I’m not hearing anything from Navy fans about this. Even our favorite Navy poster has been vague on this subject—and he’s extremely PRO AAC.
Does Navy want to stay in the AAC or go independent now?

(09-08-2021 07:28 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I’m not hearing anything from Navy fans about this. Even our favorite Navy poster has been vague on this subject—and he’s extremely PRO AAC.
Does Navy want to stay in the AAC or go independent now?

Navy has another option if they want it.

(09-08-2021 07:30 PM)Statefan Wrote:  

(09-08-2021 07:28 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I’m not hearing anything from Navy fans about this. Even our favorite Navy poster has been vague on this subject—and he’s extremely PRO AAC.
Does Navy want to stay in the AAC or go independent now?

Navy has another option if they want it.

What’s their other option?

Would love to have Navy in the big 14, along with Air Force

(09-08-2021 07:34 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(09-08-2021 07:30 PM)Statefan Wrote:  

(09-08-2021 07:28 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I’m not hearing anything from Navy fans about this. Even our favorite Navy poster has been vague on this subject—and he’s extremely PRO AAC.
Does Navy want to stay in the AAC or go independent now?

Navy has another option if they want it.

What’s their other option?

Stay and sing about it?

Only way Navy leaves is if they don’t like the replacements.

Which is very unlikely to happen, because if Navy doesn’t like you, you’re not going to be one of the replacements, in the first place.

I think they stay if Rice is invited. They can maintain at least one game in Texas every year.

I don’t see this really changing much for Navy, especially if Rice is a replacement.

Navy played in the Oyster Bowl at Foreman Field quite a bit. I wonder if they’d like Old Dominion in the East.

(09-08-2021 07:28 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I’m not hearing anything from Navy fans about this. Even our favorite Navy poster has been vague on this subject—and he’s extremely PRO AAC.
Does Navy want to stay in the AAC or go independent now?

If our AD's words have any merit, then Navy will stay. Despite the losses, the AAC still has members worth playing.

It’s interesting since it was AQ that drove Navy to finally join a conference. When that came off the table, Navy still stood by its membership. AFA wasn’t nearly as “in” with the Big East/AAC, and backed away from the talks to join.

If the CFP formalizes an at-large spot for a non-major conference champion, I think the G5 scrambles to form that best version of their respective selves to get that spot. And, yeah, that may mean Navy and AFA reconsider their homes.

Honestly, it’s AFA I’m more curious about. Now that it’s certain BYU won’t be coming back through the MWC door, where does that leave the MWC? Would there be interest in attempting to pull SMU their way? If the MWC could pull that off? Navy might bolt. If the MWC can’t get a bigger eastern school out of this or is itself raided by the AAC? AFA’s out, I suspect.

(09-08-2021 10:40 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Only way Navy leaves is if they don’t like the replacements.

Which is very unlikely to happen, because if Navy doesn’t like you, you’re not going to be one of the replacements, in the first place.

I think you nailed it, NG... Navy will have a big say in this.

I think Navy should go independent and reach a scheduling agreement with the AAC similar to Notre Dame with the ACC. All the service academies should do the same. Army, Navy and Air Force should be playing national schedules. Those programs are a recruiting tool for the Armed Forces. Locking them into a conference is a disservice to College Football.

I suspect Navy is going to have an outsized say on who gets added because the AAC really can't afford to lose them.

What is Navy's ideal conference?

12 teams:

Old Dominion
Hawai'i
San Diego State
Florida (rivalry game in Jacksonville)
Washington
South Alabama
TCU
Southern Miss
Texas A&M
Air Force
Army
Navy

I feel like it depends on how the AAC reloads, and where the schools are located. I don't know how happy Navy and Temple will be if they're left on an island in the mid atlantic, but their schedules now are still overall stronger than they were as an independent.

(09-09-2021 08:53 AM)TDenverFan Wrote:  I feel like it depends on how the AAC reloads, and where the schools are located. I don't know how happy Navy and Temple will be if they're left on an island in the mid atlantic, but their schedules now are still overall stronger than they were as an independent.

Navy I could see maybe doing it, Temple is not paying the 10 million buyout to go anywhere else. They don't have the BE to go to like UCONN did. Temple may not love their options or the island they are stuck on, but they are stuck there.

(09-09-2021 08:53 AM)TDenverFan Wrote:  I feel like it depends on how the AAC reloads, and where the schools are located. I don't know how happy Navy and Temple will be if they're left on an island in the mid atlantic, but their schedules now are still overall stronger than they were as an independent.

The issue is not schedules.

Temple could get one of the best indy schedules of anyone. They currently have future home games against Oklahoma, Miami, Rutgers, Penn State, Duke, and Boston College. In the last 5 full seasons they have hosted Maryland, Georgia Tech, Army, Penn State, and Notre Dame.

Navy would get just as good a schedule as BYU. Maybe better, because there's other Eastern indies and they have 3 permanent rivals (Army, Air Force, Notre Dame)

(09-08-2021 07:34 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(09-08-2021 07:30 PM)Statefan Wrote:  

(09-08-2021 07:28 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I’m not hearing anything from Navy fans about this. Even our favorite Navy poster has been vague on this subject—and he’s extremely PRO AAC.
Does Navy want to stay in the AAC or go independent now?

Navy has another option if they want it.

What’s their other option?

I heard they have a triple option…

Navy will stay if one of the following three schools comes into the conference:

1. Rice
2. Army
3. Air Force

And I think Rice will join the AAC and the other two will not.

(09-09-2021 08:44 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  I think Navy should go independent and reach a scheduling agreement with the AAC similar to Notre Dame with the ACC. All the service academies should do the same. Army, Navy and Air Force should be playing national schedules. Those programs are a recruiting tool for the Armed Forces. Locking them into a conference is a disservice to College Football.

Wouldn't blame Navy if they went independent.