(06-23-2019 10:45 AM)PATiger Wrote:  

(06-23-2019 10:31 AM)dcg141 Wrote:  

(06-23-2019 10:26 AM)PATiger Wrote:  There are no schools left who offer any value as an all-sports member. The AAC is the conference that represents the best of the leftovers after the Power 5 have taken what they want.

If the conference or the remaining members had any long term strategic vision, they would've put together the best football conference possible and never attempted a bush league hybrid approach of football only members and non-football members. That garbage didn't work in the old Big East. It didn't work in CUSA. And it's obviously not working now.

The best thing the conference could do is stick with the remaining 10 all-sports members. Tell Wichita State to add a football team or get out. Tell Navy to compete in all sports or get out. Neither one of them add enough value to be part time members. The conference should actively push the remaining 10 schools to focus the majority of their resources on football, which is the only sport that matters in college athletics. The bowl games and national championship games make the conferences a ton more money than the basketball tournament does. Football has always driven the bus and always will. Focus on making a solid conference of 10 is a heck of a lot better than a flaky conference of 14.

It became less bush league when the ACC allowed ND in without football.

If you're comparing Notre Dame to Wichita State, you can quietly exit the conversation now.

It is the Notre Dame basketball and other sports. Yes you can easily compare Notre Dame basketball to Wichita State.