(02-19-2017 09:45 AM)rosewater Wrote: It is obvious that all the members want to play football, but there is a lesser degree of members that want to compete in basketball. I would like the AAC to become a football only conference and allow the other members(Cincy, UConn, Memphis, Temple, SMu} to seek their fortunes in the Big East, Atlantic 10 or other basketball related conference. Thoughts
1) 100% of members want to compete in basketball
tulane opened up its wallet and hired and nba coach and upgraded facilities
houston spent 100mil on facility upgrades
usf hired kentuckys top assistant and then fired him in 2.1 years because he wasn't producing
tulsa made the tourney just last year, and stole a p5 coach
ucf is competing extremely well
ecu is arguably the only team in the AAC that isnt trying to be elite in basketball keeping lebo but technically on paper he is the best coach they have ever had, so i can see why they are struggling to fire him
2) secondly we are the 7th best league in the nation out of 32....you are suggesting we dismantle the AAC basketball a pretty decent bball league so teams can go to a technically worse a-10?? (according to rpi and bpi)
why?
there are literally elite bball teams that would gve to be in our league (wichita,umass, vcu) but you want to destroy it?
i think its best for cincy fans to stop looking for a way out, its depressing to you guys.. you are stuck here