We need to stop waiting on the Big12....being way too reactive. This conference obviously has value....just about all of us on the magical short list for Big12 pretend expansion. We should he going hard after the best teams left. Create a league that has to be considered the best of the rest. Not better, the best.

Take your pick:
BYU
Boise
CSU
SDS
NIU
Air Force
Army
Wichita State

NIU in all these AAC topics after the B12 revealed they are interested in us



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(08-12-2016 12:14 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  NIU in all these AAC topics after the B12 revealed they are interested in us



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(08-12-2016 12:40 PM)8BitPirate Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:14 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  NIU in all these AAC topics after the B12 revealed they are interested in us



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Lmao

We're gonna probably be conference mates soon buddy, might as well start learning to like us!

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(08-12-2016 12:12 PM)isidnirb Wrote:  We need to stop waiting on the Big12....being way too reactive. This conference obviously has value....just about all of us on the magical short list for Big12 pretend expansion. We should he going hard after the best teams left. Create a league that has to be considered the best of the rest. Not better, the best.

Take your pick:
BYU
Boise
CSU
SDS
NIU
Air Force
Army
Wichita State

App State, Georgia Southern and Arkansas State have higher upside than 5 of those schools you just mentioned.

(08-12-2016 12:42 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:12 PM)isidnirb Wrote:  We need to stop waiting on the Big12....being way too reactive. This conference obviously has value....just about all of us on the magical short list for Big12 pretend expansion. We should he going hard after the best teams left. Create a league that has to be considered the best of the rest. Not better, the best.

Take your pick:
BYU
Boise
CSU
SDS
NIU
Air Force
Army
Wichita State

App State, Georgia Southern and Arkansas State have higher upside than 5 of those schools you just mentioned.

(08-12-2016 12:42 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:12 PM)isidnirb Wrote:  We need to stop waiting on the Big12....being way too reactive. This conference obviously has value....just about all of us on the magical short list for Big12 pretend expansion. We should he going hard after the best teams left. Create a league that has to be considered the best of the rest. Not better, the best.

Take your pick:
BYU
Boise
CSU
SDS
NIU
Air Force
Army
Wichita State

App State, Georgia Southern and Arkansas State have higher upside than 5 of those schools you just mentioned.

Curious which 5 you think

Going off elimination mode...

BYU has more upside than both of us, so nope

But who are the other 5

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I see NO benefit to adding NIU. No offense but they have no penetration in their market, horrid basketball and create another island in a cold weather location.

(08-12-2016 12:44 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:42 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:12 PM)isidnirb Wrote:  We need to stop waiting on the Big12....being way too reactive. This conference obviously has value....just about all of us on the magical short list for Big12 pretend expansion. We should he going hard after the best teams left. Create a league that has to be considered the best of the rest. Not better, the best.

Take your pick:
BYU
Boise
CSU
SDS
NIU
Air Force
Army
Wichita State

App State, Georgia Southern and Arkansas State have higher upside than 5 of those schools you just mentioned.

Curious which 5 you think

Going off elimination mode...

BYU has more upside than both of us, so nope

But who are the other 5

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Wichita State (No football of course)
Army (Outside of using Government money)
Air Force (Same thing)
CSU
Boise (Based on academics and the state of Idaho)

NIU has solid academics and athletics programs all around and BYU, much like Liberty, has the ability to tap into their fundamentalist groups to demand payment (which works) because Liberty used to be a college in Lynchburg and now Lynchburg is a city that Liberty is in.

(08-12-2016 12:46 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I see NO benefit to adding NIU. No offense but they have no penetration in their market, horrid basketball and create another island in a cold weather location.

Since when is a 21 win season and postseason play horrid? Plus we just had a phenomenal recruiting class come in as well...

But an ECU fan trashing our basketball IS funny haha

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(08-12-2016 12:51 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:46 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I see NO benefit to adding NIU. No offense but they have no penetration in their market, horrid basketball and create another island in a cold weather location.

Since when is a 21 win season and postseason play horrid? Plus we just had a phenomenal recruiting class come in as well...

But an ECU fan trashing our basketball IS fun haha

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I just cringed reading the comment about basketball.

(08-12-2016 12:44 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:42 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:12 PM)isidnirb Wrote:  We need to stop waiting on the Big12....being way too reactive. This conference obviously has value....just about all of us on the magical short list for Big12 pretend expansion. We should he going hard after the best teams left. Create a league that has to be considered the best of the rest. Not better, the best.

