American schools are signing many 2 for 1s with schools. Our schools need home games. It may be in the interest of the conference to schedule another conference game and stay at 11.

(06-22-2019 02:59 PM)chess Wrote:  American schools are signing many 2 for 1s with schools. Our schools need home games. It may be in the interest of the conference to schedule another conference game and stay at 11.

I think Aresco knew they were leaving and it was planned into the new ESPN deal. Its probably why Arescos been playing up the idea of doing away with divisions and having the two highest teams play in the CCG. If we stay at 11, you can do 10 game round robin. Then you would only need to shedule 2 OOC games, e.g. a P5 and a G5 game.

Joke: Why did UConn leave the AAC? They wanted USF to give them 2 for 1s. Zing!

(06-22-2019 03:04 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 02:59 PM)chess Wrote:  American schools are signing many 2 for 1s with schools. Our schools need home games. It may be in the interest of the conference to schedule another conference game and stay at 11.

I think Aresco knew they were leaving and it was planned into the new ESPN deal. Its probably why Arescos been playing up the idea of doing away with divisions and having the two highest teams play in the CCG. If we stay at 11, you can do 10 game round robin. Then you would only need to shedule 2 OOC games, e.g. a P5 and a G5 game.

Joke: Why did UConn leave the AAC? They wanted USF to give them 2 for 1s. Zing!

We can't go to 10 conference games. That would mean Navy would have to cancel one of Army, Navy, or Notre Dame. That **** ain't happening, nor should it

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Just flat out give BYU the exit money from UConn to get them into the AAC. BYU fb only would be an upgrade to get away from the football anchor.

No BYU...plan B

Add army fb only and VCU for other sports.

If no Army....plan C

Look to something like ODU that has the budget and decent fanbase. They won't have the tv appeal now which would hurt.

(06-22-2019 03:06 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 03:04 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 02:59 PM)chess Wrote:  American schools are signing many 2 for 1s with schools. Our schools need home games. It may be in the interest of the conference to schedule another conference game and stay at 11.

I think Aresco knew they were leaving and it was planned into the new ESPN deal. Its probably why Arescos been playing up the idea of doing away with divisions and having the two highest teams play in the CCG. If we stay at 11, you can do 10 game round robin. Then you would only need to shedule 2 OOC games, e.g. a P5 and a G5 game.

Joke: Why did UConn leave the AAC? They wanted USF to give them 2 for 1s. Zing!

We can't go to 10 conference games. That would mean Navy would have to cancel one of Army, Navy, or Notre Dame. That **** ain't happening, nor should it

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Cancel Navy. Problem solved.

(06-22-2019 03:06 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 03:04 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 02:59 PM)chess Wrote:  American schools are signing many 2 for 1s with schools. Our schools need home games. It may be in the interest of the conference to schedule another conference game and stay at 11.

I think Aresco knew they were leaving and it was planned into the new ESPN deal. Its probably why Arescos been playing up the idea of doing away with divisions and having the two highest teams play in the CCG. If we stay at 11, you can do 10 game round robin. Then you would only need to shedule 2 OOC games, e.g. a P5 and a G5 game.

Joke: Why did UConn leave the AAC? They wanted USF to give them 2 for 1s. Zing!

We can't go to 10 conference games. That would mean Navy would have to cancel one of Army, Navy, or Notre Dame. That **** ain't happening, nor should it

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Army, Navy, Air Force, or ND. Navy won't want to do a 9 game AAC schedule either if it means ending the Commander-in-Chiefs cup.

(06-22-2019 03:49 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Cancel Navy. Problem solved.

There may be some merit to this. Say, Navy agrees to phase out her membership for an alliance with the American. Say, Army and Navy agree to play 5 games a year against our members for access to our bowl games. This may give the schools access to bowl games and more freedom to complete the mission of playing games across the country.

Navy would have to request something like this. Navy's winning a football championship in our conference is highly unlikely.

(06-22-2019 03:14 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  Just flat out give BYU the exit money from UConn to get them into the AAC. BYU fb only would be an upgrade to get away from the football anchor.

No BYU...plan B

Add army fb only and VCU for other sports.

