(05-22-2017 06:44 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(05-22-2017 04:27 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(05-22-2017 03:59 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  

(05-22-2017 03:42 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(05-22-2017 03:27 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  To be fair, thats part of what is driving this P6 marketing. If there ever is a split, the AAC wants to improve its perception to the point that the conference might get included in any D4 super division.

Oh, I completely applaud the idea and concept. It's just that you guys are probably trying to wish something impossible into existence. I label it no different than Arkansas State applying to join the Big 12 a year ago. Nothing to lose, so why not try?

The difference between the AAC and the Sun Belt is that some of the bottom teams that struggle to stay afloat financially reside within the Sun Belt, and we can control whether or not they stay FBS. (Well I guess they could go Indy, but I doubt it)

You guys could all attract 70K fans to every home game, and routinely beat the Power conference schools every year and they'd probably still choose to just grab the few of you they wanted rather than taking the entire conference.

Big difference from Arkansas State applying for Big 12 membership with zero shot. The AAC has multiple schools that have been in a power conference in the past. Cincinnati, uconn, Houston, SMU, and USF. We have two teams that have won major bowls in the last 5 years. We have a team that has won both men's and women's basketball titles. This label is about separation and getting the media used to a different perception.

I think it is working as far as perception goes.

The AAC has always been a league of the left behinds.

It's not that I think you have zero shot, I just believe you have zero shot as an entire league. On their own, sure Houston, UCF, Cincy, maybe Memphis could pull it off. The entire league on the other hand? Not for a separate division. It's not like the Power schools are lining up to play you guys either.

I don't see anything wrong with the concept, I just take issue with Baruna's belief that the Sun Belt needs or cares what the AAC does. Maybe individual schools do, but I can assure you ULM athletics probably doesn't even know the AAC is trying to label itself as a P6.

I know you mean well by posting somewhat nonsense of the AAC programs in this thread but a level headed conversation nonetheless.

The AAC isn't a league of left behinds is more like a league of programs been blocked by those who are afraid of loosing their mojo... Hehe

It might be a mixture of both. Houston is blocked for entirely ridiculous reasons. But programs like UConn and Cincy were considered P5 very recently, and were the ones left without a chair when the music suddenly stopped.

Doesn't mean I think it was the right call leaving them behind, it is what it is.

Who the heck cares what Benson said or did not say. It's not like he doesn't have an ulterior motive, does he (as any person affiliated with any organization in the NCAA has ulterior motives).

I don't put much stock in anything Benson has to say. He is the commissioner that presided over the death of the WAC, which had a long history as one of the strongest second-tier conferences. He proved to be more inept than Britton Banowsky and Bob Bowlsby - and that's saying something!

Can someone provide another link? Soundcloud is not working. Also, Aresco negotiated NYD bowl access. He knows his place.

Expected G4 response

The remaining G4 would collapse, if the American expanded and became a P6 Conference .

Eastern Division
Connecticut
Army/Dayton
Temple
Navy/Virginia Commonwealth
Cincinnati
Memphis
East Carolina
Central Florida
South Florida

Western Division
Tulane
Tulsa
Southern Methodist
Houston
New Mexico
Air Force/Wichita State
Brigham Young
Boise State
San Diego State