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RE: Army, Louisiana, Buffalo, ASU, NDSU, & the other schools that the AAC should c...
(10-13-2021 11:14 AM)DawgNBama Wrote: (10-11-2021 09:44 AM)All4One Wrote: (10-11-2021 09:15 AM)BKTopper Wrote: (10-11-2021 09:09 AM)HoustonCajun Wrote: (10-08-2021 10:31 PM)e-bethMSU Wrote: I don't think it should be just 2 additions - or that the AAC ought to expand to 14 schools either. Instead I believe that the AAC should add 4 (for now) - get to 12 in football (with Navy) and 12 in Olympic sports (with Wichita State). Eventually, I expect Memphis to get called up - and when that happens, I think you guys should add either Appy State, Coastal Carolina or Louisiana to replace us.
My picks would be: UAB (of course) Marshall (about time), Toledo and La-Tech (or Louisiana).
I'd put Navy in the east and let them choose their cross-over opponents (so they can play in Texas if they want to). But Rice isn't a good strategic move long term, so there is only going to be one Texas school for them to schedule anyway. They can play at SMU every year if Texas is such an important recruiting tool. I'm sure MSU wouldn't mind always playing host. If they don't like it - let them leave. It makes no sense for UAB to play all the time in the east when they're a southern school a few hours drive from 3 conference mates.
The isolation of USF is unavoidable and strategically, they shouldn't even want us to elevate another Florida school that they would then have to recruit against.
W: Tulsa, SMU, La-Tech or Louisiana, Tulane, Memphis, UAB
E: Temple, Toledo, Navy, Marshall, ECU, USF
IMO, the AAC should take the best of the SBC and CUSA and expand to 16 and make it the top G5 conference. In doing so, the AAC moves to 4 Locational Pods with natural geographic rivalries:
1. Tulsa, SMU, Memphis, UAB
2. Louisiana, UTSA, Rice, Tulane
3. Temple, Navy, ECU, Marshall
4. USF, FAU, App State, Coastal/Liberty
The AAC adds a combination of markets in San Antonio, Birmingham, Miami area and recaptures Houston with solid programs in Louisiana, App State, Marshall and either Coastal or Liberty.
This would then force the SBC and CUSA to combine into a single conference - call it CUSA, who could also have 4 pods:
1. Ark State, ULM, W. KY, MTSU
2. N. Texas, Texas State, LA Tech, S. Miss
3. ODU, Charlotte, GA State, Coastal/Liberty
4. FIU, Troy, S. Alabama, GA Southern
UTEP and NMSU are added to the MWC where they belong!
There are now 4 G5 conferences - AAC, MWC, MAC, CUSA
I agree. Why would the AAC add a school like Louisiana-Lafayette who can't generate enough revenue to offset their expenditures? Besides, they don't need another Louisiana school when they have Tulane.
You are not from the South, therefore you really know nothing about Louisiana or Tulane, otherwise you would not have made that comment. Tulane is a very elite private school in New Orleans. I would put Tulane's a academics on par with Duke or Stanford. Because of this, Tulane often resorts to recruiting students from New England or other northern Atlantic states. Once the students graduate, they often leave New Orleans to go back home.
Not the same with the University of Louisiana, whose students tend to stay near the Lafayette, Louisiana area.
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Actually, I am from the South, and I'm very well aware of UL-Lafayette and Tulane. I have been to both schools' campuses and am very well aware of Tulane's academics. I never questioned Tulane's academics. They have one of the Top 4 endowments among all Gang of 5 schools . Also, if you don't like the data from the Knight Commission, then just say so. No one is moving goalposts. The data is either wrong, or it's correct. My numbers came straight from the Knight Commission. I even acknowledged that it could be out of date. If you have updated data, then why not provide the source?
(This post was last modified: 10-13-2021 01:05 PM by All4One.)
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