Pretty, Pretty Good
Winter and Spring Sports were huge for us this year. New record for points in one athletic year and highest finish we’ve ever had.
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Peas not a fan at all at bringing in Tulan or Tulsa into the league league and look where they are.
I understood SMU to a degree but was not huge on them either and they are 3rd to last.
Losing UCONN makes no difference. They are helped a lot by their WBB but there MBB is supposed to be their big sport and they have disappointed
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Standford has 25 in a row? Damn!!! That is some dominance.
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Helps when you have 36 athletic programs
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I believe all the scholarships in the entire Stanford Athletic Dept are endowed.
Each sport has max scholarships paid via interest from an endowment. Its @ 1/2 billion $ that generated @5% a year.
All or majority of coaching positions are also endowed.
For ex: The football OC is officially the ‘Andrew Luck Director of Offense’.
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I am new here, but I always thought the AAC made a mistake and devalued itself when it took in two small schools that have consistently underperformed like Tulsa and Tulane, especially Tulane. A Tulane doesn’t have the stomach or following to have a decent sports program. It will never be a true Power 6 if the bottom of the league is so horrible. Just my thoughts.
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It was just a case of grabbing that metro area to add the number of potential viewers in the pitch to the network.
In retrospect-a mistake.
Tulane football is on the rise under Fritz. Hopefully more fans show. Stadium is solid. I love the NOLA away games.
I would have no issue of “contracting” Tulsa.
ECU these days get thrown in w Tulsa/Tulane as dead weight but I like them long term.
ECU always had good sized football crowds and been good or average in football for a long time. A bigger school. Great in baseball.
Even horrible they are drawing football fans.
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We finished higher than three Big 12 teams! #movingupintheworld
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Also better than Clemson!
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I fail to see that smu is any better than Tulsa. At least Tulsa has some people that show up to games.
I think smu being added was a mistake !
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I do not like SMU either but they do have more value than Tulsa bringing dallas and trying to use the TCU blueprint for success.
Tulane was the dumbest addition followed by Tulsa.
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Tulsa drew announced crowds of 16-18k last year.
I know a lightly funded scholarship athlete at Tulsa. Her coach said she needed to decide between the sport and her major. The academic department said she needed to decide between the career and the sport. Not many walk-ons at the private universities.
Any chance, the Tulsas and Tulanes of the conference follow UCONN out of the AAC on their own. Maybe they’ll come to the conclusion it’s just too expensive for them to be uncompetitive in the AAC and they will drop down.
Neither of those schools can compete with UH, UC, UCF, Memphis etc. now or probably ever on a consistent basis
There are some dream crushing people out there. Unless she is having problems maintaining both, this never need to be said to any of the youth. If they can handle both, then let them decide to do it.
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At least Tulae is in NOLA which a great roadie (lived there for 18 tears). Their FB is on the rise, a new stadium, decent in baseball, basketball should get better.
Tulsa is an island.
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Are you saying there’s more?
I think you’ll see it more after this next round realignment if it goes down.
Schools that realize that they’re on the outside looking in are probably going to look for more regional partners to defray costs and majorly scale back things like football which for almost school is a huge money pit.
For example, if we get left out again for whatever reason, but Texas and OU bolt, I imagine we ditch the AAC and go to the leftovers because even though it’s just the Texas AAC at that point the regionality will promote some fan interest, lower costs of travel, etc.
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Tulsa also has huge athletic funding issues right now and are struggling mightily. That’s one of the reasons their money sports are struggling as they have no money to update infrastructure or pay coaches. Also the reason why Montgomery got another year as they can’t afford to fire him.
The TV money will help them a little, but they’re dangling by a thread at this point in regards to being able to hang on. They really aren’t a school that fits in the American Athletic Conference (smallest student body in the FBS, small market).