(03-26-2021 10:22 AM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  

(03-26-2021 10:02 AM)SMUleopold Wrote:  

(03-26-2021 02:10 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Is football the primary consideration—of course. But if you think Aresco doesn’t care about basketball you haven’t been paying attention. By the way—who was the last team added to the AAC? It must have been seen as a successful move because a couple of years later, the MW makes a failed run at adding Gonzaga. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

I’m not saying Aresco doesn’t care about basketball I’m saying he doesn’t care about it for expansion until after football has been established. Big difference.

Quote: No one really disagrees with you on that.

Multiple people have stated exactly that. Please go back and reread the thread.

And the discussion was based around who the conference would add in the coming years until it was hijacked to discuss basketball first options.

And you’ve heard multiple times why adding a b-ball only school is a mistake.

Yes, and the question is, would adding one of the "Western Expansion 4" be the same or better than adding VCU. I say yes. And the reason is, adding MW teams DECIMATES our closest competition and further separates us from the G4. Stealing an A-10 team does not.

No, that might be the question you're asking but I have to say I'm completely uninterested in it. Our competition needs to be the bottom hangers of the P5 and we're right on top of them right now - I say we're a better FB conference than the Pac 12 right now and we need to keep pushing this.