Boise State? Florida International? Army? Air Force? Colorado State?
So, are we hoping the NCAA denies the AAC request to hold a championship with a 11 team conference?
Confessions of an ACC member in that recent article’s comment section.
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“The AAC should compete in Division II!”
Disagree
Its had 2 or 3 teams in the top 25 all year and they lose Conn dead weight after this season.I’m an ACC guy and take away Clemson, AAC is probably better. Hurts me to say it.
Get the best of the MWC and BYU to join & they will be rolling.
Not a reach. MWC may not get the $ on their next TV deal.
I think you could say the same for the PAC12 and Big 12.
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Were actually ahead of the PAC 12 with UConn this year, and even with the ACC. Take out UConn and we’re closer to the Big 12.
Top to bottom we’re much stronger than we’ve ever been and that’s with UCF and UH in down years.
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It depends what metric you use. I believe Sagarin has the XII as the best conference right now.
What an idiot lol
That said its not like the AAC is being forced to do something the XII isn’t. The rule is currently that you can play a CCG with less than 12 teams if you play everyone in your conference. We currently only play a 8 game schedule an miss out on 2 teams obviously (after UConn leaves).
It all depends on the BIG imo. If they see it as advantageous to them in the future, they could vote to allow it.
If we don’t, legit possibilities include:
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Air Force (possibly wants out of MWC due to travel, but travel in the AAC would be just as bad)
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BYU (doubtful)
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Boise State (doubtful)
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One of the Texas teams from the CUSA/Sun Belt
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Independent teams (Army/Liberty/NMSU - other than Army, its a hard pass)
To be honest besides Boise/BYU I am not very interested in the available G5 teams. I assume thats how the XII feels about the AAC teams lol
Marketing us as P6 might be working.
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Hmmmm…Calhoun may have talking to Coach Ken in Annapolis after their game and realized the sweet deal Navy is getting. Travel is much better and easier in the AAC as they are only looking to put their football team in the conference. You only have to fly into big cities and those are a lot of places that Air Force would love to get into and recruit.
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What is the football only share for the new AAC TV deal?
It should be a substantial raise vs the new MWC TV deal.
Navy as an AAC game, leaves them 4 spots to fit Army and their long time regional MWC rivals -Colorado State & Wyoming, (if that is the way the want to go) & someone else.
Surprisingly, Air Force Lacrosse plays in the SoCon.
Seems like crazy amount of travel for a growing sports that is only profitable for a small % of programs (The ACC, handful of others in the Big 10, Univ of Denver, John Hopkins, handful of Ivy League Schools)
See associate members.
AirForce, Bellarmine, High Point, Jacksonville, Richmond = Lax only.
As an aside: SoCon was STACKED @100 years ago…
" The conference was formed on February 25, 1921 in [Atlanta]… Southern Conference charter members were Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Washington & Lee. In 1922, six more universities – Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt joined the conference. The first year of competition for the conference was in 1922"
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UGone senior day v ECU today.
They have 8 RJrs saying their goodbyes with another season of eligibility.
2 of them are starters on the OLine. (DeGeorge, Leone)
(They also lose 5th year senior Matt Peart - The only OL bright spot who is going to the NFL combine)
As bad as UGone has been…things could actually worse with few Redshirt Seniors next year & an awful OL losing what little talent it had.
A relief UGone FB is no longer the AAC’s problem soon.