(06-30-2019 09:46 AM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  AAC everyone has athletic potential but too much competition for a G5 conference. That TV deal is big time though with the ABC/CBS exposure.

There's not much evidence of that. In five years, the AAC has gotten the Access bid three times. One of the other times it went to the MWC, the other top G5 conference. Only once has the "big fish/small pond" gotten it.

I also don't think the MAC, SB, or CUSA can do anything about the fact that the AAC can raid them any time it wants. The saving grace is that no team in those three conferences is worth anything near $7m a year so that raid isn't coming, unless the P5 raids the AAC, and I don't see that coming either for exactly the same reason - no AAC school is worth $30m to a P5.

So sure, while anything can happen, the MAC is probably safe from raiding - for the forseeable future.