academics. Winning games is about as important as what kind of soft drinks they sell at the stadiums. Sure you could add no-market schools that have somewhat winning traditions like Southern Miss, Marshall, or Miami, OH but then your conference would fold in like two years because of the garbage you let in. Tulane is on the short list for the Big 12 and honestly we should have been in the Big Ten years ago. Of course we are one of the top G5 programs out there. The AAC took us over USM, Marshall, UAB, and so on for a reason. They know we take a conference to the next level with our superb academics and our exciting market. In the world of conference realignment, Tulane is one of the top dogs. Deal with it.

BAHAHAHAHA TULANE SHORT LIST FOR THE B12?!?!?!?! OH MY GOD STOP I'M DYING!!!

ok, ok... I'm good...


NOOOOOPPPEEEE HAHAHAHAHAHA STILL HILARIOUS YOU THINK TULANE IS ON THE B12 SHORT LIST?!?!?!

I was taking you seriously then saw your rep. Makes sense now. Thanks for that laugh though, haven't laughed that good (and i mean legitimately laughed out loud at my phone's screen) since i read that illinois state troll get caught up in his lies in the MAC board


Hahahaha short list for the B12... jesus lol

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http://slumz.boxden.com/f16/big-12-looki...z-1626955/

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2015/6/...ealignment

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/132...avid-boren


I could back a few years and find more but you get the idea.

So one is from 4 years ago and the others list you as last or a low-priority option...

Definitely the short list hahahaha

Please do yourself and Tulane a favor, stop embarrassing yourself and just casually back out of the topic. It's just sad now

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I sense a hint of jealousy from you, I would say it is because your school is not mentioned but that is not it. They would not have a shot regardless, I think it is because we are in the AAC and you are stuck in the MAC. Silly person, the AAC is for big boy athletic programs not glorified junior colleges. Maybe you can go play pretend and put a fake AAC logo on your NIU helmet or something, that is about as close as you will ever get to being in our conference.

(11-20-2015 08:31 PM)shizzle787 Wrote:  Here is what I am thinking:
West:
BYU
Boise State
Houston
SMU
Navy (football-only)
UNLV
East:
UConn
Cincy
USF
UCF
Memphis
Temple

The AAC was just created as a greatest hits conference out of former MAC/CUSA/Big East football schools.

They can't kick anyone they've admitted out and if they try and expand beyond 12 its more mouths to feed.

Navy is adamant about playing in the same division as the private schools. That would become an issue if the AAC expanded by more than a couple of schools West because Navy would have to stay East.

Taking Colorado State and Air Force would rip the heart out of the MWC and might be doable from a travel perspective as Denver's airport is a hub. Add an academy (a good academy) and a good in-state rivalry to the conference with AFA-CSU.

AAC Football

West: Air Force, Colorado St, Houston, SMU, Tulsa, Tulane, Navy
East: Memphis, Cincinnati, East Carolina, UCF, USF, Temple, UConn

There is no need to take the AAC footprint all the way to Las Vegas or the west coast. Dominance can be established over the MWC with AFA/CSU. Then the MWC sits at 10 schools and is recreation of the Boise led WAC with Utah/BYU/AFA/CSU/TCU the best properties from the old MWC with homes elsewhere.

(11-21-2015 01:17 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 01:10 AM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 01:06 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 12:58 AM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(11-21-2015 12:48 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  Today, for a conference to succeed and be viable you need a collection of schools that have markets and academics. Winning games is about as important as what kind of soft drinks they sell at the stadiums. Sure you could add no-market schools that have somewhat winning traditions like Southern Miss, Marshall, or Miami, OH but then your conference would fold in like two years because of the garbage you let in. Tulane is on the short list for the Big 12 and honestly we should have been in the Big Ten years ago. Of course we are one of the top G5 programs out there. The AAC took us over USM, Marshall, UAB, and so on for a reason. They know we take a conference to the next level with our superb academics and our exciting market. In the world of conference realignment, Tulane is one of the top dogs. Deal with it.

BAHAHAHAHA TULANE SHORT LIST FOR THE B12?!?!?!?! OH MY GOD STOP I'M DYING!!!

ok, ok... I'm good...


NOOOOOPPPEEEE HAHAHAHAHAHA STILL HILARIOUS YOU THINK TULANE IS ON THE B12 SHORT LIST?!?!?!

