(08-11-2023 05:47 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  I don't see why any school west of Texas and not in CUSA would want to join the AAC.

We just have very little to offer, IMO.

You have to have something to offer. The nB12 had $32m a year in media money to offer. The AAC has $7m, maybe, if ESPN agreed to pro-rate.

$7m was with Houston, Cinci and UCF. No way any new addition not named PAC-4 would get 7m.

(08-11-2023 02:39 PM)msu35 Wrote:  

(08-11-2023 02:33 PM)The Sicatoka Wrote:  Being aggressive while one of your best (SMU) is shopping itself to the ACC don't seem to align.

How so? SMU has delusions of grandeur and are hoping that money can buy them success. It's consistent with their values or are you forgetting the Pony Excess and the resultant death penalty?

Any of us could have gotten the death penalty, SMU just made an easy target b/c they were a small school and not very well connected politically.

(08-11-2023 04:19 PM)rileylives Wrote:  Best of the rest...ha!

The AAC doesn't have anywhere near the pull to make any of this happen.

Not by themselves they don't. But combined with the Pac they might.

(08-11-2023 04:46 PM)Owls9878 Wrote:  

(08-11-2023 10:18 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  AAC needs to drop their deadweights like FAU, Rice, North Texas and Temple. That is not the best of the rest. It would be a travel nightmare for everybody involved.

Since joining the AAC, Temple has had a better conference and overall record than SMU, Tulane, USF, ECU, and Tulsa, been to more bowl games than any of those schools, and made two AAC championship games, winning one. Considering Temple as deadweight goes to show how out of touch you are with reality.

What is the budget of the Temple University Athletic Department?
Since March 2020, Temple Athletics, which has a roughly $35 million budget, has struggled with funding due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Feb 22, 2022


2022 revenues for selected AAC teams:
UCF: $89m
Cincy: $83m
UH: $78m

(08-11-2023 07:23 PM)bryanw1995 Wrote:  

(08-11-2023 04:46 PM)Owls9878 Wrote:  

(08-11-2023 10:18 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  AAC needs to drop their deadweights like FAU, Rice, North Texas and Temple. That is not the best of the rest. It would be a travel nightmare for everybody involved.

Since joining the AAC, Temple has had a better conference and overall record than SMU, Tulane, USF, ECU, and Tulsa, been to more bowl games than any of those schools, and made two AAC championship games, winning one. Considering Temple as deadweight goes to show how out of touch you are with reality.

What is the budget of the Temple University Athletic Department?
Since March 2020, Temple Athletics, which has a roughly $35 million budget, has struggled with funding due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Feb 22, 2022


2022 revenues for selected AAC teams:
UCF: $89m
Cincy: $83m
UH: $78m

The most up-to-date published revenue info (2022) can be seen below:

01.) Southern Methodist University - $68,812,414
02.) University of Memphis - $61,254,516
03.) Temple University - $60,719,852
04.) University of South Florida - $59,531,111
05.) East Carolina University - $51,956,014
06.) University of Tulsa - $38,078,189
07.) Tulane University of Louisiana - $31,836,150
08.) Navy - Not Available

The newbies:

Rice University - $42,045,636
University of North Texas - $40,063,458
University of Alabama at Birmingham - $35,725,431
University of North Carolina at Charlotte - $34,983,604
Florida Atlantic University - $32,271,156
The University of Texas at San Antonio - $29,952,607

Link: https://csnbbs.com/thread-969046.html

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