(12-14-2019 08:13 AM)Agust Wrote:  

(12-14-2019 07:20 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(12-14-2019 01:01 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(12-13-2019 09:41 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(12-13-2019 08:39 PM)Agust Wrote:  i prefer SDSU over AF also and san diego is in a major metro market that fits the profile that the american teams have.it will also add a good basketball team. the bad thing is that its a loner out there and we don't have enough money to add an additional 3 teams to make it work.

and if it were so that would actually be the AAC West and the current AAC West will be renamed AAC Central and the conference will really be American from coast to coast.

The only way SDSU makes sense at this point is if the AAC went to 14 or 16 addint 3 to 5 MW teams. ESPN might spring for the pro-rata increase for 3 MW teams (21 million). Thats 18 games from the 3 top MW draws. That probably gives ESPN all the western late night ESPN2/ESPNU content they really need.

No---but in a 8 team playoff with a G5 slot---that 14-16 member AAC basically has an auto-bid for that G5 playoff slot. The AAC champ would have to be a 3 loss team to have much of any chance of losing the slot. The main reason would be the league would have such quality that the winner would almost always have to have several top 25 wins GARNERED DURING CONFERENCE play. NO other G5 is getting that schedule boost.

Whew! I thought I was the only one that understood that major point. Once you understand that, everything else is secondary. Even the Boise hate would have to be secondary to that. Once you see the future from that perspective it'll really help some people focus in on the few programs that actually make sense and it'll help some realize how far fetched others are. Just remember the p5 are starting to open up about an expanded playoff with a 5-1-2 format.

this requires that espn backs it up with $$$. currently our contract doesn't allow for the addition of 4 teams which sucks. i don't think espn is feeling that generous.
realistically we are looking at either one team in all sports or the split option.

First off we don't need 4 teams. With UCONN gone we would have to expand by 1 to get back to 12 or 3 to get to 14. If we expand by 1 it wouldn't cost ESPN a penny extra. If we were to expand by 3 .
If we got
BYU ---- that would be a revenue neutral addition because ESPN is already paying them
AAC type money
Boise--- ESPN would actually be saving money because they would no longer have to
For the entire mwc when all they really want is Boise.
SDSU---- pretty much the same situation as Boise to a lesser extent
The result is defacto power status for a "g5" auto-bid. Even if the powers don't just grant this its own auto-bid there wouldn't be any way a g4 could beat the AAC out because of the sos argument.