clt say this hurts the acc
I talked with someone in the AD yesterday, was told that Hill had already instructed everyone to prepare and be in position for a shift when the opportunity was right. I was given a PC answer but definitely sounded as though preparations for upcoming realignments (not necessarily AAC addition currently circulating) is being prepped for. Good to hear Mike is pushing to be prepared for something.
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Iâd be worried if he wasnât preparing for that eventuality. Weâre never going to get a straight answer from the AD because that wouldnât be in the Uâs best interests.
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I donât think this signifies anything being anywhere near âfor sureâ now or in the next few years. I think this a P5 administrator running a D1 Athletics Department the way it should be run, which is a new thing in Charlotte.
Mike Aresco says AAC âwill move w/deliberate speed & probably will have pretty good idea of our direction by mid-July. We have several options: stay at 11, add an all-sport member or add a football and/or basketball member. We are strong in all sports & donât need to do anythingâ
Source: https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1144388122236588032?s=19
Well, of course, they are preparing for any opportunity that comes. Even if they werenât they wouldnât actually tell you they werenât.
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bustingbrackets.com: AAC Basketball: What does league do in wake of UConnâs exit?.
https://bustingbrackets.com/2019/06/27/aac-basketball-league-wake-uconns-exit/2/
I trust our efforts to work behind the scenes, and not embarrass the school, but if we ever are going to be in the conversation it has to come out sometime. I hope we deftly maneuver to release suitable information as necessary to keep us in the conversation (eg expansion plans).
I would understand them staying at 11, and I would understand them grabbing an all sports member, but becoming a conference of odds and ends in the two major sports makes no sense to me. Not that Navy football, Wichita State basketball, Army football and VCU basketball donât each bring value, but you really do end up with a Frankenstein conference. Long term I donât think that works out well for anyone.
I was surprised they went that way with Navy/Wichita after the schism it caused in the old Big East. I highly doubt they continue further down that path again.
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I would understand them staying at 11, and I would understand them grabbing an all sports member.
[/quote] Yikes! Remind me to keep my all sports member out of reach.
Reminded today that UC San Diego making transition from D-II to D-I. So the Tritons join Bellarmine, Cal Baptist, Dixie State, Merrimack, and North Alabama as the newest members of the Big Boys Club!
I would love to be a fly on the wall with renegotiation of TV deal and those discussions. I just picture the AAC saying ok if we sit at 11 we all make X, if we add school Y we all make X and going through a variety of the school options - basically picking the top 3 from a money perspective and then looking at relationships, research level, budgets, long term growth, facilities etc.
I hate that this is happening now, not because I think we would be even higher on the AACâs list two years from now than we are todayâbut of course that is true too. I hate it happening now because I feel like we have put things into motion so we can win more games and be more fun to watch. Right now beating MTSU, WKU, ODU and Davidsonâor anyone on our way to a good recordâwould feel like we had turned things around. I want to enjoy that for a while, and not focus on the empty chair at the AAC table. There is no way around it I guess, so if ODU or UAB is chosen I am going to feel like Mike Hill dropped the ball, and I hate to feel like we have failed at something I didnât want us to even be doing now anyway.
If we miss this I wonât feel Mike dropped the ball. The guy has been here for just over a year and he has been doing everything he can to right this ship that he took over that was stuck on a reef with a massive hole taking on water infested with rats and AIDS courtesy of our previous leadership. If we miss this it is entirely on Judyâs massive failure to run this department as she should have been and the enablers. If Mike Hill manages to get us into the AAC in this short order it is a miracle.
Now if in 5 years we are still in CUSA and/or miss some other chances to move up, then yes that is on Mike.
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Called it!
Called what? That one man can not undo 20 years of suck in 18 months?
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We have the market, enrollment, growth, and facilities to have been a slam dunk for this opportunity. The fact is, we canât blame Judy, Lambert, or Phil when we canât put 12,000 butts in the seats. We keep saying that when we win, people will come; does that mean that when we lose, they will leave?
We need a successful PR campaign to get our students, alumni, and community on board before we rise to the top. This, more than even wins will push us to the next level. I know Iâm preaching to the choir, but why must a school our size, in a city our size, miss out on transformational opportunities because of our own apathy? The results we want are right in front of us, if we just do our part. Buy your season tickets. Show up and get loud.
Go Niners!
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I am confident the spot is ours if we pull our head out of the sand and stop being terrible at revenue sports.
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