(04-04-2018 12:56 PM)panite Wrote:  

(03-06-2018 10:39 AM)McKinney Wrote:  

(03-06-2018 09:03 AM)Huskypride Wrote:  honestly I want UMass on the BBall schedule as well and I would like to have yall in the AAC. Us UConn fans feel alone being the only new England team. I would like fire up the old Yankee conference rivalry. I firmly believe an invitation to the aac will give your program a jump start and that all athletic departments would improve.

With our long-standing Yankee rivalry and our rivalry with Temple, the American is certainly where we'd like to be.

UMASS, UCONN, Temple and Navy playing at least one of those 3 schools every year makes for a nice NE / Mid Atlantic travel package for fans of those institutions.

Who comes along for number fourteen - Army - BYU. With the way Army has rebounded the AAC might pick them up before BYU would ever cave in for a FB league membership though. Army would free up an OOC game for Navy if the Army Navy game became an AAC rivalry game. If the AAC would take Army then another basketball only would have to be added to balance the BB and Olympic side.

If BYU joined for all sports with UMASS then the AAC would be balanced for FB, BB, and the rest of the Olympic sports. If neither Army nor BYU joined then NMST is available for all sports to balance the Western Division. Football sucks but their BB is strong.

How many days until football.

I think VCU would fit that profile very well. A respected basketball school that gets the American into Virginia. Virginia is good recruiting grounds for both basketball and football.