(06-08-2021 12:39 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(06-08-2021 12:17 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(06-07-2021 11:37 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(06-07-2021 11:17 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Looks like the AAC could be stuck at 11 for a long time. Aresco needs to get to work on that rule change.

If they need an affiliate to tide them over until the picture post-2024 is clear, there are several available.

That might be less likely than Boise. Waaaaaay too many issues. Nobody is leaving a conference for a temporary affiliate status---so that means it must be an indy. UConn is a hard no for obvious reasons. That leaves UMass, Liberty, and NM State. Then---you'll either have to buy out a bunch of indy games in order to immediately free up their schedule---or---you can wait several years for their schedule to open up---which would put you around the mid-2020's---and it would be sort of a "whats the point" endeavor once you get that far down the road.

No. It looks like the AAC is essentially an 11 team football/basketball league for the forseeable future.....unless Aresco finally decides to invite VCU.....

So UConn is a "hard no for obvious reasons" while UMass and NM State would be in play if you were Aresco?

You're missing the egos and politics. UConn embarrassed the AAC by ditching it for the Big East. So the last thing the AAC schools are going to do is let you have your basketball cake and eat your football cake too by letting football re-join the AAC. It's like John Travolta said in Pulp Fiction "if you give that nimrod $1500 I'm going to bust him on general principle" (or something like that).

Some things the ego just can't tolerate. Pride is a big factor in anything related to academia.