(03-16-2023 10:49 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote: (03-16-2023 10:43 PM)EarthBoundMisfit Wrote: (03-16-2023 10:40 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote: (03-16-2023 10:37 PM)jsw3ent Wrote: (03-16-2023 10:18 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote: That's short-sighted, dude....
I couldn't care less about Houston---or the credits. Unless MEMPHIS is favored --or I have $$$ on the favorite---I always pull for the underdog and little guy.
Do you understand how much money the conference will distribute to JUST Memphis if Houston makes a several game run?
its not always about the dollars.
Its about the rivalries that are built over the years.
I don't like Houston, but I respect their program. Like us...they rebuilt their image in the AAC. If they are so flippant to leave...let em.
Memphis can thrive without them.
Really, dude? You can be mad at the BigXII for not taking us, but don't act like we wouldn't be doing the same thing.
I'm not mad at anyone for anything.
I'm a Joe Average fan. Rivalries take time to develop. Fans of both sides help shape them. The schools themselves do as well.
Sometimes conference pairings take off and become bitter rivals. Sometimes... No matter how hard they try or you try... You just cannot work up a good hatred for another school.
I'm sure ECU is very good at baseball, but other than that... Meh they really haven't added anything interesting to the AAC.
I'd rather have a root canal than play ECU.
Don't hate them, that's the problem.
I've worked up a good healthy respect for Houston and UCF. But they earned it the hard way.
Now we as fans are being asked to work up a fever pitch for Rice, FAU, and UTSA.
I don't think that will ever happen.
I appreciate UAB being back in our orbit, but hell USM should be in our league. They earned it. Not Rice, not North Texas.
If we're gonna be in this conference... I want it to be somewhat amusing and self fulfilling. I want schools that you learn to love to hate.... Like Louisville, or Ole Prius.
Instead of chicken salad... The AAC with all the hard work it's accomplished gave us chicken sh!t.
Instead of ready made rivalries already established...it gave us more schools we have nothing in common with...that we have to start all over with.
I'm middle aged now. Too old to invest much energy hoping that Memphis and North Texas or UTSA learn to hate each other.