(12-07-2017 03:45 PM)Bogg Wrote: Also, going off of memory here so I may have made this up, but I believe a big part of why the C7 was able to negotiate a split that left them with the name and tournament is that there was a brief window where they had a voting supermajority, and thus the technical ability to completely dissolve the conference.
We didn't negotiate the split in 2012. Most of the split was governed by the pre-nup written in 2005 or so, the details (name, MSG, timing) were negotiated in the spring of 2013.
Once we announced our intentions to split, we stopped voting on conference matters. Technically, we may have had the right to march back in to the board room and ram things through. Or maybe not--nobody has seen what the prenup actually said, and there were widespread media reports that a dissolution would have needed the consent of 2 of the football schools, which is nowhere in the bylaws.
If you accept that the split was more like a corporate split (like CBS and Viacom) than like the MWC leaving the WAC, then the terms make a lot more sense--the assets were divided up pretty evenly, the non-FBS schools got the brand name and the MSG tournament, the FBS schools got the money from the exit fees and the departed (FBS) schools.
(12-07-2017 04:00 PM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote: (12-07-2017 03:26 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote: Where are the WSU fans who think the AAC is such a better conference than the Big East (or Big Pee as they call it like that makes any sense at all)?
probably on the AAC board discussing more important things than this once a week rehashed NBE wet dream. SOS rehashed by the same posters. They'll be okay, they can comment on the new thread next week when you start the new one so you and certain posters can say this same "stuff" again. YOU know for such a lousy conference it's amazing how much people like you care, maybe that's why our ratings are so exceeding so well,,, hmm. sheesh! Lol
There's actually a thread on the AAC smack board that started as WSU fans trolling the Big East, and is now Wichita fans and RutgersGuy trying to troll and PWN each other.
(12-07-2017 04:15 PM)UConnHusky Wrote: (12-07-2017 03:41 PM)johnbragg Wrote: (12-07-2017 12:27 PM)UConnHusky Wrote: .....reasons.
Yes, that's why Aresco and the league presidents bent over backward to make special arrangements to get Boise STate football into the league.
Oh wait that didn't happen, even though there were all sorts of rational arguments for it, because it was seen as unfair and disrespectful by the presidents and a lot of the fanbases. Hmmm.
Making special arrangements to bring Boise State into the old Big East (which became the AAC) isn't quite apples to apples to letting UConn remain in the AAC (which is the old Big East and of which UConn is a founding member). Either way, there is a difference between making a sweetheart financial deal to benefit a single member (like Boise wanted and which was declined by the AAC) and letting a team remain as a football only member for whatever the financial cut amounts to for just that sport.
It's not that big a difference. You're asking for something special, and the other schools are likely to tell you to GTFO with that nonsense.
Quote:The AAC has Navy as a football only and, in fact, there was a time that ECU was only going to be admitted as a football only member.
Because we the C7 were firmly committed and devoted to c***blocking ECU.
No more C7, no more objections to ECU as a full member
Quote:So, just pay UConn what the cut would be for just football and call it a day. It isn't exactly "unfair" in that case.
If UConn leaves the AAC, which would be required to join the Big East for basketball, I don't like your chances for getting an affiliate membership for football. Note that you'd be ASKING for an affiliate membership, not KEEPING anything.