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(11-28-2018 08:53 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(11-28-2018 05:34 PM)Not Duane Wrote:  

(11-28-2018 01:46 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  For better or worse, the American bridges that sizable chasm between G5 and P5. So unless the 2019 TV negotiation really enriches the conference (not holding my breath on that), we will remain a schizophrenic alliance: half the schools that compete effectively against the P5; half that can't beat High Point or UNC Wilmington on the basketball court or put 9,000 in the stands for football.

Maybe if TV recognizes this during the contract renewal process, they'll collude with a P5 and cherry pick from the top half. The remainder of the AAC would then reload from other "G" conferences but would look much more like its peer group at that point.

Regarding a conference basketball challenge, if the American wants to be P6, it wouldn't make sense to enter into one of those with a G5 conference. Realizing G5 is a misnomer in basketball, but it's becoming code for "mid-major" in some circles. If the AAC strives to be considered alongside the P5 and Big East in basketball, it only diminishes our brand to have a challenge with the MWC or the Valley. Here again, UC, UCONN and others won't have trouble getting headliner games for TV from the P5. So each man for himself in this case, as the saying goes.

You've got the process backwards...the P5 will shed weak sisters into the G5 and split the pot between fewer members. Mark it down.

probably

but either way, the Big East is on the outside looking in as well (and that means XU too).