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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 06:16 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  If the goal is to establish the American as the clear top conference outside of the big 6 than you can't let Dayton and VCU stay in the Atlantic 10.

Agreed ... but now you're causing the same football vs basketball struggle that sunk the original Big East.

Thinking the big football programs in AAC don't want more than one non-G5 established football school invited.
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Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 06:30 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  
(03-19-2017 06:16 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  If the goal is to establish the American as the clear top conference outside of the big 6 than you can't let Dayton and VCU stay in the Atlantic 10.

Agreed ... but now you're causing the same football vs basketball struggle that sunk the original Big East.

Thinking the big football programs in AAC don't want more than one non-G5 established football school invited.

That seems to be what Aresco is implying.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
How Big of a majority is needed to approve expansion in the AAC? If it is low, then Wichita State is in safely. If it's closer to 3/4ths of a majority, then the Florida schools and East Carolina aren't going to be in favor of Wichita State unless they agree to start football.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 06:49 PM)Rube Dali Wrote:  How Big of a majority is needed to approve expansion in the AAC? If it is low, then Wichita State is in safely. If it's closer to 3/4ths of a majority, then the Florida schools and East Carolina aren't going to be in favor of Wichita State unless they agree to start football.

I don't see why ECU or anyone else would want them to bring football. We already have 12 FB schools with Navy. This would balance out the basketball side of things. In fact, I think we'd probably rather they NOT start football.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 06:49 PM)Rube Dali Wrote:  How Big of a majority is needed to approve expansion in the AAC? If it is low, then Wichita State is in safely. If it's closer to 3/4ths of a majority, then the Florida schools and East Carolina aren't going to be in favor of Wichita State unless they agree to start football.

Why would they want them to start football?
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
Think Wichita State would pull a Liberty and start football without an FBS invite. If it progresses satisfactorily for an AAC invite if AAC teams get P5 invites, that will happen, but a newby FBS team wont. The Shockers long to be an FBS team and get more students out of Texas to enlarge their enrollment.

The Shockers are good at other sports too, like baseball and vb, so they are not going to drag down the AAC olympic sports.
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(03-19-2017 05:08 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I'm going to venture to say that Thamel Has confirmed that Wichita St has talked to better leagues about membership. I'm not sold on the idea that anyone is ready to pull the trigger and take the shockers.

The "Add Wichita St yesterday" crowd doesn't want to hear that. They want you to kiss their fanny and tell them how smart and forward thinking they are.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 05:12 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  So which is it:

- AAC is trying to upgrade bball to, at least in part, appeal to UConn
- UConn is against adding yet another team that it's fans don't know and won't buy tickets to see play

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Neither. If billybobby is talking about me, then he's got it all wrong. I want no part of Wichita St because they're another mouth to feed off of the pittance we get currently. They add zero dollars to a future TV contract, and the tourney credits constantly bandied about? Well I think this years run proves my point quite nicely, thank you.
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(03-19-2017 05:13 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  IMO, adding Wichita could be the last straw for UConn.

They bite the bullet and go Indy in football and join Big East in all sports.


That then prompts AAC to add Dayton and VCU.

Just stop posting about UCONN. It's clear you know less than nothing about anything that goes on here in CT.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 05:46 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Let's think for a bit how the American members might vote on expansion:

In UConn is pushing it they are a yes
If UConn is a yes so is Temple.
Tulsa could probably go for a regional rival so I'm going to say they are a yes.
SMU and Houston have had good basketball lately so perhaps they too would back a pro basketball move.
Cincy and Memphis are probably also going to be in favor of a basketball move that keeps the conference together. I'm not positive how Cincy feels about Dayton though.
I'm not sure how schools who don't emphasize basketball--would feel: Tulane, UCF, USF, ECU

To me if you are trying to build up American basketball to try and be on par with the Big East you are going to need Dayton and VCU too.

If UConn, Temple, and Memphis regain their historical form. Cincinnati maintain their level and either SMU continues on their trajectory post Larry Brown or either Houston or UCF get a step better, the AAC is already on a par with the Big East. Adding one bball only team makes sense, adding three seems like overkill.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 06:49 PM)Rube Dali Wrote:  How Big of a majority is needed to approve expansion in the AAC? If it is low, then Wichita State is in safely. If it's closer to 3/4ths of a majority, then the Florida schools and East Carolina aren't going to be in favor of Wichita State unless they agree to start football.

