(04-25-2021 12:27 PM)4xGrad Wrote:  I guess I am getting old. I don't mind taking a little more time to get things right.

I don't run out and buy a car, I study all the options, pros and cons for each option, which can take me months of study and evaluation and consultation. I tend to be happier with my decisions these days.

I don't know but I hope that is what they are doing. Lots and lots of variables. lots and lots of possibilities. When I hear that Aresco came west and had meetings with BYU I read that as they are studying the options and possibilities. I see no reason to have to make a decision today. I expect to hear nothing until after the next football season at the earliest. Quite possibly latter than that. There are so many moving parts here and everyone involved has to be convinced of a common goal and a path to achieve it.

You and I may be able to come to agreement in a short time frame but with this kind of move we are talking literally thousands of people coming to agreement. Presidents, boards of trusties, athletic departments, donors, politicians... This is a heavy lift. I am impressed with Aresco. I think if anyone can do it he can.

Understood. Very sensible points.

The reason I've become so impatient is because I feel that AAC fans have been a bunch of saps who have fallen for the perpetual "P6" song & dance - - this dog and pony show - - that's been playing and replaying like a broken record for the past 3-4 years, with no progress of any kind being made since Wichita State joined the conference in 2017. So I'm fed up with it, that's all.

I like Aresco, too, but whenever the conference Presidents decide to go into "turtle" mode and hide in their collective shell, then Aresco seems to be left "helplessly twisting in the wind," to turn a phrase, with no support from the conference and nothing gets done for months at a time.

Our alma maters thought that they were joining a power conference nearly a decade ago, when they decided to join the Big East, which was a full-fledged power conference. Then, the P5 conferences plundered one school after another; then the name was sold, UConn ended up with most of the cash from the sale, tainted the conference with their recruiting scandals and then ran off like a delinquent parent. Since then, the dream has been slipping farther and farther out of our grasp ever since then. This situation is no longer acceptable.

There are a bunch of AAC fans who have been very frustrated by the conference's lack of progress. We don't all agree on who is at fault or exactly what their mistakes have been, but, to paraphrase the classic film, Network, a lot of us have felt this way at times:

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this any more!."

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