(01-31-2019 04:25 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:24 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:23 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:14 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:12 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  Honest question. What airline is Memphis a hub for? I've never flown one that goes through there.

Frontier or Allegiance- one of those airlines where parts fall off midflight

connecting flights. The center of the country. Fed-Ex hub was put in Memphis for that very reason. Not sure if it's still that way. If you were going to send a package from Baltimore to DC. The package would travel Baltimore to Memphis to DC.

So FedEx is going to ship fans to the tourney?

Brand new Fedex store opened next to me so that’s convenient

Think we can get a bulk discount??

Not Tulane fans

(01-31-2019 04:07 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:52 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:48 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:14 PM)SHOCK_value Wrote:  Geography is hard.

DFW is part of the I-35 corridor, as are fully 1/3rd of AAC MBB programs, with two more within reasonably easy driving distance.

Nashville is central for Memphis and Cincy, and then literally no one else.

Huh? Nashville is smack dab in the middle, and it would truly be neutral. So you're okay with SMU having home court every single year.

Another location that is central east to west would be New Orleans. Talk about a great city to hang out in for a few days.

It's not on SMU's home court ... that's the entire point of what people are trying to make. Even same city is ok but not preferred. On the actual home court is not ok.

I'm from Chicago originally. Depaul played at the Rosemont Horizon. If Depaul was in our conference and the tournament was at the United Center, trust me, That would be a home game for Depaul. Big Time!

DePaul has no fans. Poor analogy.

(01-31-2019 04:34 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:25 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:24 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:23 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:14 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Frontier or Allegiance- one of those airlines where parts fall off midflight

connecting flights. The center of the country. Fed-Ex hub was put in Memphis for that very reason. Not sure if it's still that way. If you were going to send a package from Baltimore to DC. The package would travel Baltimore to Memphis to DC.

So FedEx is going to ship fans to the tourney?

Brand new Fedex store opened next to me so that’s convenient

Think we can get a bulk discount??

Not Tulane fans

Will fit in one box anyways

(01-31-2019 04:24 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:23 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:14 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:12 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:04 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  The best part of DFW is that the airport is now the hub of hubs. O'hare, Atlanta, DFW, Denver, Memphis are all hub airports. Too far to drive though for most schools. UConn fans would have to fly. But F them. They're all rich anyway. : )

Seriously, if Nashville is not going to work then I would pick N.O. for sure.

Honest question. What airline is Memphis a hub for? I've never flown one that goes through there.

Frontier or Allegiance- one of those airlines where parts fall off midflight

connecting flights. The center of the country. Fed-Ex hub was put in Memphis for that very reason. Not sure if it's still that way. If you were going to send a package from Baltimore to DC. The package would travel Baltimore to Memphis to DC.

Gotcha .. so it's not a hub for anyone but Fedex.

United hub is Chicago, but basically every airline in the world used Chicago for CONNECTING flights. I haven't lived in Memphis since the 80's. Delta was a hub then I believe.

Regardless, it's still has high traffic because of it's location and the fact several airlines connect there. I was on a Southwest flight with a couple of soon to be Southwest pilots on their way to Memphis for training.

Looks like today, most flights through Memphis are American, Southwest, Delta, Frontier, US Airways, and Air Canada. There some smaller ones as well.

Pretty sure you can ship a Horse via FedEx.... Why not a Memphis fan? They're both animals.

(01-31-2019 03:49 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:14 PM)SHOCK_value Wrote:  Geography is hard.

DFW is part of the I-35 corridor, as are fully 1/3rd of AAC MBB programs, with two more within reasonably easy driving distance.

Nashville is central for Memphis and Cincy, and then literally no one else.

Nashville really IS the central location of the conference, but not only does the SEC already host there, the AAC just doesn't have enough support for neutral site games to make it a viable location. So hosting there wouldn't work. The conference has tried the method of hosting it in locations where they have a member with significant support, but people still didn't show up to games at all unless their team was involved.

