(05-03-2018 03:09 PM)TU4ever Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 02:57 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 02:39 PM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(05-02-2018 03:23 PM)8BitPirate Wrote:  I heard UMass brings the NYC market....

Correct. In other news, we deliver the Atlanta market.

To be fair...

Amherst to NYC (166 miles) is more like Greenville to Greensboro (160 miles).

Greenville to Atlanta (486 miles) is more like Amherst to Richmond (498 miles).

Professor HuskyU getting in some overtime this week!

Can you program my navigation to the best mac and cheese on Earth? I hear it's closer to Boston than UMass is if that helps

Just make sure you don't walk in there three sheets to the wind with an open bottle of beer.

(05-03-2018 11:31 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 10:51 AM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 10:42 AM)panite Wrote:  

(05-02-2018 03:23 PM)8BitPirate Wrote:  I heard UMass brings the NYC market....

New York City Market -

Boston Market Maybe -

I do like the honey ham and mac/cheese at Boston Market

Traitor. UCONN Jalapeno Mac and Cheese is by far the best.

From what I understand, UCONN is located in a Boston suburb.

(05-01-2018 10:39 AM)templefan1 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 12:21 AM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 11:45 PM)panama Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 11:50 AM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 06:45 AM)panama Wrote:  Going beyond 12 would be very difficult unless someone says there is additional revenue involved or unless it works better organizationally for the league. I think we are much more likely to see a best of the rest league form if nobody leaves the AAC the next go around.

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Again, this is operating under the assumption that the AAC is a power conference and doesn't have improvements to make. Creating a serious basketball league (which you do by adding URI and VCU) and expanding into major markets (UMass and ODU) I can only imagine would add tons of value. And that's not considering what adding those big name public research schools and developing the Northeast as a whole does to the overall value. The Big 12 and ACC only need to change their lineups to keep up in the arms race. We still need to become a power conference.

Maybe UMass after some improvement @ facilities. URI and VCU? Highly unlikely. AAC MBB is fine and football is king.

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Basketball is terrible, and trying to improve it doesn't detract from football. I don't understand where that idea comes from.

I don't think it's likely, I think it's the best possible path for the conference to take.

How does adding URI improve basketball? They have been to two NCAA tournaments since the 1999 season. Yes, they had a coach that improved the program and they couldn't stop an AAC program poaching him. The bottom line is Umass, URI, and even VCU at this point doesn't improve anything because in reality basketball does not increase media revenue.

We need football schools that can play some basketball every 2 or 3 years. Memphis appears to have made a good recruiting hire in Penny. Hurley was a home run for UConn. Having those two programs back in power is really what the conference needs...not URI or VCU.

Hell, Boise State has made 1 more NCAA tournament appearance since 1999 than URI, so I guess they are a power house in Bball!!!

Again, you're not looking more than 5 feet in front of your face. URI not only gives you an up and coming basketball program that has shown a willingness to invest and an ability to succeed, they give you that New England triangle and makes this conference one of the most relevant from Maine to Norfolk (assuming the ODU add). It's a bigger strategy that makes this conference stable and more sustainable in the long run. Boise looks like the more favorable add, but it doesn't help develop the culture, it doesn't give you a market of any notable size or help develop a presence in a particular region, and it doesn't help create any rivalries or add interesting storylines that the conference needs if it wants to be less irrelevant.

VCU and ODU are huge rivals already. Having the 3 biggest public brands in New England is massively valuable. URI and VCU are solid basketball schools that would see a massive recruiting increase by moving up to the AAC. Boise State and BYU are what they are, and make this conference even more of a piece of temporary patchwork every school would jump to leave at any given opportunity.

And again, you can scream about western schools as much as you want, but Aresco has been clear that the conference has no interest in going west.

(05-03-2018 07:51 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 10:39 AM)templefan1 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 12:21 AM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 11:45 PM)panama Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 11:50 AM)The Grape King Wrote:  Again, this is operating under the assumption that the AAC is a power conference and doesn't have improvements to make. Creating a serious basketball league (which you do by adding URI and VCU) and expanding into major markets (UMass and ODU) I can only imagine would add tons of value. And that's not considering what adding those big name public research schools and developing the Northeast as a whole does to the overall value. The Big 12 and ACC only need to change their lineups to keep up in the arms race. We still need to become a power conference.

