(05-02-2018 12:41 AM)McKinney Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 10:27 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  

(05-01-2018 10:23 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 11:50 AM)The Grape King Wrote:  

(04-30-2018 06:45 AM)panama Wrote:  Going beyond 12 would be ver[/color]y difficult unless someone says there is additional revenue involved or unless it works better organizationally for the league. I think we are much more likely to see a best of the rest league form if nobody leaves the AAC the next go around.

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Again, this is operating under the assumption that the AAC is a power conference and doesn't have improvements to make. Creating a serious basketball league (which you do by adding URI and VCU) and expanding into major markets (UMass and ODU) I can only imagine would add tons of value. And that's not considering what adding those big name public research schools and developing the Northeast as a whole does to the overall value. The Big 12 and ACC only need to change their lineups to keep up in the arms race. We still need to become a power conference.

Yikes

...well, people wouldn't be talking about improving AAC hoops if the bottom programs were actual basketball schools.

You really think that a top A10 team would be an AAC bottomfeeder?

Last year's rpi's
Bottom of AAC
USF ~278
ECU ~274
Tulane ~175

Bottom A10
Richmond ~176
St. Louis ~148
St. Joe's ~147
Dayton ~146
VCU ~135

Middle of the AAC
UConn ~123
SMU ~113
Memphis ~113
Tulsa ~89
UCF ~84
Temple ~52

Top of the A10
Davidson ~47
St. Bonnie ~24
URI ~19

Best of AAC
Houston ~18
Wichita ~16
Cincy ~6

I would say he is accurate.