Fort Worth is a location that gave the conference the best deal in order to get events into their brand new arena. That's all there was to it. They have essentially punted on having a good tournament atmosphere, and it's hard to blame them.

Ft Worth is far from the ideal site for UC fans, but at least there are direct flights from CVG to DFW, so I think it should work fine. Personally, I'm excited for Memphis this year. Hope enough Tiger fans show up to non-Memphis games to make it a decent atmosphere.

Nashville is the geographical center of the conference. It is drivable for two teams, maybe three.

DFW has 6 drivable locations for schools and is an alumni base for nearly everyone. Rather than bet on one school to be good and fill it up they are diversifying it. Dallas is closer than st. Louis to Wichita who traveled well there, around the corner from SMU, Houston and Tulsa are down the road and have their largest alumni bases there outside of their home city. Memphis is drivable, so is New Orleans. ECU hasn't been a factor in forever. The Florida schools and Uconn are far away no matter where you put and that's mostly true for Philadelphia too. All have direct flights to DFW. Really it's only not a good fit for Cincy.

Add in that it's usually a big xii area but they have their tournament in KC for Kansas and it makes a lot of sense, especially if a deal was offered by the arena people.

(01-31-2019 04:34 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:07 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:52 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:48 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:14 PM)SHOCK_value Wrote:  Geography is hard.

DFW is part of the I-35 corridor, as are fully 1/3rd of AAC MBB programs, with two more within reasonably easy driving distance.

Nashville is central for Memphis and Cincy, and then literally no one else.

Huh? Nashville is smack dab in the middle, and it would truly be neutral. So you're okay with SMU having home court every single year.

Another location that is central east to west would be New Orleans. Talk about a great city to hang out in for a few days.

It's not on SMU's home court ... that's the entire point of what people are trying to make. Even same city is ok but not preferred. On the actual home court is not ok.

I'm from Chicago originally. Depaul played at the Rosemont Horizon. If Depaul was in our conference and the tournament was at the United Center, trust me, That would be a home game for Depaul. Big Time!

DePaul has no fans. Poor analogy.

: )

(01-31-2019 04:45 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:24 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:23 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:14 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:12 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  Honest question. What airline is Memphis a hub for? I've never flown one that goes through there.

Frontier or Allegiance- one of those airlines where parts fall off midflight

connecting flights. The center of the country. Fed-Ex hub was put in Memphis for that very reason. Not sure if it's still that way. If you were going to send a package from Baltimore to DC. The package would travel Baltimore to Memphis to DC.

Gotcha .. so it's not a hub for anyone but Fedex.

United hub is Chicago, but basically every airline in the world used Chicago for CONNECTING flights. I haven't lived in Memphis since the 80's. Delta was a hub then I believe.

Regardless, it's still has high traffic because of it's location and the fact several airlines connect there. I was on a Southwest flight with a couple of soon to be Southwest pilots on their way to Memphis for training.

Looks like today, most flights through Memphis are American, Southwest, Delta, Frontier, US Airways, and Air Canada. There some smaller ones as well.

Delta removed their hub in 2013.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...40963.html

It probably has traffic, just not in the same category as the other ones that you toss Memphis in with because they are true hubs that the majority of their flights connect through so it means a lot of chances for cheaper non-stop flights. Most people would have to have at least one stop to make it to Memphis.

Overall not a big deal though, you can say that about every airport. I was just actually curious who had a hub there because I didn't know of any beside FedEx.

(01-31-2019 04:04 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:49 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:14 PM)SHOCK_value Wrote:  Geography is hard.

DFW is part of the I-35 corridor, as are fully 1/3rd of AAC MBB programs, with two more within reasonably easy driving distance.

Nashville is central for Memphis and Cincy, and then literally no one else.

Nashville really IS the central location of the conference, but not only does the SEC already host there, the AAC just doesn't have enough support for neutral site games to make it a viable location. So hosting there wouldn't work. The conference has tried the method of hosting it in locations where they have a member with significant support, but people still didn't show up to games at all unless their team was involved.

