Wilkie01
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Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
Air Force
Army
Boise State
Colorado State
George Southern
Northern Illinois
Old Dominion
UMass
UNLV
How do you see it?
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SteveUCF19
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
UTSA
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
UTSA
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SublimeKnight
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
(09-16-2014 11:13 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
Air Force
Army
Boise State
Colorado State
George Southern
Northern Illinois
Old Dominion
UMass
UNLV
How do you see it?
I think you mean Georgia State. Georgia Southern is still FCS. That would be my selfish hope, as I know some kids on the team and would get to see some AAC games.
Best for the conference? Probably Army.
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JDTulane
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
Rice or UTSA likely.
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
(09-16-2014 11:16 AM)SublimeKnight Wrote: (09-16-2014 11:13 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
Air Force
Army
Boise State
Colorado State
George Southern
Northern Illinois
Old Dominion
UMass
UNLV
How do you see it?
I think you mean Georgia State. Georgia Southern is still FCS. That would be my selfish hope, as I know some kids on the team and would get to see some AAC games.
Best for the conference? Probably Army.
Ga Southern actually joined the Sun Belt.
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NBPirate
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
Army
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SublimeKnight
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
(09-16-2014 11:17 AM)NBPirate Wrote: Ga Southern actually joined the Sun Belt.
I'll be damned. So they did. Along with the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Howard? Wait... wikipedia is trolling me, right?
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
army has first dibs if they want it
we still have a relationship with sdsu, so they'd likely have second dibs if they want it
airforce, would probably be our 3rd target
then we'd likely look at umass and where their program is at at the time of invite, if we like where they are at they are the partner
if we dont, we go after any MWC willing to jump that can be a good travel partner for byu
beyond that we start looking at c-usa members in new markets with money like maybe odu or maybe marshall/usm if they build a brand over the next few years ...
utsa/rice arent being invited unless we lose a texas team for whatever reason
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2014 11:28 AM by pesik.)
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
SDST
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
Why the hell are we even talking about this?
Anyway, instead of BYU joining, I would strongly favor picking off 6-8 teams from the AAC, and about 4-6 from the BYU/MWC, and merge the best of them.
Just an example,
East
UConn
Temple
ECU
USF
UCF
UC
Navy
Army
West
Memphis (move Memphis to the East division for b-ball, when Army/Navy don't play)
Houston
SMU (or Tulane)
Boise St
BYU
UNLV
Fresno St.
SDSU
Wouldn't be all bad, really.
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09-16-2014 11:35 AM |
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
I'm not sold on UTSA. Wait and see what kind of program they have in 5 years.
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
Why are you assuming we'll add someone? Why not drop someone?
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
You know the off season is over right? Actual games are being played. We dont have to do this to ourselves anymore.
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
It would be pretty cool to make the Army-Navy game an AAC exclusive.
Not no, but hell no on UTSA. Sure, they are decent right now in football, but when they aren't, is a Tier 4 (or whatever it's called now) school with a ~$100 million endowment REALLY what you want to be associated with?
To further put it in perspective, I recently got into an argument with a UTSA fan over their academics, so I dug a little bit, and discovered how truly bad it is. UH has 18 of it's grad school programs ranked in the top 100 (and it's probably more, since some are locked from seeing for free users).
Top 100 programs for UTSA? ZERO.
UH has 29 in the top 150. UTSA has 6.
We're also only mid to lower level when it comes to the AAC standards as a whole. If we accept UTSA, we might as well just throw academic standards out the window.
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2014 12:33 PM by Kronke.)
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
UTSA? Not "no", but "HELL no".
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2014 12:27 PM by Gray Avenger.)
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
BYU will be football only, so Army football only
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2014 12:29 PM by UofMemphis.)
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
(09-16-2014 11:35 AM)BJUnklFkr Wrote: Why the hell are we even talking about this?
Anyway, instead of BYU joining, I would strongly favor picking off 6-8 teams from the AAC, and about 4-6 from the BYU/MWC, and merge the best of them.
Just an example,
East
UConn
Temple
ECU
USF
UCF
UC
Navy
Army
West
Memphis (move Memphis to the East division for b-ball, when Army/Navy don't play)
Houston
SMU (or Tulane)
Boise St
BYU
UNLV
Fresno St.
SDSU
Wouldn't be all bad, really.
This. Time to start over.
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Wilkie01
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
I like BYU and Army.
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RE: Say BYU is 13th team in the American, so who is the 14th team?
F*CKKKKKK NO to OoOoTsAaAa
It is Army to get first refusal.
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