(03-09-2014 12:34 AM)PirateMarv Wrote: (03-08-2014 05:01 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: If Wichita State, VCU, SLU, and all these other schools get invited in then my vote is for UC, UCONN, and Memphis to bolt and find another home.
"... What The AAC Will Do:
Nothing. And that sucks. They are going to play with 11 basketball teams in 2015 and keep Navy for football, which will prevent the league from ever playing 9 conference games and ruins Navy's schedule forever due to 8 conference games and 3 games against Army, Air Force and Notre Dame on the schedule every year. In the end, no one will be happy... ."
http://stholeary.quora.com/The-AACs-Next...ealignment
Well, guess what...
What the MW will do: NOTHING
A key part of the original premise is that the AAC needs to act preemptively ahead of the Mountain West, but nowhere has anyone established that the Mountain West is poised or likely to make any sorts of movement.
In fact, the Mountain West has a
worse record in acting proactively than even the old BE had. They could have acted proactively and added Boise State and Fresno State when those programs were at their height and they stubbornly refused which set up Utah and BYU and TCU to each leave the MW because the conference was failing to make adjustments. The MW only added Boise, Fresno, and Nevada as a reaction
AFTER their flagship programs of TCU (left for the Big East), Utah (left for the PAC12), and BYU (left for independent FB and WCC) had departed the conference.
So... If you're going to argue that somehow the AAC ***needs*** to act ahead of another conference, it seems to me that you should establish the case that another conference is poised to do something. But the other conference ISN'T poised to do anything.
So the AAC can afford to wait. Wichita State isn't on the MW's radar and the MW has shown no inclination to act in the past. If the AAC decides to add WSU at some point, they will likely be there...when the time is right. Or UNC-Charlotte. Or VCU. Or...
The correct course of action is (IMO) for the American to hold pat for 5-7 years and let things play out.