(01-02-2018 03:30 PM)AusTxPony Wrote:  Yes to BYU (West) and Army (East). Both can schedule OOC P6 with ease. Both have good fan appeal. Both have good academic reputations. BYU on field performance will improve. Both would accept Football Only. Need to leave the MWC with some teams to knock each other off. Like 14 teams, 6 intra-division and 2 inter-division, less likely rematch for Champ game.

Army Navy have to be in the same division.

Add army to schedule some east games in an alliance and do the same for BYU to schedule west schools. Keep travel down, add quality games, more access and share bowls and tv money.

(01-02-2018 03:35 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(01-02-2018 12:20 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(01-02-2018 08:21 AM)baruna falls Wrote:  No to BYU. They have lost any appeal. Their demands would be to great on the conference.

If BYU actually wanted to join you would go back and delete this post.

I wouldn't. Don't like them. Dont like their fans. Don't like their cheap shot 30 year old mercenary players. Don't like their uniforms, don't like Utah, don't like cougars, don't like the goofy Y on their helmet, don't like inland lakes of salt water, don't like cold weather, don't like mountain time, don't like em. Dont want to go there ever again.

All very good points. Some I never even considered. lol

(01-02-2018 12:08 PM)YNot Wrote:  BYU administration will right the ship. The Grimes OC hire is a step in the right direction.

There is still huge fan support. BYU still had 51K in the seats with a 3-8 record for a game against 3-7 UMass in late November weather.

I think the 2017 season has humbled BYU a little. If schedules could be worked out, I think a move for the 2020 season would make sense for everyone.

What!!?? No mention of some Notre Dame type of alliance to share our bowls while allowing Byu to remain indy. I kid,but I happen to believe that in the end we will end up with 2 of Byu, Boise, SDSU with Gonzaga as a bball bonus. My cousins ex in law who works for NBC told me this so keep it a secret

After this year I don’t think the AAC needs BYU. At least not given the hassle they bring.

They had their chance and thumbed their nose, stupidly going Indy instead.

Let them sleep in the crappy bed they made for themselves

(01-02-2018 04:03 PM)TU4ever Wrote:  

(01-02-2018 03:30 PM)AusTxPony Wrote:  Yes to BYU (West) and Army (East). Both can schedule OOC P6 with ease. Both have good fan appeal. Both have good academic reputations. BYU on field performance will improve. Both would accept Football Only. Need to leave the MWC with some teams to knock each other off. Like 14 teams, 6 intra-division and 2 inter-division, less likely rematch for Champ game.

Army Navy have to be in the same division.

Add army to schedule some east games in an alliance and do the same for BYU to schedule west schools. Keep travel down, add quality games, more access and share bowls and tv money.

Every time I hear this ridiculous idea it makes me cringe. Anybody else that thinks a scheduling alliance with anyone other than Notre Dame or Texas makes any frickin sense call me because I have some lovely bridges for sale

I would rather take a swing at Boise St. again before I entertained BYU as a possibility.

Boise St.
Air Force
Army
BYU

What about BYU?

(01-02-2018 12:08 PM)YNot Wrote:  BYU administration will right the ship. The Grimes OC hire is a step in the right direction.

There is still huge fan support. BYU still had 51K in the seats with a 3-8 record for a game against 3-7 UMass in late November weather.

I think the 2017 season has humbled BYU a little. If schedules could be worked out, I think a move for the 2020 season would make sense for everyone.

I don’t want BYU. I used to be a cheerleader to BYU to the AAC too.
BYU is a weird college, with a an 1800’s worthy honer code, that was freakin awful last year; adds nothing to the AAC except a million miles.

(01-02-2018 08:18 PM)Borncoog74 Wrote:  I would rather take a swing at Boise St. again before I entertained BYU as a possibility.

Boise St.
Air Force
Army
BYU

Chet Gladchuk Navy and Mike Aresco have squashed all credibility Boise once had while BYU still holds their (credibility) card.

I'm not saying USM is more worthy of inclusion but I do not understand how adding a team or teams from the West accomplishes anything? They aren't going to make you a P# conference so it doesn't add value. College football is an eastern dominated sport and it's where all the tv viewers are located. If there were teams to be added, the picks should be Army and/or USM.

(01-02-2018 08:21 AM)baruna falls Wrote:  No to BYU. They have lost any appeal. Their demands would be to great on the conference.

-And, yet, ECU signs a second scheduling deal with the BYU football team.

BYU has fans. BYU has a national following. BYU is a nice fit for the American.

My challenge with BYU is the travel to get there. Like UTEP, a team needs a bye-week after traveling so far.

(01-02-2018 08:18 PM)Borncoog74 Wrote:  I would rather take a swing at Boise St. again before I entertained BYU as a possibility.

Boise St.
Air Force
Army
BYU

If the American needs something like this to get more money per school from the networks, then go for it. If this kind of expansion is needed, the American should really expand and add schools like San Diego State, Fresno State, UNLV, etc... Something like this may be a football alliance with a conference football championship game. Other sports may work best regionally with the schools working as separate conferences, separate championships, and a scheduling arrangement between the east coast/west coast to ensure strength-of-schedule works best for the schools.

Nah. Mean People Suck.















And you know about the Miami Beach Bowl

^ BYU is dirty ^

Also, they had their chance. They turned us down because they were too good for us and struck out on their own path. Well, enjoy.

Also, at the BYU/ECU game, hordes of 4-8 years old kids clad in BYU gear, screaming and jumping from bleacher to bleacher, repeatedly beating me on the head with pom pom sticks, throwing full water bottles from the top of the stands toward people at the bottom, while their parents looked on.

(01-02-2018 10:16 PM)goldeneagle21 Wrote:  I'm not saying USM is more worthy of inclusion but I do not understand how adding a team or teams from the West accomplishes anything? They aren't going to make you a P# conference so it doesn't add value. College football is an eastern dominated sport and it's where all the tv viewers are located. If there were teams to be added, the picks should be Army and/or USM.

Don't be silly, Southern Miss is "worthy". Good grief y'all are just have had a few tough years but went to the Independence Bowl. Southern Miss needs to be with us.

Southern Miss has a nice history but I don't think does enough for the tv audience. That is why BYU and Boise State are talked about.

I’d love to have Southern Miss here. Doesn’t make a lot of sense though

(01-03-2018 12:11 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(01-02-2018 10:16 PM)goldeneagle21 Wrote:  I'm not saying USM is more worthy of inclusion but I do not understand how adding a team or teams from the West accomplishes anything? They aren't going to make you a P# conference so it doesn't add value. College football is an eastern dominated sport and it's where all the tv viewers are located. If there were teams to be added, the picks should be Army and/or USM.

Don't be silly, Southern Miss is "worthy". Good grief y'all are just have had a few tough years but went to the Independence Bowl. Southern Miss needs to be with us.

Thanks but we know we have work to do. That Indy bowl performance doesn't help.

If the AAC was going to expand. Then Georgia state might be a program to give a look at. They remind me of UCF and USF in a lot of ways. Two decades ago nobody gave them any notice. But look at both of those programs now. GSU would be a good investment for the AAC.