Fort Worth is a location that gave the conference the best deal in order to get events into their brand new arena. That's all there was to it. They have essentially punted on having a good tournament atmosphere, and it's hard to blame them.

Ft Worth is far from the ideal site for UC fans, but at least there are direct flights from CVG to DFW, so I think it should work fine. Personally, I'm excited for Memphis this year. Hope enough Tiger fans show up to non-Memphis games to make it a decent atmosphere.

The best part of DFW is that the airport is now the hub of hubs. O'hare, Atlanta, DFW, Denver, Memphis are all hub airports. Too far to drive though for most schools. UConn fans would have to fly. But F them. They're all rich anyway. : )

Seriously, if Nashville is not going to work then I would pick N.O. for sure.

As someone who travels far too much for my own liking, I'm not sure you can put Memphis in that group with all those other airports. Memphis is only a cargo hub, not a passenger hub. It's actually smaller on a pax basis than Cincinnati's airport.

Memphis is convenient to drive for most, but not at all to fly.

(01-31-2019 04:50 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:49 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:14 PM)SHOCK_value Wrote:  Geography is hard.

DFW is part of the I-35 corridor, as are fully 1/3rd of AAC MBB programs, with two more within reasonably easy driving distance.

Nashville is central for Memphis and Cincy, and then literally no one else.

Nashville really IS the central location of the conference, but not only does the SEC already host there, the AAC just doesn't have enough support for neutral site games to make it a viable location. So hosting there wouldn't work. The conference has tried the method of hosting it in locations where they have a member with significant support, but people still didn't show up to games at all unless their team was involved.

Fort Worth is a location that gave the conference the best deal in order to get events into their brand new arena. That's all there was to it. They have essentially punted on having a good tournament atmosphere, and it's hard to blame them.

Ft Worth is far from the ideal site for UC fans, but at least there are direct flights from CVG to DFW, so I think it should work fine. Personally, I'm excited for Memphis this year. Hope enough Tiger fans show up to non-Memphis games to make it a decent atmosphere.

Nashville is the geographical center of the conference. It is drivable for two teams, maybe three.

DFW has 6 drivable locations for schools and is an alumni base for nearly everyone. Rather than bet on one school to be good and fill it up they are diversifying it. Dallas is closer than st. Louis to Wichita who traveled well there, around the corner from SMU, Houston and Tulsa are down the road and have their largest alumni bases there outside of their home city. Memphis is drivable, so is New Orleans. ECU hasn't been a factor in forever. The Florida schools and Uconn are far away no matter where you put and that's mostly true for Philadelphia too. All have direct flights to DFW. Really it's only not a good fit for Cincy.

Add in that it's usually a big xii area but they have their tournament in KC for Kansas and it makes a lot of sense, especially if a deal was offered by the arena people.

I hope you are right. I like attending the tourney when I can. Have made it to a few. The next one that draws well and has a consistently even decent atmosphere will be the first. Half of the conference can't get fans to go to their own gyms. I don't see people traveling well. I remain skeptical on Ft Worth, but I'd love to be wrong.

(01-31-2019 04:20 PM)invisiblehand Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:12 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:04 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:49 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:14 PM)SHOCK_value Wrote:  Geography is hard.

DFW is part of the I-35 corridor, as are fully 1/3rd of AAC MBB programs, with two more within reasonably easy driving distance.

Nashville is central for Memphis and Cincy, and then literally no one else.

Nashville really IS the central location of the conference, but not only does the SEC already host there, the AAC just doesn't have enough support for neutral site games to make it a viable location. So hosting there wouldn't work. The conference has tried the method of hosting it in locations where they have a member with significant support, but people still didn't show up to games at all unless their team was involved.

Fort Worth is a location that gave the conference the best deal in order to get events into their brand new arena. That's all there was to it. They have essentially punted on having a good tournament atmosphere, and it's hard to blame them.