I was taking you seriously then saw your rep. Makes sense now. Thanks for that laugh though, haven't laughed that good (and i mean legitimately laughed out loud at my phone's screen) since i read that illinois state troll get caught up in his lies in the MAC board


Hahahaha short list for the B12... jesus lol

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http://slumz.boxden.com/f16/big-12-looki...z-1626955/

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2015/6/...ealignment

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/132...avid-boren


I could back a few years and find more but you get the idea.

So one is from 4 years ago and the others list you as last or a low-priority option...

Definitely the short list hahahaha

Please do yourself and Tulane a favor, stop embarrassing yourself and just casually back out of the topic. It's just sad now

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I sense a hint of jealousy from you, I would say it is because your school is not mentioned but that is not it. They would not have a shot regardless, I think it is because we are in the AAC and you are stuck in the MAC. Silly person, the AAC is for big boy athletic programs not glorified junior colleges. Maybe you can go play pretend and put a fake AAC logo on your NIU helmet or something, that is about as close as you will ever get to being in our conference.

Oh god, now he's pontificating... hahaha ok buddy, whatever helps you sleep at night easier at 3-7...

3-7... bahahahaha

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This must be the 20th "best of the rest" conference thread started on this board in the past two years... maybe in the past year. A lot of folks just can't seem to let go of the idea, but the reality is that if it would make a group of G5 schools better off to form a coast-to-coast conference it would have already happened. It wouldn't, and it won't.

(11-20-2015 08:31 PM)shizzle787 Wrote:  Here is what I am thinking:
West:
BYU
Boise State
Houston
SMU
Navy (football-only)
UNLV
East:
UConn
Cincy
USF
UCF
Memphis
Temple

Why didn't you just rephrase it as asking whether the AAC should add BYU and Boise?

(11-21-2015 01:40 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  

(11-20-2015 08:31 PM)shizzle787 Wrote:  Here is what I am thinking:
West:
BYU
Boise State
Houston
SMU
Navy (football-only)
UNLV
East:
UConn
Cincy
USF
UCF
Memphis
Temple

Why didn't you just rephrase it as asking whether the AAC should add BYU and Boise?

And UNLV

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No I left them out intentionally, he's essentially asking why didn't go with the Big East setup from 2012.

(11-21-2015 12:48 AM)GreenWave16 Wrote:  Today, for a conference to succeed and be viable you need a collection of schools that have markets and academics. Winning games is about as important as what kind of soft drinks they sell at the stadiums.

Except to have a market, winning games is required. A school can be located in a market, but that doesn't guarantee them a substantial share of audience in that market.

And Tulane is a case in point: a market that shrunk substantially, in which Tulane only holds a minority audience share.

Quote: Sure you could add no-market schools that have somewhat winning traditions like Southern Miss, Marshall, or Miami, OH but then your conference would fold in like two years because of the garbage you let in.

Bear in mind that the reason that "fold in two years" does not apply to the old Big East when they let Tulane in is that it took far fewer than two years before the C7 worked out they would do better with 100% of a Basketball-first conference deal from Fox Sports than with 30% of a FB-first deal for a Go5 conference.

Quote: Tulane is on the short list for the Big 12 and honestly we should have been in the Big Ten years ago.

If Tulane is the only option available for the Big Ten to expand, the Big Ten won't expand, and ditto the Big12.

Quote: Of course we are one of the top G5 programs out there. The AAC took us over USM, Marshall, UAB, and so on for a reason.

The AAC took a number of schools, and it was indeed for a reason, but in the process the networks, as well as Boise State and SDSU, took a look at the result and said, "not really getting a power conference feeling from a conference with the likes of Tulane in it."

Quote: They know we take a conference to the next level with our superb academics and our exciting market.

Except you don't "have" your market, and its not really all that tremendously exciting.

Quote: In the world of conference realignment, Tulane is one of the top dogs. Deal with it.

In the world of conference realignment, Tulane as one of the top dogs is one of the top delusions out there. Congratulations, you have come close to taking the cake.

(11-21-2015 01:26 AM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  This must be the 20th "best of the rest" conference thread started on this board in the past two years... maybe in the past year.

I think they already did. and called it the AAC.