(06-02-2021 10:31 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(06-02-2021 02:02 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  AAC West:
BYU
Boise State
Air Force/Gonzaga
Colorado State
UNR
San Diego State
UNR

AAC Central:
Houston
SMU
Tulsa
Tulane
Navy/Wichita State
Memphis
UTSA

AAC East:
UCF
USF
ECU
Temple
Cincinnati
ODU
Army/VCU

Air Force, Army and Navy are football only. You get 21 football schools, but then you got the best of the rest in both money sports as well which you could get an AAC Network going which could sell better cross country than the Longhorn Network, ACC, SEC, and the Big 10

I like the concept of going big, which would require that ESPN step up to the plate and designate the AAC an AQ conference.

About the bolded part, are you saying (a) in order for the AAC to 'go big' that way, with 21 members, it would first have to get assurances from ESPN that doing so would make it an AQ conference in ESPN's eyes, or (b) if the AAC "goes big" this way, it would be valuable enough that ESPN would be pretty much compelled to recognize this expanded AAC as a power conference?