Ft Worth is far from the ideal site for UC fans, but at least there are direct flights from CVG to DFW, so I think it should work fine. Personally, I'm excited for Memphis this year. Hope enough Tiger fans show up to non-Memphis games to make it a decent atmosphere.

The best part of DFW is that the airport is now the hub of hubs. O'hare, Atlanta, DFW, Denver, Memphis are all hub airports. Too far to drive though for most schools. UConn fans would have to fly. But F them. They're all rich anyway. : )

Seriously, if Nashville is not going to work then I would pick N.O. for sure.

Honest question. What airline is Memphis a hub for? I've never flown one that goes through there.

FedEx lol.

Just thought I'd add that Cincy is a Delta Hub.

Cincy used to be a Delta hub, but now they are just a 'focus city'. Basically, CVG gets a decent amount of additional direct flights, but only light connecting traffic. It's actually a low key amazing airport to take a connection through. I always try to connect through there when I need a connection and CVG has a direct flight.

Going to be interesting to see what Delta does once their lease on the terminal there is up.

(01-31-2019 04:54 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:45 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:24 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:23 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:14 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Frontier or Allegiance- one of those airlines where parts fall off midflight

connecting flights. The center of the country. Fed-Ex hub was put in Memphis for that very reason. Not sure if it's still that way. If you were going to send a package from Baltimore to DC. The package would travel Baltimore to Memphis to DC.

Gotcha .. so it's not a hub for anyone but Fedex.

United hub is Chicago, but basically every airline in the world used Chicago for CONNECTING flights. I haven't lived in Memphis since the 80's. Delta was a hub then I believe.

Regardless, it's still has high traffic because of it's location and the fact several airlines connect there. I was on a Southwest flight with a couple of soon to be Southwest pilots on their way to Memphis for training.

Looks like today, most flights through Memphis are American, Southwest, Delta, Frontier, US Airways, and Air Canada. There some smaller ones as well.

Delta removed their hub in 2013.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...40963.html

It probably has traffic, just not in the same category as the other ones that you toss Memphis in with because they are true hubs that the majority of their flights connect through so it means a lot of chances for cheaper non-stop flights. Most people would have to have at least one stop to make it to Memphis.

Overall not a big deal though, you can say that about every airport. I was just actually curious who had a hub there because I didn't know of any beside FedEx.

Fine it's not as big as the others but you're not going to have a problem getting competitive pricing and a flight into Memphis International. I also noticed that I forgot to put in United.

(01-31-2019 02:49 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 02:14 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 02:08 PM)cscottl1981 Wrote:  Are there no plans to add Wichita to the list of AAC Tournament host cities? Is that why these dudes are so bitter?

Reading comprehension issues are pretty common on the board.

The tournament is moving to Ft. Worth and I doubt it leaves the metroplex until there is signficant conference realignment. It is technically now located in a central neutral city. As it should be.

We are all aware that ColdFever was talking about a neutral site to make us what he considers legitimate as opposed to having any one team hosting the event. But he always has this underlying message he trolls into the conversation, and more times than not his trolling is pointed in the direction of Memphis for some reason.

He's made mention several times about us having the tournament prior to yesterday and how it was unfair.

We all know he's mad as hell that we could sneak into the tournament in which Wichita basically has no chance and it's killing him. With all his bull**** about Penny is a joke hire, the Lomax thing, WSU chestpuffing last year, Memphis fans are sick of it. So yeah, it's fun to poke a stick at him once in a while.

I can’t even count on both hands all of the hypocrisies laced into this post. Absolutely LOL.

(01-31-2019 05:14 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:54 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:45 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:24 PM)Stickboy46 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 04:23 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  connecting flights. The center of the country. Fed-Ex hub was put in Memphis for that very reason. Not sure if it's still that way. If you were going to send a package from Baltimore to DC. The package would travel Baltimore to Memphis to DC.

