(09-07-2020 11:35 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(09-07-2020 08:34 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-06-2020 03:50 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  The thread is not about being "braggadocious." That's an obvious red herring, and it's also an implied ad hominem. It's about putting the strongest case forward for taking bold action to meet the conference's strategic objectives. The people who are objecting to the AAC fans tooting their conference's horn are the same people who are opposed to replacing UConn or conference expansion of any kind.

I'm fine with replacing UConn - if we can add a school that is of equal or better value.

But, the AAC is in the position of "any school that wants to join us we don't need, and any school we want to join us isn't interested". Despite what UConn-haters might think, UConn was the only state flagship (a significant prestige factor, has zero to do with football) and one of the most valuable members of the conference.

Bottom line is, the only schools in the G5 that would be worth adding to fill UConn's spot would be a few schools way out west (Boise, BYU, Colorado State, SDSU) and they are bad fits geographically and have shown no interest in joining us. Nobody in C-USA the MAC or SBC is worth adding.

IIRC, UConn was NOT one of the most valuable assets according to ESPN. if certain schools left, the contact could be diminished. Believe those schools included Houston, Cincinnati, USF, and UCF and maybe one other. Don't think UConn was included in that group.

UConn basketball was a loss, despite how mediocre to poor they had become in MBB. UConn football had gone past dumpster fire status. Other than padding the win totals of other teams, it was addition by subtraction in football.

Wrong. It was UConn, Temple, Cincinnati and Houston. No Florida schools.

Now UConn's value was probably from basketball.

And UConn has never got to be as much as a dumpster fire as Temple and Rutgers were when they were in the Big East. Rutgers usually lost to Temple. Temple had one season where they drew 17,000 fans---for the ENTIRE year!