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(04-27-2020 02:56 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(04-27-2020 01:41 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-27-2020 10:15 AM)MonarchsWon Wrote:  How is the AAC any different from a footprint standpoint than CUSA? It's basically the exact same footprint. Not sure why the AAC is always looked at as the best option. It's as far flung as any of the other conferences. Also, are we sure they are immune to the financial pressures others are facing? They, too, might need to break-up and consolidate into a more regional fit. Perhaps a mix of AAC / CUSA / Sun Belt by region will be the solution.

Not sure how the money works out, but at least the AAC is usually a respectable basketball league... enough where we could play for at-large bids and get games on TV. I'd still prefer the A10 for basketball because the AAC advantage vaporizes once Memphis, Houston, UCF and Cincinnati inevitably walk.

I don't see their departures as being a sure thing tbh. They all put on a show for the Big 12 a few years ago and were told thanks but no thanks. I suppose it's possible that Texas and Oklahoma trigger a mass exodus that forces a rump Big 12 to invite who they can from the AAC and MWC (and maybe Rice) to create a tweener conference, but if that happened, my guess is they'd have enough votes to force a dissolution, or at least compel it with luxurious parting gifts for the schools that couldn't find a power-conference home.

I'm sure most of the AAC would love to move up to the power conference ranks, but I don't see many easy paths there. And even if some of them left, there'd be enough that they'd be a better fit for ODU than CUSA *or* the A10, especially if they backfilled with good schools.

I don't see their departures as being a thing at all, at least not until the end of the GoRs in 2025. And with the SEC not needing one, and the ACC's decade extension, that leaves only The B1G, the Big XII and the PAC 12 in play even then.

Unless something completely unexpected happens with the B1G, or Texas and/or OK somehow get an SEC invite, nothing is going to happen.
If the Big XII was going to expand, they would have last year. Instead they rebuffed some AAC program overtures.

Done.