(10-22-2019 06:43 AM)toddjnsn Wrote:  

Quote:It sounds like the AAC will have to get off the clock and select someone.

I agree. The NCAA is not going to let the AAC sit on 11 team lineup indefinitely, at all.

At all just happened. Indefinitely is now the question.

Quote:The MAC one year had a 6 / 7 uneven division lineup.

8 years. Temple was the 13th from 2007-11, UMass was the 13th from 2011-15.

Quote:IMO, that'd be better than a 1-division lineup for football if one's going to sit on it. But I dunno how 5 / 6 division lineup would hold up for the NCAA. UConn left, so the AAC will need to bring someone else in.

The NCAA *just* approved the 11-school no-divisions CCG for the AAC.

Quote:In reference to what someone else said -- no, I don't think it's "damaging" to add someone, as long as they're reasonably respectable. Losing UConn in basketball is the big 'damaging' part... and just about anyone except UMass would be an equal replacement on the football front. Just get a team with an average mid-major crowd with a decent record usually -- or one with a big mid-major crowd regardless of how swell they are, and you'll be seen as just the same.

If the add is lower-value than the average value of the conference, it's damaging to the conference. Usually conferences have pressures to backfill to meet a number, so they do it anyway. The AAC doesn't have to for at least a year or two.

Quote:Don't add someone in, and it'll only hurt the conference, IMO.

How? Why? If the NCAA lets them stay at 11 football schools, how does that hurt the AAC?