(04-23-2018 03:30 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  

(04-23-2018 03:16 PM)McKinney Wrote:  I've always thought of AAC and MWC as being on par with each other. Would CSU and Air Force leave for that? Especially if Air Force has to keep its basketball in MWC?

In which reality are we par with the mwc?

Hmmm...
Masseys Composite Rankings, Conf Avg, end of each year:
'13 AAC 72.05, mwc 79.04
'14 AAC 83.93, mwc 76.73
'15 AAC 68.95, mwc 86.79
'16 AAC 68.68, mwc 78.46
'17 AAC 66.69, mwc 83.81
Better 4 out of 5 years; in the year we weren't we were closer to them than they have been to us since.

Twice as many viewers
Better attendance every year - generally speaking 15-20% better
Recruiting rankings better top to bottom year after year

I've got head to head around here somewhere, but since 2013 the current lineup of AAC teams has a winning record vs current mwc teams
Edited to address your points (must have been typing at the same time):
Exposure clear advantage AAC - CCG on ABC vs ESPN or ESPN2, additional over-the-air games (USF-UCF this year, Houston-Memphis in '16, Houston-Navy in '15)
Basketball "competitive" still tbd, but we expect to be continually getting more tournament teams.
Budgets/coaches salaries edge to AAC
Facilities edge to AAC (couple notable exceptions - I guess CSU's new stadium is nice, and UNLV will play in NFL palace (hence all the PAC12 h&H games they're getting)