Maybe UMass after some improvement @ facilities. URI and VCU? Highly unlikely. AAC MBB is fine and football is king.

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Basketball is terrible, and trying to improve it doesn't detract from football. I don't understand where that idea comes from.

I don't think it's likely, I think it's the best possible path for the conference to take.

How does adding URI improve basketball? They have been to two NCAA tournaments since the 1999 season. Yes, they had a coach that improved the program and they couldn't stop an AAC program poaching him. The bottom line is Umass, URI, and even VCU at this point doesn't improve anything because in reality basketball does not increase media revenue.

We need football schools that can play some basketball every 2 or 3 years. Memphis appears to have made a good recruiting hire in Penny. Hurley was a home run for UConn. Having those two programs back in power is really what the conference needs...not URI or VCU.

Hell, Boise State has made 1 more NCAA tournament appearance since 1999 than URI, so I guess they are a power house in Bball!!!

Again, you're not looking more than 5 feet in front of your face. URI not only gives you an up and coming basketball program that has shown a willingness to invest and an ability to succeed, they give you that New England triangle and makes this conference one of the most relevant from Maine to Norfolk (assuming the ODU add). It's a bigger strategy that makes this conference stable and more sustainable in the long run. Boise looks like the more favorable add, but it doesn't help develop the culture, it doesn't give you a market of any notable size or help develop a presence in a particular region, and it doesn't help create any rivalries or add interesting storylines that the conference needs if it wants to be less irrelevant.

VCU and ODU are huge rivals already. Having the 3 biggest public brands in New England is massively valuable. URI and VCU are solid basketball schools that would see a massive recruiting increase by moving up to the AAC. Boise State and BYU are what they are, and make this conference even more of a piece of temporary patchwork every school would jump to leave at any given opportunity.

And again, you can scream about western schools as much as you want, but Aresco has been clear that the conference has no interest in going west.

League isn't going anywhere

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(05-03-2018 08:17 PM)panama Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 07:51 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 10:39 AM)templefan1 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 12:21 AM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 11:45 PM)panama Wrote:  Maybe UMass after some improvement @ facilities. URI and VCU? Highly unlikely. AAC MBB is fine and football is king.

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Basketball is terrible, and trying to improve it doesn't detract from football. I don't understand where that idea comes from.

I don't think it's likely, I think it's the best possible path for the conference to take.

How does adding URI improve basketball? They have been to two NCAA tournaments since the 1999 season. Yes, they had a coach that improved the program and they couldn't stop an AAC program poaching him. The bottom line is Umass, URI, and even VCU at this point doesn't improve anything because in reality basketball does not increase media revenue.

We need football schools that can play some basketball every 2 or 3 years. Memphis appears to have made a good recruiting hire in Penny. Hurley was a home run for UConn. Having those two programs back in power is really what the conference needs...not URI or VCU.

Hell, Boise State has made 1 more NCAA tournament appearance since 1999 than URI, so I guess they are a power house in Bball!!!

Again, you're not looking more than 5 feet in front of your face. URI not only gives you an up and coming basketball program that has shown a willingness to invest and an ability to succeed, they give you that New England triangle and makes this conference one of the most relevant from Maine to Norfolk (assuming the ODU add). It's a bigger strategy that makes this conference stable and more sustainable in the long run. Boise looks like the more favorable add, but it doesn't help develop the culture, it doesn't give you a market of any notable size or help develop a presence in a particular region, and it doesn't help create any rivalries or add interesting storylines that the conference needs if it wants to be less irrelevant.

VCU and ODU are huge rivals already. Having the 3 biggest public brands in New England is massively valuable. URI and VCU are solid basketball schools that would see a massive recruiting increase by moving up to the AAC. Boise State and BYU are what they are, and make this conference even more of a piece of temporary patchwork every school would jump to leave at any given opportunity.

And again, you can scream about western schools as much as you want, but Aresco has been clear that the conference has no interest in going west.

