In those 7 leagues you have a total of 87 programs in a High Resource Basketball (HRB) conference.
Then you can thrown in other programs with budgets of $5 million or more.
48) Gonzaga University 7,261,657
63) Saint Louis University 6,414,061
74) Brigham Young University-Provo 6,081,807
79) San Diego State University 5,734,713
82) Virginia Commonwealth University 5,676,415
86) University of Nevada-Las Vegas 5,386,263
89) University of Dayton 5,000,454
Only 7 other programs with budgets over $5 million bringing the the total HRB to 94 schools. They are concentrated in the WCC, A10 and MWC. Three more conferences to round out the Top 10 in basketball.
4 AAC schools fall below the threshold. The numbers say 92 schools, but USF the 92nd does not have the attendance, so I drop them in the high mid range with Tulane. Central Florida, East Carolina fall short of that.
really 8 of the AAC are high resource, and 2 are very high-mid major resource, 2 are high mid-major. So I'd adjust you list to say 8 AAC, reduce your total to 83.
The AAC cannot be considered in the Major-6 (M6 to distinguish from P5), because they lack a major network contract and have laggards. Football dilutes the message. They have the potential to make it an M7 if they shift focus from Football to Basketball and get the laggards to improve. I don't see that under the current management of Aresco (who should have been fired years ago).
(04-08-2017 11:25 AM)Stugray2 Wrote: 4 AAC schools fall below the threshold. The numbers say 92 schools, but USF the 92nd does not have the attendance, so I drop them in the high mid range with Tulane. Central Florida, East Carolina fall short of that.
really 8 of the AAC are high resource, and 2 are very high-mid major resource, 2 are high mid-major. So I'd adjust you list to say 8 AAC, reduce your total to 83.
The AAC cannot be considered in the Major-6 (M6 to distinguish from P5), because they lack a major network contract and have laggards. Football dilutes the message. They have the potential to make it an M7 if they shift focus from Football to Basketball and get the laggards to improve. I don't see that under the current management of Aresco (who should have been fired years ago).
Dumb. Except ECU, those programs just had new regimes installed. That was the plan before the conference even started. It took time to cycle the old coaches out.
UCF just made the NIT F4 in Season 1 of Johnny Dawkins, and are widely believed to be an NCAA team in Season 2.
Every conference has a 'bottom'. If you're putting UCF in the bottom after an NIT Final Four (and poised for a possible NCAA season) then I guess its not that bad.
Look at this crowd at UCF. 10,000+ sellout.
(This post was last modified: 04-08-2017 04:55 PM by BigEastHomer.)
(04-08-2017 11:25 AM)Stugray2 Wrote: 4 AAC schools fall below the threshold. The numbers say 92 schools, but USF the 92nd does not have the attendance, so I drop them in the high mid range with Tulane. Central Florida, East Carolina fall short of that.
really 8 of the AAC are high resource, and 2 are very high-mid major resource, 2 are high mid-major. So I'd adjust you list to say 8 AAC, reduce your total to 83.
The AAC cannot be considered in the Major-6 (M6 to distinguish from P5), because they lack a major network contract and have laggards. Football dilutes the message. They have the potential to make it an M7 if they shift focus from Football to Basketball and get the laggards to improve. I don't see that under the current management of Aresco (who should have been fired years ago).
Dumb. Except ECU, those programs just had new regimes installed. That was the plan before the conference even started. It took time to recycle the old coaches out.
UCF just made the NIT F4 in Season 1 of Johnny Dawkins, and are widely believed to be an NCAA team in Season 2.
Every conference has a 'bottom'. If you're putting UCF in the bottom after an NIT Final Four (and poised for a possible NCAA season) then I guess its not that bad.
Look at this crowd at UCF. 10,000+ sellout.
Not dumb. Every program has potential, and every program has energy and excitement with a new staff. It's what you do on the court and how you sustain it that judges how strong a program is.
Let's see where UCF, USF, Tulane, and ECU are in a few years before saying they've turned a corner. Historically, they have still done nothing.
(04-08-2017 04:36 PM)Kittonhead Wrote: The AAC is a *new* power conference.
They haven't had time to build out their programs yet.
Technically, the AAC is the continuation of the Big East, with a new name. The "New" Big East is an entirely new conference. The Autobid from the old Big East belonged to the AAC.