(11-23-2017 10:17 PM)OUGwave Wrote:  

(11-23-2017 02:52 PM)BroncoBailey Wrote:  

(11-23-2017 11:38 AM)baruna falls Wrote:  

(11-22-2017 06:29 PM)BroncoBailey Wrote:  

(11-22-2017 03:14 PM)Sellular1 Wrote:  So instead they say they evaluate the entire season from scratch every week.

If this is in fact the case, what impact will playing 1 less game than a potential 11-2 Boise have for the winner of the AAC? How big will that missed game end up being?

** EDIT: and no, I do not think that this year's Boise team deserves to be ranked ahead of a 1-loss or 2-loss AAC champion, except maybe USF, let alone an undefeated UCF. Just wondering about the weight of the missed game.

Would you be open as a fan for Boise to join AAC ?

I'd be open to a "best of the rest" conference, but not the AAC as it currently exists. Much like the MWC, the AAC has some good to great teams and some bottom feeders. If both conferences dropped the bottom feeders, realizing it would mean more losses year-in and year-out, I'd be all for it.

In the history of realignment, 2 conferences have never merged by dropping the bottom feeders in both leagues and forming a “best-of” conference. When mergers have happened, it is because the more powerful/stable conference picks up the best schools from the weaker league.

Ehhh. I can think of a couple “mergers” off the top of my head where schools were dropped. One was the big 12 (big8+part of SWC) and CUSA (a merger of the Metro and Great Midwest with some schools being left out).

(11-24-2017 02:08 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(11-23-2017 10:17 PM)OUGwave Wrote:  

(11-23-2017 02:52 PM)BroncoBailey Wrote:  

(11-23-2017 11:38 AM)baruna falls Wrote:  

(11-22-2017 06:29 PM)BroncoBailey Wrote:  If this is in fact the case, what impact will playing 1 less game than a potential 11-2 Boise have for the winner of the AAC? How big will that missed game end up being?

** EDIT: and no, I do not think that this year's Boise team deserves to be ranked ahead of a 1-loss or 2-loss AAC champion, except maybe USF, let alone an undefeated UCF. Just wondering about the weight of the missed game.

Would you be open as a fan for Boise to join AAC ?

I'd be open to a "best of the rest" conference, but not the AAC as it currently exists. Much like the MWC, the AAC has some good to great teams and some bottom feeders. If both conferences dropped the bottom feeders, realizing it would mean more losses year-in and year-out, I'd be all for it.

In the history of realignment, 2 conferences have never merged by dropping the bottom feeders in both leagues and forming a “best-of” conference. When mergers have happened, it is because the more powerful/stable conference picks up the best schools from the weaker league.

Ehhh. I can think of a couple “mergers” off the top of my head where schools were dropped. One was the big 12 (big8+part of SWC) and CUSA (a merger of the Metro and Great Midwest with some schools being left out).

What I said was that one conference has absorbed the best schools from the other. That is definitely the case with the Big 8/SWC merger. The Big 8 just invited four schools — all of the Big 8 schools stayed, they just added members. Oklahoma didn’t say, “hey, this is a great chance to drop Iowa State in the process.” That’s not how this works.

In the case of C-USA, no school from the Metro or Great Midwest that played football was not invited to C-USA. That was the entire point, it was to create an all-sports league. Some of the hoops schools tagged along, some weren’t interested.

Point is, schools don’t get dropped from both leagues in a 2-league merger. That’s why most of the threads on here about realignment where people assemble a new league out of the “top G5” programs don’t have any bearing on reality. The stronger conference will (in its entirety) invite the schools of its choice from the weaker. Which is exactly what the Big 8 did.