League isn't going anywhere

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It might go somewhere without Cincinnati, UConn, and Memphis. There's a mid major conference no one wants anything to do with.

(05-03-2018 08:37 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 08:17 PM)panama Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 07:51 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 10:39 AM)templefan1 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 12:21 AM)The Grape King Wrote:  Basketball is terrible, and trying to improve it doesn't detract from football. I don't understand where that idea comes from.

I don't think it's likely, I think it's the best possible path for the conference to take.

How does adding URI improve basketball? They have been to two NCAA tournaments since the 1999 season. Yes, they had a coach that improved the program and they couldn't stop an AAC program poaching him. The bottom line is Umass, URI, and even VCU at this point doesn't improve anything because in reality basketball does not increase media revenue.

We need football schools that can play some basketball every 2 or 3 years. Memphis appears to have made a good recruiting hire in Penny. Hurley was a home run for UConn. Having those two programs back in power is really what the conference needs...not URI or VCU.

Hell, Boise State has made 1 more NCAA tournament appearance since 1999 than URI, so I guess they are a power house in Bball!!!

Again, you're not looking more than 5 feet in front of your face. URI not only gives you an up and coming basketball program that has shown a willingness to invest and an ability to succeed, they give you that New England triangle and makes this conference one of the most relevant from Maine to Norfolk (assuming the ODU add). It's a bigger strategy that makes this conference stable and more sustainable in the long run. Boise looks like the more favorable add, but it doesn't help develop the culture, it doesn't give you a market of any notable size or help develop a presence in a particular region, and it doesn't help create any rivalries or add interesting storylines that the conference needs if it wants to be less irrelevant.

VCU and ODU are huge rivals already. Having the 3 biggest public brands in New England is massively valuable. URI and VCU are solid basketball schools that would see a massive recruiting increase by moving up to the AAC. Boise State and BYU are what they are, and make this conference even more of a piece of temporary patchwork every school would jump to leave at any given opportunity.

And again, you can scream about western schools as much as you want, but Aresco has been clear that the conference has no interest in going west.

League isn't going anywhere

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It might go somewhere without Cincinnati, UConn, and Memphis. There's a mid major conference no one wants anything to do with.

Where exactly are these 3 going? Indy?

(05-03-2018 08:47 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 08:37 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 08:17 PM)panama Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 07:51 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 10:39 AM)templefan1 Wrote:  How does adding URI improve basketball? They have been to two NCAA tournaments since the 1999 season. Yes, they had a coach that improved the program and they couldn't stop an AAC program poaching him. The bottom line is Umass, URI, and even VCU at this point doesn't improve anything because in reality basketball does not increase media revenue.

We need football schools that can play some basketball every 2 or 3 years. Memphis appears to have made a good recruiting hire in Penny. Hurley was a home run for UConn. Having those two programs back in power is really what the conference needs...not URI or VCU.

Hell, Boise State has made 1 more NCAA tournament appearance since 1999 than URI, so I guess they are a power house in Bball!!!

Again, you're not looking more than 5 feet in front of your face. URI not only gives you an up and coming basketball program that has shown a willingness to invest and an ability to succeed, they give you that New England triangle and makes this conference one of the most relevant from Maine to Norfolk (assuming the ODU add). It's a bigger strategy that makes this conference stable and more sustainable in the long run. Boise looks like the more favorable add, but it doesn't help develop the culture, it doesn't give you a market of any notable size or help develop a presence in a particular region, and it doesn't help create any rivalries or add interesting storylines that the conference needs if it wants to be less irrelevant.

VCU and ODU are huge rivals already. Having the 3 biggest public brands in New England is massively valuable. URI and VCU are solid basketball schools that would see a massive recruiting increase by moving up to the AAC. Boise State and BYU are what they are, and make this conference even more of a piece of temporary patchwork every school would jump to leave at any given opportunity.

And again, you can scream about western schools as much as you want, but Aresco has been clear that the conference has no interest in going west.

League isn't going anywhere

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It might go somewhere without Cincinnati, UConn, and Memphis. There's a mid major conference no one wants anything to do with.

Where exactly are these 3 going? Indy?