What would a 13th team, starting from the ground up add? Why would the Florida schools or ECU object to a bball only team that could bring money in the form of NCAA credits to the league?
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 07:14 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  
(03-19-2017 05:12 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  So which is it:

- AAC is trying to upgrade bball to, at least in part, appeal to UConn
- UConn is against adding yet another team that it's fans don't know and won't buy tickets to see play

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Neither. If billybobby is talking about me, then he's got it all wrong. I want no part of Wichita St because they're another mouth to feed off of the pittance we get currently. They add zero dollars to a future TV contract, and the tourney credits constantly bandied about? Well I think this years run proves my point quite nicely, thank you.

I can understand a certain amount of uncertainty about adding WSU and then the fall off to their historic level if Marshall leaves. But, if he sticks around it's reasonable to believe that in a better conference they would get better seeds and not have to play a #2 in the round of 32.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 06:30 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  
(03-19-2017 06:16 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  If the goal is to establish the American as the clear top conference outside of the big 6 than you can't let Dayton and VCU stay in the Atlantic 10.

Agreed ... but now you're causing the same football vs basketball struggle that sunk the original Big East.

Thinking the big football programs in AAC don't want more than one non-G5 established football school invited.

Not really. The Big East had an 8 basketball/8 football voting stalemate. The AAC would have a 12-football/3-basketball voting balance. That's a whole different world than the Big East.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
One interesting aspect of WSU to the AAC is that if the conference thinks UConn is perpetually going to have one eye on the Big East for the entirety of the time they're in the conference, having WSU in-house with the ability to restart football gives the conference a little more flexibility/stronger negotiating stance if it comes time to negotiate the split. The conference wouldn't have to scramble for a new member, WSU's brand would be there to offset the loss of UConn's brand, and you could do some creative things with the exit (i.e. UConn "pays" its exit fee by remaining as a football-only member for a set number of years at reduced or no conference payout while WSU gets their football share and builds their team up to the point that it's ready to join the conference for football in order to maintain scheduling stability).
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Navy is only an affiliate member, not a full member like WSU, Dayton, and VCU would be.

And then UConn leaves.


So that's 10/3.
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If Wichita State leaves, then they are forced to leave behind all of their tournament credits for the past several years. Can they afford to do that? Or would they eat those earnings in hopes of getting more national schedule and respect playing in the American?
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(03-19-2017 08:14 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  Navy is only an affiliate member, not a full member like WSU, Dayton, and VCU would be.

And then UConn leaves.


So that's 10/3.

If UConn goes they'll either be replaced with a new full member or at least one of those schools starts up football, so you're looking at either 11/3 or 11/2.

EDIT: To be clear, I think the AAC stops at WSU if they're adding non-football members, so this situation is very unlikely.
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(03-19-2017 08:22 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  If Wichita State leaves, then they are forced to leave behind all of their tournament credits for the past several years. Can they afford to do that? Or would they eat those earnings in hopes of getting more national schedule and respect playing in the American?

And MVC board says they need to give 24 months notice to leave and there will be no exit fee.

In 2013, they earned 6 credits for the MVC.
2014, 2 credits
2015, 3 credits
2016, 3 credits
2017, 2 credits


The 2013 run will expire in 2019-20.
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RE: Pete Thamel of SI saying Wichita St/AAC could happen in few months
(03-19-2017 08:46 PM)NoDak Wrote:  
(03-19-2017 08:22 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  If Wichita State leaves, then they are forced to leave behind all of their tournament credits for the past several years. Can they afford to do that? Or would they eat those earnings in hopes of getting more national schedule and respect playing in the American?

And MVC board says they need to give 24 months notice to leave and there will be no exit fee.

In 2013, they earned 6 credits for the MVC.
2014, 2 credits
2015, 3 credits
2016, 3 credits
2017, 2 credits


The 2013 run will expire in 2019-20.

Look at all that money WSU will be making the AAC in the future! 04-jawdrop03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao
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(03-19-2017 08:55 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  
(03-19-2017 08:46 PM)NoDak Wrote:  
(03-19-2017 08:22 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  If Wichita State leaves, then they are forced to leave behind all of their tournament credits for the past several years. Can they afford to do that? Or would they eat those earnings in hopes of getting more national schedule and respect playing in the American?

And MVC board says they need to give 24 months notice to leave and there will be no exit fee.

In 2013, they earned 6 credits for the MVC.
2014, 2 credits
2015, 3 credits
2016, 3 credits
2017, 2 credits


The 2013 run will expire in 2019-20.

Look at all that money WSU will be making the AAC in the future! 04-jawdrop03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao03-lmfao

All reports are that WSU is pretty gung-ho on joining a multi-bid conference in the next couple years, whether it's the American, the A-10, or some other conference (hell, Gonzaga and St Mary's probably have the clout to force the WCC to take them if push comes to shove). My guess is that Wichita has already written off those credits.
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