(10-17-2023 01:22 PM)msu35 Wrote:  

(10-17-2023 01:18 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(10-14-2023 09:06 AM)AlwaysSunny Wrote:  No idea why Charlotte keeps trying the academics smack.

most people on the board don't live in North Carolina to realize that UNCC and App St have nearly the same undergraduate profile. In fact, if you take out Engineering, which App doesn't have a school, the average UNCC student is much less qualified than the average App student.

Most people just see that UNCC offers some PhDs, and App does not and make assumptions off that.

Besides App is better at basketball right now and football is still worlds apart, so what else is UNCC supposed to talk smack about?

Does it matter? Charlotte is in the AAC and it's just the beginning of good things for their programs. If things are so great for you, why do you feel the need to come to another conference's board to talk down on their programs? Comes across as both incredibly petty and insecure.

clt says the appy forgot our architecture school, largest Computing & Informatics school in NC, etc.

Sorry they have followed us here like stink bugs

(10-14-2023 02:19 PM)msu35 Wrote:  

(10-14-2023 02:03 PM)rileylives Wrote:  So can you ask for numbers and then you continue to berate even after I provided them, the point was the original claim a few posts ago said they took the top six spending budgets, and again that is not the case.

Berate you? Not at all. If that's your standard you have incredibly thin skin as that was not my intention. Looking at the list more closely, yes, Marshall does have a slightly larger budget than UTSA and FAU. It's a Saturday and I have a half-dozen distractions today, so I apologize for the oversight.

I appreciate you debunking the claim that the conference invited the programs with the largest budgets which would be categorically false. Perhaps Marshall was considered and passed over due to a smaller DMA compared to San Antonio and Miami in spite of having a slightly larger budget.

This is something I can relate to as a Memphis fan. It seems that our modest market size works to our disadvantage.

The AAC did invite most of the larger budgets from the old C-USA 3.0. What is being lost in this discussion is the other budgets that are being overlooked. Within the athletic budgets are budgets for coaching salaries and staffs, and such. While I don't have the latest numbers now, at the time I believe most if not all of the C-USA-6 were at or among the top of the conference. A few were even within the staff salaries of some AAC programs. I think this is the type of stuff Aresco is talking about when he says the AAC was focused on those willing to invest, build, and grow at a level the AAC is wanting from new members.