Do you think realignment never happens again? This conference should at least make an attempt to be a legitimate player. Doing nothing but adding the best of the scraps just makes the conference a stopping point for the top programs. Build a culture and who knows what kind of potential the conference has. It has none under the current model.

Think the AAC is doing the right thing. They brought in Wichita State to solidify BB which will no longer trail the A10 and balance Navy.

Frankly this lull in conference realignment helps us as we continue to get our sh|t together. We've gone from a terrible FBS team to one that is finally starting to hit some traction. We have a long ways to go. This fall will be interesting with the teams performance and the official announcement on an Indoor Practice Facility and McGuirk improvements.

Thanks for the positive and negative comments and guess it's going to be a long off-season that this thread has gone on for so long.

Best wishes on the TV contracts and we'll continue to be playing a few of you guys.

(05-03-2018 09:27 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think the AAC is doing the right thing. They brought in Wichita State to solidify BB which will no longer trail the A10 and balance Navy.

Frankly this lull in conference realignment helps us as we continue to get our sh|t together. We've gone from a terrible FBS team to one that is finally starting to hit some traction. We have a long ways to go. This fall will be interesting with the teams performance and the official announcement on an Indoor Practice Facility and McGuirk improvements.

Thanks for the positive and negative comments and guess it's going to be a long off-season that this thread has gone on for so long.

Best wishes on the TV contracts and we'll continue to be playing a few of you guys.

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(05-03-2018 08:37 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 08:17 PM)panama Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 07:51 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 10:39 AM)templefan1 Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 12:21 AM)The Grape King Wrote:  Basketball is terrible, and trying to improve it doesn't detract from football. I don't understand where that idea comes from.

I don't think it's likely, I think it's the best possible path for the conference to take.

How does adding URI improve basketball? They have been to two NCAA tournaments since the 1999 season. Yes, they had a coach that improved the program and they couldn't stop an AAC program poaching him. The bottom line is Umass, URI, and even VCU at this point doesn't improve anything because in reality basketball does not increase media revenue.

We need football schools that can play some basketball every 2 or 3 years. Memphis appears to have made a good recruiting hire in Penny. Hurley was a home run for UConn. Having those two programs back in power is really what the conference needs...not URI or VCU.

Hell, Boise State has made 1 more NCAA tournament appearance since 1999 than URI, so I guess they are a power house in Bball!!!

Again, you're not looking more than 5 feet in front of your face. URI not only gives you an up and coming basketball program that has shown a willingness to invest and an ability to succeed, they give you that New England triangle and makes this conference one of the most relevant from Maine to Norfolk (assuming the ODU add). It's a bigger strategy that makes this conference stable and more sustainable in the long run. Boise looks like the more favorable add, but it doesn't help develop the culture, it doesn't give you a market of any notable size or help develop a presence in a particular region, and it doesn't help create any rivalries or add interesting storylines that the conference needs if it wants to be less irrelevant.

VCU and ODU are huge rivals already. Having the 3 biggest public brands in New England is massively valuable. URI and VCU are solid basketball schools that would see a massive recruiting increase by moving up to the AAC. Boise State and BYU are what they are, and make this conference even more of a piece of temporary patchwork every school would jump to leave at any given opportunity.

And again, you can scream about western schools as much as you want, but Aresco has been clear that the conference has no interest in going west.

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It might go somewhere without Cincinnati, UConn, and Memphis. There's a mid major conference no one wants anything to do with.

Not happening


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(05-03-2018 09:27 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think the AAC is doing the right thing. They brought in Wichita State to solidify BB which will no longer trail the A10 and balance Navy.

Frankly this lull in conference realignment helps us as we continue to get our sh|t together. We've gone from a terrible FBS team to one that is finally starting to hit some traction. We have a long ways to go. This fall will be interesting with the teams performance and the official announcement on an Indoor Practice Facility and McGuirk improvements.

Thanks for the positive and negative comments and guess it's going to be a long off-season that this thread has gone on for so long.

Best wishes on the TV contracts and we'll continue to be playing a few of you guys.

AAC Basketball has never trailed the A10. The Wichita addition was to help us keep up with the Cartel + Big East.

