(04-21-2021 11:02 AM)SMUstang Wrote:  

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(04-21-2021 10:45 AM)Bogg Wrote:  

(04-21-2021 10:28 AM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  

(04-20-2021 11:34 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Thats a popular belief, but I dont see how it could be true. If you look at which members actually still had voting privileges at the time (just UConn, USF, Cinci, and the C7), the only way for Tulane to get an invite in late fall of 2012 was to capture no less than 5 of the 7 Catholic school votes. These are schools that were perfectly comfortable voting "no" at the same meeting when it came to giving ECU a full membership. So, they werent timid little souls. There may have been a C7 school that was unhappy with Tulane---but most of them seemed ok with it as the vast majority of the C7 clearly voted to give them an invite.

I think the issue was that Tulane had never (and arguably, has never) invested in basketball whereas the other entries (Memphis, Houston, SMU) had some basketball commitment and success.

If we're being honest, the C7 could have kept Tulane a football affiliate if they were still invested in the hybrid model. Had they delivered an ultimatum along the lines of "you can have us or Tulane basketball, but not both" to the football side, Tulane's playing basketball in the SoCon right now. The real issue is likely that they could all see where things were headed in terms of geography/travel, opponents, and tv money and contraction/realignment with the Fox Sports contract was much more appealing.

I respectfully disagree with you, Tulane is playing basketball in the AAC along with all of their other sports.

Nah. As a practical matter, the football side wouldn't have had the votes to force the issue if the C7 was committed to both staying and not sharing a league with Tulane, and Tulane wouldn't have turned down a football affiliate invite at the time. That being said, UConn and Cincy and Temple and Memphis aren't going to choose Tulane basketball over a block of schools including Nova, Georgetown, Marquette, and St John's either.