Gotcha .. so it's not a hub for anyone but Fedex.

United hub is Chicago, but basically every airline in the world used Chicago for CONNECTING flights. I haven't lived in Memphis since the 80's. Delta was a hub then I believe.

Regardless, it's still has high traffic because of it's location and the fact several airlines connect there. I was on a Southwest flight with a couple of soon to be Southwest pilots on their way to Memphis for training.

Looks like today, most flights through Memphis are American, Southwest, Delta, Frontier, US Airways, and Air Canada. There some smaller ones as well.

Delta removed their hub in 2013.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...40963.html

It probably has traffic, just not in the same category as the other ones that you toss Memphis in with because they are true hubs that the majority of their flights connect through so it means a lot of chances for cheaper non-stop flights. Most people would have to have at least one stop to make it to Memphis.

Overall not a big deal though, you can say that about every airport. I was just actually curious who had a hub there because I didn't know of any beside FedEx.

Fine it's not as big as the others but you're not going to have a problem getting competitive pricing and a flight into Memphis International. I also noticed that I forgot to put in United.

It's the same category as about 90% of non-regional airports when it comes to that.

(01-31-2019 03:48 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 03:14 PM)SHOCK_value Wrote:  Geography is hard.

DFW is part of the I-35 corridor, as are fully 1/3rd of AAC MBB programs, with two more within reasonably easy driving distance.

Nashville is central for Memphis and Cincy, and then literally no one else.

Huh? Nashville is smack dab in the middle, and it would truly be neutral. So you're okay with SMU having home court every single year.

Another location that is central east to west would be New Orleans. Talk about a great city to hang out in for a few days.

Does this guy ever read his posts before he hits submit? I mean do you really think that is remotely similar to SMU playing on their home court?

Pony? Help? Please?

My head hurts.

I just wanna point out that UCONN didn't have a home-court advantage when the tourney was in Hartford because the XL Center isn't our home-court.

TripleA has confirmed this.

(01-31-2019 05:15 PM)ShockerFever Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 02:49 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 02:14 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 02:08 PM)cscottl1981 Wrote:  Are there no plans to add Wichita to the list of AAC Tournament host cities? Is that why these dudes are so bitter?

Reading comprehension issues are pretty common on the board.

The tournament is moving to Ft. Worth and I doubt it leaves the metroplex until there is signficant conference realignment. It is technically now located in a central neutral city. As it should be.

We are all aware that ColdFever was talking about a neutral site to make us what he considers legitimate as opposed to having any one team hosting the event. But he always has this underlying message he trolls into the conversation, and more times than not his trolling is pointed in the direction of Memphis for some reason.

He's made mention several times about us having the tournament prior to yesterday and how it was unfair.

We all know he's mad as hell that we could sneak into the tournament in which Wichita basically has no chance and it's killing him. With all his bull**** about Penny is a joke hire, the Lomax thing, WSU chestpuffing last year, Memphis fans are sick of it. So yeah, it's fun to poke a stick at him once in a while.

I can’t even count on both hands all of the hypocrisies laced into this post. Absolutely LOL.

I've got all day. Go for it.

(01-31-2019 05:25 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  I just wanna point out that UCONN didn't have a home-court advantage when the tourney was in Hartford because the XL Center isn't our home-court.

TripleA has confirmed this.

You occupied all the parking garages though

(01-31-2019 05:25 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  I just wanna point out that UCONN didn't have a home-court advantage when the tourney was in Hartford because the XL Center isn't our home-court.

TripleA has confirmed this.

Well we're making sure we play on our home court.

If we had to contend with new sight lines and such, it would be like playing on the road where our shooters can't find the rim with a metal detector.

(01-31-2019 05:40 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 05:25 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  I just wanna point out that UCONN didn't have a home-court advantage when the tourney was in Hartford because the XL Center isn't our home-court.

TripleA has confirmed this.

You occupied all the parking garages though

You cheap *** Sadder knock-off!