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RE: Could Rice restart the SWC in the post-Covid climate?
(07-20-2021 11:05 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
(07-20-2021 10:08 AM)SMUstang Wrote:  
(07-20-2021 09:31 AM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  
(07-20-2021 08:32 AM)SMUstang Wrote:  Schools added to the AAC since 2011 include SMU, Houston, Memphis in 2013, Tulane, East Carolina, and Tulsa in 2014. That being said, Rice is where they should be given their athletic budget.

Except their budget is larger than Tulsa and Tulane.

I'm not going to argue, maybe the AAC was going for markets at that time. But why ECU?

If I recall, ECU was added first as a football-only affiliate, and then when the American under it's prior branding was raided again, it got an upgrade.

Perhaps they ran out of candidates that added the kinds of markets that they were looking for and were forced to look for schools that demonstrated an ability to get people to pay attention in the market they happened to be in.

In hindsight, it night have been better if ECU had remained "football only" and someone like VCU was added for all other sports. But the conference feared another "football vs basketball" split.

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