(07-20-2017 04:34 PM)otown Wrote: I said it before and I will say t again.............. regardless of product on the field/court/etc......... just what have the other conferences been doing outside of embracing the status quo. You don't hear a peep from any of the other commissioners. Why are they not out their marketing their product? Why is it only Aresco that consistently get press about his plans for the conference? I get the frustration that others feel toward him when talking about fans of the other conferences........but I do believe their venting is misplaced on the wrong person. This is marketing 101. If you have a product to sell, you must market it.
because the others know that running around trying to act like you are in the club will not make you get in the club
ignoring the facts of:
1. the same number of NCAA votes as every other G5 conference
2. not having a NY6 bowl guarantee for $27.5 to $40 million per year
3. not having a large TV contract for $20+ million per year per team
4. sharing the G5 part of the NCAA football playoff instead of getting $50 million per year for being a P5 member
is not going to make any of that change
saying that "well most years we are the best of the G5 so we are P6 is not going to change any of the above
the AAC homers act like the P5 conferences are called that because the causal fan of college football or the "opinion makers" simply call them that because they feel like calling them that for no marked reason to do so
when the reality is the above list of factors is why EVERYONE calls the P5 the P5 and the G5 the G5
and the only one that is likely (not really all that likely) to change and become remotely differentiating from the other G5 COULD be the TV contract
simply running around selling P6 golf balls and thongs on customink.noinfo is not going to make ESPN rush out and make a NY6 bowl with a payout of $27.5 to $40 million per year for the AAC neither is "well sometimes we occasionally finish better and get the G5 auto bid to the NY6 bowl game in the years that another conference does not get it"
until the AAC starts to make actual progress on differentiating themselves from the other G5 by making ANY progress on several of the above 4 things then their efforts to prove they are somehow different really mean nothing in terms of anything meaningful