(06-04-2021 03:43 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  It basically comes down to this. AAC fans/ADs are unwilling to compromise. They expect everyone else to accommodate them.

Look at the crazy ass suggestions that a school drop women's volleyball. Are you really going to turn down a top football program because your don't want your women's volleyball teams to have to fly to Boise, Idaho?

You get right down to it, that is the entire sticking point. Who looks ridiculously inflexible when you look at the details? The money of the travel can even be offset by a small contribution from ESPN who want Boise State football in the American anyway.

Not really. I suspect there are any number of compromises that the AAC would probably be willing to make for BYU---Boise too. But just like the the party receiving the offer---the compromises have to make sense for the AAC as well.

Sure, I'd prefer a "football only" Boise deal---but I could live with an all sports deal. I suspect it's Boise demanding the AAC also add a whole western cluster of teams. Frankly, I'm just not sure its worth adding all that travel when all you really want is to just add one reasonably valuable team to get to 12. I think that kind of "compromise" would be a tough sell for the current western division AAC members and thats probably why it hasnt happened. Frankly---its also why I think we will be holding at 11 for a while. There is just a few teams that add value and Im not sold on the idea that adding 3 to get just one of the teams on the "value added" list makes sense. If two of the three are Boise and BYU---I'd be all for it. Im a lot more "meh" about the 3-team expansion as it currently is being reported. Heck---to me---even Boise, SDSU, and Air Force is better (assuming AF is football only).