(11-24-2022 11:40 PM)CoachWillRob Wrote:  These numbers we're predicting for the future will change as the Sun Belt surpasses the new AAC with putting out a better and stronger brand of football with it's football 1st cultural programs. If these new AAC teams can't beat P5 competition or can't go above .500 vs peer G5 competition, it won't matter who is 1st or 2nd in the AAC, it will be clear how bad AAC football is and all viewership #s will shift to the other G5 conferences.

Spot on. In stock market parlance the SBC is a “buy”…the AAC is a sell.

Football will be the lead indicator of the SBC’s rise in viewership (and actual game attendance), however, in Baseball and men’s Soccer, the SBC is already miles ahead of the AAC. Other Olympic sports, including softball, have an edge on the AAC. Men’s basketball will be a wash once Cincy and Houston depart. If ODU, JMU and GAST return to prominence (each blessed with state-of-the-art facilities to recruit to), the SBC East could be a darling for the media and polls.

(11-25-2022 10:26 AM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(11-24-2022 11:40 PM)CoachWillRob Wrote:  These numbers we're predicting for the future will change as the Sun Belt surpasses the new AAC with putting out a better and stronger brand of football with it's football 1st cultural programs. If these new AAC teams can't beat P5 competition or can't go above .500 vs peer G5 competition, it won't matter who is 1st or 2nd in the AAC, it will be clear how bad AAC football is and all viewership #s will shift to the other G5 conferences.

Spot on. In stock market parlance the SBC is a “buy”…the AAC is a sell.

Football will be the lead indicator of the SBC’s rise in viewership (and actual game attendance), however, in Baseball and men’s Soccer, the SBC is already miles ahead of the AAC. Other Olympic sports, including softball, have an edge on the AAC. Men’s basketball will be a wash once Cincy and Houston depart. If ODU, JMU and GAST return to prominence (each blessed with state-of-the-art facilities to recruit to), the SBC East could be a darling for the media and polls.

Let's bot weaken our overall solid argument I favor of the Sun Belt by boasting about an area in which we are decidedly weaker.

The AAC still is likely to be a multi bid (2-3 bids) league year-in, year-out.

Memphis: Absolutely a Power 5 program. Multiple Final Fours. Buzzer beater away from the 2008 national title.

Temple: Solid history and surrounded by high school hoops prospects galore.

SMU: Moneybags program that can go Top 20 in no time flat.

Wichita State: Final Four once in past ten years. Number one seed another year.

UNT: Multiple C-USA titles.

UAB: Solid history.

Etc.

Basketball is the AAC's strong spot.

Yeah basketball is where I'd very happily plop JMU and ODU down in the AAC. Football though I'll take the SBC all day long from a JMU perspective. Improve SBC basketball and it'll be the best of both worlds even if it doesn't pass the AAC.

Every P5 excels in the big two, football and men’s basketball. The AAC is the only G5 that does well at both, at the moment. You have to take care of football, which pays the bills. Check. Basketball is next. We have to become a two-bid (minimum) league.

(11-25-2022 07:55 PM)Dukes94 Wrote:  Every P5 excels in the big two, football and men’s basketball. The AAC is the only G5 that does well at both, at the moment. You have to take care of football, which pays the bills. Check. Basketball is next. We have to become a two-bid (minimum) league.

Easier said than done.

I'm fine with just being really good in Football. As someone who just left CUSA, a conference not bad by any means at basketball, seeing how hard it is to get two bids, I don't know if it's worth the resources.

I like what we're building. We have good football, good baseball and good soccer. It would take resources away from what we're building.

(11-25-2022 07:47 PM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  

(11-25-2022 10:26 AM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(11-24-2022 11:40 PM)CoachWillRob Wrote:  These numbers we're predicting for the future will change as the Sun Belt surpasses the new AAC with putting out a better and stronger brand of football with it's football 1st cultural programs. If these new AAC teams can't beat P5 competition or can't go above .500 vs peer G5 competition, it won't matter who is 1st or 2nd in the AAC, it will be clear how bad AAC football is and all viewership #s will shift to the other G5 conferences.

Spot on. In stock market parlance the SBC is a “buy”…the AAC is a sell.

Football will be the lead indicator of the SBC’s rise in viewership (and actual game attendance), however, in Baseball and men’s Soccer, the SBC is already miles ahead of the AAC. Other Olympic sports, including softball, have an edge on the AAC. Men’s basketball will be a wash once Cincy and Houston depart. If ODU, JMU and GAST return to prominence (each blessed with state-of-the-art facilities to recruit to), the SBC East could be a darling for the media and polls.

Let's bot weaken our overall solid argument I favor of the Sun Belt by boasting about an area in which we are decidedly weaker.

The AAC still is likely to be a multi bid (2-3 bids) league year-in, year-out.

Memphis: Absolutely a Power 5 program. Multiple Final Fours. Buzzer beater away from the 2008 national title.

Temple: Solid history and surrounded by high school hoops prospects galore.

SMU: Moneybags program that can go Top 20 in no time flat.

Wichita State: Final Four once in past ten years. Number one seed another year.

UNT: Multiple C-USA titles.

UAB: Solid history.

Etc.

Basketball is the AAC's strong spot.

Memphis yes, remains a top gun in AAC MBB, but P5 quality? Please. The rest of the AAC teams you’re so high on have been no better than 50-50 in making the NCAAT in recent years, and with the loss of the top AAC basketball teams the AAC’s rpi is going to take a hit, and perhaps a big hit, impacting the leagues post-season prospects. When you factor in MBB programs like UTSA, Rice, Charlotte and ECU…well, it is what it is. It’s average D1 MBB.

Once the top dawgs are gone, I see the AAC as a reliable 2 bid MBB league, with anything more as bubble prospects on a year-to-year basis.

The SBC definitely has a heavy lift to improve its MBB profile, and become a regular 2 big league. That’s not news, nor is it news that the AAC presently has the upper-hand in the race to secure multiple NCAAT MBB bids. The point is what is the SBC going to do about MBB moving forward? The SBC’s ceiling would only appear to be self-limited.

The SBC in football 8 years ago looked like heavy lift.

So now that championship weekend is over and there is a post mortem analysis, anyone think Disney is gonna be in a rush to put this game on ABC in the future?

(12-06-2022 09:01 PM)otown Wrote:  So now that championship weekend is over and there is a post mortem analysis, anyone think Disney is gonna be in a rush to put this game on ABC in the future?

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