If no Army....plan C

Look to something like ODU that has the budget and decent fanbase. They won't have the tv appeal now which would hurt.

I like adding Army and VCU the best out of those options. This is comparable to adding Navy and Wichita State. It makes sense. The only complication might be figuring out what to do with the Army-Navy game since it is currently played AFTER the American championship game.

(06-22-2019 03:57 PM)Golden Jedi Knight Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 03:14 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  Just flat out give BYU the exit money from UConn to get them into the AAC. BYU fb only would be an upgrade to get away from the football anchor.

No BYU...plan B

Add army fb only and VCU for other sports.

If no Army....plan C

Look to something like ODU that has the budget and decent fanbase. They won't have the tv appeal now which would hurt.

I like adding Army and VCU the best out of those options. This is comparable to adding Navy and Wichita State. It makes sense. The only complication might be figuring out what to do with the Army-Navy game since it is currently played AFTER the American championship game.

I like this. VCU is a school like UCF and USF. ECU fits well with each of these schools.

UCONN's not having any problems with football scheduling. Probably a big reason why we're leaving.

(06-22-2019 03:54 PM)chess Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 03:49 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Cancel Navy. Problem solved.

There may be some merit to this. Say, Navy agrees to phase out her membership for an alliance with the American. Say, Army and Navy agree to play 5 games a year against our members for access to our bowl games. This may give the schools access to bowl games and more freedom to complete the mission of playing games across the country.

Navy would have to request something like this. Navy's winning a football championship in our conference is highly unlikely.

Each of the then 10 remaining AAC schools playing 1 game each year vs Army or Navy would work. It could be on a 4 year rotation of Army Home, Army Away, Navy Home, Navy Away.

I like it, so it won't happen.

(06-22-2019 03:58 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  UCONN's not having any problems with football scheduling. Probably a big reason why we're leaving.

Husky, a number of AAC programs have talked about moving away from scheduling FCS teams. Do you feel they should make an exception for UConn in the future, given our shared past history?

(06-22-2019 03:58 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  UCONN's not having any problems with football scheduling. Probably a big reason why we're leaving.

Really? New Mexico State, Liberty, Idaho, BYU, and Massachusetts don't share your optimism.

(06-22-2019 04:00 PM)chess Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 03:58 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  UCONN's not having any problems with football scheduling. Probably a big reason why we're leaving.

Really? New Mexico State, Liberty, Idaho, BYU, and Massachusetts don't share your optimism.

If that was a conference, UConn could legitimately break into the top half every few years.

(06-22-2019 03:58 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  UCONN's not having any problems with football scheduling. Probably a big reason why we're leaving.

Miraculously start winning 9 or 10 games per year as an independent and get back to us on your scheduling difficulties.

(06-22-2019 03:58 PM)chess Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 03:57 PM)Golden Jedi Knight Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 03:14 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  Just flat out give BYU the exit money from UConn to get them into the AAC. BYU fb only would be an upgrade to get away from the football anchor.

No BYU...plan B

Add army fb only and VCU for other sports.

If no Army....plan C

Look to something like ODU that has the budget and decent fanbase. They won't have the tv appeal now which would hurt.

I like adding Army and VCU the best out of those options. This is comparable to adding Navy and Wichita State. It makes sense. The only complication might be figuring out what to do with the Army-Navy game since it is currently played AFTER the American championship game.

I like this. VCU is a school like UCF and USF. ECU fits well with each of these schools.

Army/VCU is my top pick... and I bet of a lot of folks... question is, can we get them to join? Their football is improving... BYU/VCU might be a bit stronger, but BYU won't join. Just ain't happening. And I don't see an obvious allsports candidate ready to join. If we go that route, you can be sure Army and BYU gave us a firm no...

I would like to see Liberty brought in for all sports. Put them in the AAC and I think they would thrive --- they already have great facilities, a huge endowment, and solid donors and fan base. BYU lite

So Memphis fans want Liberty, UAB and USM

Aiming high

No football remaining for UCONN

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...ember/amp/

Would BYU come if we gave them UCONN's exit fee ($10M)?