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RE: AAC/MWC Merger: The Real Advantage
(05-27-2015 08:39 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: (05-27-2015 08:37 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (05-26-2015 03:29 PM)YNot Wrote: (05-26-2015 02:01 PM)firmbizzle Wrote: (05-26-2015 01:38 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: So you are saying keep the AAC in tact and add the best of from the list above? I'd be fine with that too. Tulane and Tulsa would be happy haha.
Anymore than 18 is too much.
IMO, a great result would be to add Army (football only), BYU, Boise, Air Force, SDSU, and Fresno.
The AAC would have:
- ALL the best TV ratings getters (Army, Navy, Air Force, Boise St., UConn, BYU, UCF, Houston, Cincinnati, ECU, USF, and Fresno)
- ALL the best in attendance (BYU, ECU, UCF, Army, Fresno, Boise, Memphis, Navy, SDSU, USF)
- excellent football competition (Boise, UCF, Cincinnati, BYU, ECU, Houston, Fresno, Memphis, Navy)
- excellent potential markets if the New American is a success - two teams in each of California, Texas, and Florida, plus teams in or near 70% of the top-10 Nielsen TV markets - NYC, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Bay Area, DC, and Houston, plus other top-60 markets Tampa, Denver, Orlando, Baltimore, San Diego, Hartford, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans, Fresno, and Tulsa.
- great basketball (UConn, Memphis, Cincinnati, Temple, SMU, Tulsa, Houston, SDSU, BYU)
- synergies of a nationwide conference
The MWC would be left with:
Colorado St.
Utah St.
Nevada
Wyoming
UNLV
New Mexico
SJSU
Hawaii
That's still a decent basketball conference. Football would still have a chance for an undefeated team to finish as the highest-rated G5 champion
But the New American would hands down be a quality conference in both football and basketball and would take the Access bid most years and would have at least legitimate shot at the CFP - even more so when the CFP grows to 8 teams in the 2020's.
I like your spirit YNOT, you are the 1 BYU fan who wants BYU in the AAC. Question, when Bronco said that BYU needs to be in a conference in 3 years and Tom Holmone backed that assessment up, do you think that makes it more likely that BYU will join the AAC in a few years barring a P5 invite? Cheers!
And if BYU joined the AAC, would that be enough to pull Boise, and co? I bet it would. Boise would not get a sweetheart deal so who knows if they would want to come or not. But I can see them wanting in if BYU is in the mix...esp if the SDSU's, AF's, and Col St are vocal about joining BYU.
F Boise. Turn them into Marshall west.
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