(06-14-2021 10:05 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(06-14-2021 09:38 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(06-14-2021 07:11 PM)MidknightWhiskey Wrote:  The AAC as it stands today would have BCS AQ status and is making their case for autonomy status.

(06-14-2021 07:36 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Apparently the old MW didnt "have a better product". It turns out the AAC has HIT ALL THREE of the criteria to qualify for an AQ slot as defined by the old BCS agreement. Thats something the old MW never accomplished. I thought that was an interesting tidbit buried in the letter Aresco wrote to the A5 conferences.

(06-14-2021 07:49 PM)MidknightWhiskey Wrote:  No offense to Utah, BYU and TCU but they are not a better product than the top of the AAC nor do they have the achievements of the top of the AAC. The MWC had 2/3, almost got there but didn't. The AAC has well surpassed all 3. The illusion of the AAC as a meager "group of" conference has been exposed. The only chance they don't join the club is if the top members, 3-5 of them, are poached.

Ok, before we all start printing up banners and such about the AAC meeting the old BCS standards for an AQ conference, I googled up just exactly what those standards were.

There's a lot of complicated detail that I'm not 100% sure I follow without duplicatign the math, which even I'm not obsessive enough to do.

But the part I can follow pretty easily is that, to achieve AQ status, a non-AQ conference had to be top 6 by the metrics.

So the AAC can beat their chest that they're in the top 6 by pretty much any metric you can come up with, but----so what? We knew the AAC is No. 6. The question is, are they closer to #5 or #7? And waving around the old BCS rules that were designed to keep the Big East in and the Mountain West out don't move that needle.

https://www.espn.com/blog/ncfnation/post...ed-sort-of

I'm too lazy to go back and check, johnbragg, but have you given much credit to the AAC over the years on this board? Many of your criticisms of the league and its "homer-ish" fans are valid. But I would hope you acknowledge the AAC is worthy of some compliments too. I just can't recall if you have offered some props in your previous posts. If you have, my apologies.

Probably not as much as I should, honestly. I'm thinking of looking at the 5-year attendance data I found and compared the AAC to the P5, and both Old Big Easts, and stack up the AAC against the rest of the G5. My guess is that the AAC is going to have a sizable lead, but I'll see when I look at the data.

I was a big bandwagon-rider when UCF was on their undefeated run.