(05-03-2018 09:34 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 09:27 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think the AAC is doing the right thing. They brought in Wichita State to solidify BB which will no longer trail the A10 and balance Navy.

Frankly this lull in conference realignment helps us as we continue to get our sh|t together. We've gone from a terrible FBS team to one that is finally starting to hit some traction. We have a long ways to go. This fall will be interesting with the teams performance and the official announcement on an Indoor Practice Facility and McGuirk improvements.

Thanks for the positive and negative comments and guess it's going to be a long off-season that this thread has gone on for so long.

Best wishes on the TV contracts and we'll continue to be playing a few of you guys.

AAC Basketball has never trailed the A10. The Wichita addition was to help us keep up with the Cartel + Big East.

^^^^At least until UCONN , Temple and Memphis finally decided to remember who we were and got our stuff together

(05-03-2018 10:13 AM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(05-02-2018 05:07 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  UMASS will not even be considered unless someone leaves. That said, by that time their stadium needs to be at least 30K with an 80% attendance figure, their football needs to be recognizable (several 8-4 seasons in a row and in the discussion for NY6 at least once in that span). Their BB needs an uptick. State flagship a plus and many grads in Boston a plus. But they have to start following the school in better numbers. Long way to go.

Minor point. Being an independent, UMass is not eligible for the G5 NY6 slot, and would have to usurp that spot as an at large from the P5. Same for Army, New Mexico State, Liberty, and BYU... but not Notre Dame. For reasons.

Correct. A 12-0 season would put them "in discussion" as in was UMASS better than the G5 rep? UMASS should have accepted the MAC invite. JMU might have been #14, or maybe Delaware.

It would have been JMU and were fully vetted by the MAC. You can also say we should have never gone 1-AA or should have gone FBS in 1998 as both CUSA and MAC had sent inquires.

If we really want to play woulda shoulda coulda, UMass has 117 seasons where they played in divisions below where institutional peers were playing. So you have a wide array to choose from.

I'd point to the era between 1964 and 1990 when the university was firmly established (100+ years under its belt and post-war/boomers construction, like a lot of schools), had quite a bit of success in College Division/DII/and DI-AA (including against University Division, DI, and DI-A opponents), and independence was fairly stable in that period (so it wouldn't really matter if a conference wanted us or not). During that stretch independence averaged 24% of UD/DI/DI-A football with a max of 29% and a min of 19% (standard deviation of 3%).

However, I know that the reason why we didn't move up then is that in the 70s, 80s, and even part of the 90s the school faced massive budget cuts (leading to billions in deferred maintenance) and corruption from the administration/state. The story is so notorious a former UMass professor wrote a book about it.

Still to think that we played ECU in the 1964 Tangerine Bowl when Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium only held 10,000. ECU moved up in 1966 and continually invested in their program and built a great stadium and an amazing fan culture. Meanwhile we sat on our hands for nearly half a century and McGuirk is still a 17,000 seat heap of decay.

Moral of the story is, UMass has made a lot of bad decisions and had a lot of bad luck in regards to athletics. There's no point in saying "we should have stayed in the MAC". We can only look to the future.

(05-03-2018 11:00 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  It would have been JMU and were fully vetted by the MAC. You can also say we should have never gone 1-AA or should have gone FBS in 1998 as both CUSA and MAC had sent inquires.

MACtion!

(05-03-2018 09:34 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 09:27 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think the AAC is doing the right thing. They brought in Wichita State to solidify BB which will no longer trail the A10 and balance Navy.

Frankly this lull in conference realignment helps us as we continue to get our sh|t together. We've gone from a terrible FBS team to one that is finally starting to hit some traction. We have a long ways to go. This fall will be interesting with the teams performance and the official announcement on an Indoor Practice Facility and McGuirk improvements.

Thanks for the positive and negative comments and guess it's going to be a long off-season that this thread has gone on for so long.

Best wishes on the TV contracts and we'll continue to be playing a few of you guys.

AAC Basketball has never trailed the A10. The Wichita addition was to help us keep up with the Cartel + Big East.

Um Yea, and how's that going?

Again - out comes UConn and its' VERY over-inflated opinion of itself. The AAC has something going for it, but you are still on stilts rather than a solid 4 leg table. One big wind and you fall over.