Take your pick:
BYU
Boise
CSU
SDS
NIU
Air Force
Army
Wichita State

App State, Georgia Southern and Arkansas State have higher upside than 5 of those schools you just mentioned.

You did see where App State is 50th in preseason and you are 109th. This is App's second season in full FBS and they already did something that Boise and Marshall didn't do as well as something no Sun Belt football program has done.

Win 11 games, Win a bowl game in their first eligible season. Out recruit and finish in rankings higher than ECU. Academics are rated higher than ECU's. The only thing missing is the athletic budget which would also increase with a move to a conference with more money and more appeal on a week to week basis.

(08-12-2016 12:51 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:46 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I see NO benefit to adding NIU. No offense but they have no penetration in their market, horrid basketball and create another island in a cold weather location.

Since when is a 21 win season and postseason play horrid? Plus we just had a phenomenal recruiting class come in as well...

But an ECU fan trashing our basketball IS funny haha

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One season. Yes, our basketball is putrid as well but historically we're about the same. We have a better fanbase, baseball and location.

(08-12-2016 12:54 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  You did see where App State is 50th in preseason and you are 109th. This is App's second season in full FBS and they already did something that Boise and Marshall didn't do as well as something no Sun Belt football program has done.

Win 11 games, Win a bowl game in their first eligible season. Out recruit and finish in rankings higher than ECU. Academics are rated higher than ECU's. The only thing missing is the athletic budget which would also increase with a move to a conference with more money and more appeal on a week to week basis.

I hate to break this to you but you beat a buch of FCS teams essentially. Source your claims on the bold.
It doesn't really matter. App State should just be thankful you got a ticket out of FCS.

(08-12-2016 01:07 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:51 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:46 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I see NO benefit to adding NIU. No offense but they have no penetration in their market, horrid basketball and create another island in a cold weather location.

Since when is a 21 win season and postseason play horrid? Plus we just had a phenomenal recruiting class come in as well...

But an ECU fan trashing our basketball IS funny haha

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One season. Yes, our basketball is putrid as well but historically we're about the same. We have a better fanbase, baseball and location.

LOCATION?! WE'RE AN HOUR OUTSIDE CHICAGO

GTFOH

take the shades off man...

Though I'll give you fan base and baseball

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(08-12-2016 01:08 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 01:07 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:51 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:46 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I see NO benefit to adding NIU. No offense but they have no penetration in their market, horrid basketball and create another island in a cold weather location.

Since when is a 21 win season and postseason play horrid? Plus we just had a phenomenal recruiting class come in as well...

But an ECU fan trashing our basketball IS funny haha

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One season. Yes, our basketball is putrid as well but historically we're about the same. We have a better fanbase, baseball and location.

LOCATION?! WE'RE AN HOUR OUTSIDE CHICAGO

GTFOH

take the shades off man...

Though I'll give you fan base and baseball

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So what? Nobody cares about NIU in Chicago. You'd be on an island in cold weather, in a weak recruiting state.

(08-12-2016 01:09 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 01:08 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 01:07 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:51 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(08-12-2016 12:46 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  I see NO benefit to adding NIU. No offense but they have no penetration in their market, horrid basketball and create another island in a cold weather location.

Since when is a 21 win season and postseason play horrid? Plus we just had a phenomenal recruiting class come in as well...

But an ECU fan trashing our basketball IS funny haha

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One season. Yes, our basketball is putrid as well but historically we're about the same. We have a better fanbase, baseball and location.

LOCATION?! WE'RE AN HOUR OUTSIDE CHICAGO

GTFOH

take the shades off man...

Though I'll give you fan base and baseball

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So what? Nobody cares about NIU in Chicago. You'd be on an island in cold weather, in a weak recruiting state.

Well if we get passed over for the B12, u better learn to love us big boy. Cuz you'll likely be stuck with us

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doubtful

What do you hope to accomplish with this? The American is already viewed as the top G5 conference. Continue to take care of business and more often than not, the AAC gets the access bowl. By inviting in these other characters you're inviting parity. Parity allows a Marshall or a Toledo to steal that access bowl away from the AAC. A scheduling alliance with, say, the Mountain West might make sense.

Did someone say basketball?