(09-22-2023 07:07 PM)AlwaysSunny Wrote:  

(09-22-2023 10:49 AM)Starfox207 Wrote:  In the end, I guess my hands are up. I am so unbelievably sick and tired of people trashing on our schools and our conference. We allow so many trolls on here to smack talk, and see things like " AAC is not attractive, No one wants these schools, mistakes were made, there will be no competition." I get it, these are the things you have got to say if you are not in The American.

Let me be one of the first to say, I have made some communication against the AAC Line on the last round, but I realize the stakes, and more importantly my mistakes. SMU was a valued conference member, do I turn around on them and throw shade if I percieve they are stealing an ECU spot in the ACC? I have to hope that they are a Yes vote if ACC crashes. I have to believe the positive here.

I apologize for the things I have thought and wrote about any of these new members, and I will go one step further and also to the Sun belt, because I do value Marshall and USM highly. Again, I value App St, but from a student there as a freshman, I know they have a ceiling, and i do not like ceilings with regard to potential being capped.

I think we have ALOT to offer the world, I think this group of schools we have is worth signing a GOR for, and worthy of excitement. I am sorry for making anyone here now feel like they are not worth of being an Autonomous school or Power Conference. I am just sick and tired of bashing on this conference. We are going to take some losses this year, ECU is already terrible, but I believe in the futures of UNT, UTSA, UAB, FAU, Charlotte, Rice, Army, and the AAC Remainers. I love our brand, our Conference Logo, and growing in my enjoyment of our Conference makeup. Maybe I just believe the media and marketing too much, I could fall into that trap. But I just feel this entire site is extremely anti AAC. And whatever this relegation is, it is beneath all of us. Good Luck to us all.

You brought it on yourselves with all that P6 nonsense tbh.

Sunny, you know you’re right and you probably hit the nail on the head.
Maybe I’ll start using this forum to save money for better my mental health sighhhh.

Yeah I believe we are P6. Man it makes some days hard.
I am really trying to work through and forgive what I see in general on the shadyness and lopsided competition and unequal compensation models. I communicate this in the open because maybe I see benefit in others understanding me as a poster. The forgiveness is mine as a reward to set my self free to escape back into college sports because I don’t like what’s going on out there, and i am not ready to let this go. Until my metamorphosis into a carefree soul, I’ll always just be sympathetic to The American’s plight.

Big appreciation for you Sunny, I appreciate this back and forth and happy Friday.

(09-22-2023 04:29 PM)seurat92 Wrote:  

(09-22-2023 10:49 AM)Starfox207 Wrote:  In the end, I guess my hands are up. I am so unbelievably sick and tired of people trashing on our schools and our conference. We allow so many trolls on here to smack talk, and see things like " AAC is not attractive, No one wants these schools, mistakes were made, there will be no competition." I get it, these are the things you have got to say if you are not in The American.

Let me be one of the first to say, I have made some communication against the AAC Line on the last round, but I realize the stakes, and more importantly my mistakes. SMU was a valued conference member, do I turn around on them and throw shade if I percieve they are stealing an ECU spot in the ACC? I have to hope that they are a Yes vote if ACC crashes. I have to believe the positive here.

I apologize for the things I have thought and wrote about any of these new members, and I will go one step further and also to the Sun belt, because I do value Marshall and USM highly. Again, I value App St, but from a student there as a freshman, I know they have a ceiling, and i do not like ceilings with regard to potential being capped.

I think we have ALOT to offer the world, I think this group of schools we have is worth signing a GOR for, and worthy of excitement. I am sorry for making anyone here now feel like they are not worth of being an Autonomous school or Power Conference. I am just sick and tired of bashing on this conference. We are going to take some losses this year, ECU is already terrible, but I believe in the futures of UNT, UTSA, UAB, FAU, Charlotte, Rice, Army, and the AAC Remainers. I love our brand, our Conference Logo, and growing in my enjoyment of our Conference makeup. Maybe I just believe the media and marketing too much, I could fall into that trap. But I just feel this entire site is extremely anti AAC. And whatever this relegation is, it is beneath all of us. Good Luck to us all.

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Man....you went off up there. In both posts. I read it all. Very good posts actually.
I hate to harp on this again but the reason you and others are so despondent over this conf is all directly linked to the head guy.
Here's what you said in your 1st long post...

"According to the Associated Press Article on it, Aresco is not a fan of relegation, and I am glad he put it out there. He is also going to fight against any changes to the 6 champion slots for new playoff.
Regardless of what happens, just happy to see someone out there communicating these things. It take a lot of courage and bravery to go against injustice".

You have got to be kidding!
Aresco not in favor of relegation is a MISTAKE....AGAIN!
That he doesn't entertain that notion is typical and naive. Even I can imagine an SBC and ACC thing like that happening. I can certainly see the SBC and C-USA pondering this after the PAC does it.
Btw......the AAC and the PAC would be talking and doing this right now if Aresco got BSU, AFA, Colo St and SDSU which all wanted to and were coming and then did not. Would be a great position to be in for the AAC right now. Would be in that position THIS yr if the guy had any foresight.
That's why it's typical he poo-poo'd the relegation proposal..

Man give it up. Your schtick is tired. That's either very short-sighted, or just more Aresco hate speech. If he didn't have foresight, he would have never pursued Boise, SDSU, AFA, and CSU.

He's looking out for our own best interests. The American has advantages that the MW doesn't, and he knows it. We're the better conference. There's no reason for him to align us with an inferior group of schools, when we can remain above them. He doesn't want to help them, he wants to squeeze them.

He isn't done going after MW schools. They have members that would be worth the travel, and they aren't named Washington State and Oregon State.

They must not be so happy out West, or four of them wouldn't have entertained the notion of joining The American in the first place. The American sends teams to the CFP and promotes them to bigger conferences. The MW doesn't. There are obvious reasons for that.