UConn should be carrying the AAC - right now you are an absolute boat anchor. Congrats on that Hoop NC 5 years ago - and what have you done since then - trajectory down! Oh yes and you have lifetime achievement award for Geno - that's great for the annual 2 days a year that anyone cares about you around April 1st and 3rd.

Is adding Umass the answer - no - and we are not pretending to be, but to think we have nothing to offer is a little bit nearsighted. Rivalries are what make sports great. It brings interest from people who would normally otherwise care less. Yankees/Red Sox, Duke/Carolina, Army/Navy, USC/UCLA, Texas/Oklahoma, Mich/Mich St..... the list goes on and on for games of teams I would normally not follow except when they get to those special rival games.

THAT is where you are missing the point - you have this jumbled mish-mash of geographic teams and made-up rivalries (the Civil-conflict thing may be my all time favorite "nobody cares" rivalry game of all time). Yet you ignore a legitimate opportunity to get much needed national attention right in your own back yard.... Brilliant!!!!


UMass got out of the MAC deal mostly because NOBODY in Mass gives one flying F**K about any of those schools. UMass could be 1-20 and would fill the arena for a UConn or Temple game however. If they were 20-1 and Eastern Michigan was coming to town, they might not even draw as much as their AIC exhibition game.


Get off your high horse and start thinking like the business that College Sports has become.

(05-04-2018 10:14 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 09:34 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(05-03-2018 09:27 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Think the AAC is doing the right thing. They brought in Wichita State to solidify BB which will no longer trail the A10 and balance Navy.

Frankly this lull in conference realignment helps us as we continue to get our sh|t together. We've gone from a terrible FBS team to one that is finally starting to hit some traction. We have a long ways to go. This fall will be interesting with the teams performance and the official announcement on an Indoor Practice Facility and McGuirk improvements.

Thanks for the positive and negative comments and guess it's going to be a long off-season that this thread has gone on for so long.

Best wishes on the TV contracts and we'll continue to be playing a few of you guys.

AAC Basketball has never trailed the A10. The Wichita addition was to help us keep up with the Cartel + Big East.

Um Yea, and how's that going?

Again - out comes UConn and its' VERY over-inflated opinion of itself. The AAC has something going for it, but you are still on stilts rather than a solid 4 leg table. One big wind and you fall over.

UConn should be carrying the AAC - right now you are an absolute boat anchor. Congrats on that Hoop NC 5 years ago - and what have you done since then - trajectory down! Oh yes and you have lifetime achievement award for Geno - that's great for the annual 2 days a year that anyone cares about you around April 1st and 3rd.

Is adding Umass the answer - no - and we are not pretending to be, but to think we have nothing to offer is a little bit nearsighted. Rivalries are what make sports great. It brings interest from people who would normally otherwise care less. Yankees/Red Sox, Duke/Carolina, Army/Navy, USC/UCLA, Texas/Oklahoma, Mich/Mich St..... the list goes on and on for games of teams I would normally not follow except when they get to those special rival games.

THAT is where you are missing the point - you have this jumbled mish-mash of geographic teams and made-up rivalries (the Civil-conflict thing may be my all time favorite "nobody cares" rivalry game of all time). Yet you ignore a legitimate opportunity to get much needed national attention right in your own back yard.... Brilliant!!!!


UMass got out of the MAC deal mostly because NOBODY in Mass gives one flying F**K about any of those schools. UMass could be 1-20 and would fill the arena for a UConn or Temple game however. If they were 20-1 and Eastern Michigan was coming to town, they might not even draw as much as their AIC exhibition game.


Get off your high horse and start thinking like the business that College Sports has become.

LOL. Triggered.

OFF Topic, really ... nothing to do with the AAC.

Perhaps the thread should have been locked, but moving it here seems like ulterior motives by some one.

(05-06-2018 10:26 AM)Steve1981 Wrote:  OFF Topic, really ... nothing to do with the AAC.

Perhaps the thread should have been locked, but moving it here seems like ulterior motives by some one.

Where did they move it? Cannot tell in Tapatalk.


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