(04-19-2021 05:37 PM)TonyTiger06 Wrote:  

(04-16-2021 10:09 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(04-16-2021 06:37 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  The only new ground in those comments when they were uttered is the idea of going to 14 is acceptable. ... that was an option when the AAC was still the Big East.

I get it - - you're trying to down the significance of his statement, and that's ok with me. I would just point out that:

Even though it it was always "an option," it's not something that the Commissioner had ever talked about publicly before January 21st

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Nevertheless, if you consider that to be the only new ground in the Commissioner's comments, then I gather that you didn't find this statement by the Commissioner to be the least bit newsworthy or interesting:

"We’re trying to figure out what our strategy is going to be."

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If you didn't find that noteworthy, I can only assume that you're enough of an AAC insider to have known that this has been the situation for quite some time now, and if you were, then it might not have been news to you.

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It was news to me, however, and that's why I created this thread - - to try to present some helpful ideas about the kinds of strategies that might be implemented successfully.

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I think that the conference should at least consider expanding to 16 with the support/approval of ESPN, of course. If they will approve eight $8 million per team expansion contract agreement for the remainder of our contract time, I would be cool with it ... .

If they did, I would be cool with taking 4 all sports team from the mountain west conference and Air Force as a football only member with the Olympic sports team to be determined.

I think that is 16 team conference might experience less growing pangs than just 12 or 14, if we really wanted Boise State.