At this point I want Stanford to âgo awayâ to the ACC and take Cal with them. Letâs be done with this for a year or two.
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Gotta agree with the above. I was wary of kowtowing to Stanford. Now I am ready for them to just go away.
What benefit does the ACC derive from Stanford and or Cal?? Olympic travel costs will be ridiculous and they will.be on an island out West. They do not bring that much market share to the media deal and will dilute the honey pot even more. Will the ACC start looking for more western partners for the conference? Thats the only thing that makes sense.
I canât see Stan being able to rebuild the PAC when they are simultaneously trying to get into the AAC or B10. No programs are going to join them as a flagship school to build the conference around when they are telegraphing what they really want. Why would a network agree to any type in new PAC deal knowing Stan doesnât even wanna be there.
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All I know is that all the ACC teams but 4 saw value in the add and they just need to flip one school to their side. I donât care what value that is to ACC/ESPN, I just want this shit to end for a while.
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A full merger is an excellent place to be and could be program altering if autonomous status is maintained.
An intact AAC is a pretty good place to be.
Small raid (keeping Memphis) AAC is still good.
Large raid is CUSA level (with the SBC defectors)
AAC disbanding is cataclysmic.
Thatâs the scenarios, Iâll be very happy with option 2. It scares me to have Califord as the foundation upon which a conference is built. I think Iâm in the camp now where Iâd like to see the ACC make the mistake and take them to stabilize things for a bit.
I like things the way they are. We havenât even played an AAC football down and we have a bunch of left coast pricks stealing our thunder. Biff is about to make the AAC RE COG NA TIZE
Agreed.
Please take them ACC.
Then either leave the AAC alone or let us bring in OSU and WSU. Would love that.
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Maybe I am being naive, but I still donât see AAC teams being jettisoned
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Youâre not being naĂŻve. Itâs by far the mostly like scenario as of now. The Pac4 donât have a TV deal to offer anyone at the moment.
Good lord the âveteranâ AAC fans love to get high on hopeium and shit on everyone on their assumed way out. Going to need some major copeium when this is over.
I will enjoy beating USF by 4 TDs this year. Iâll even smoke a cigar after and ash on their grave.
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Yeah, the list seems a little wonky. Iâd say UAB and USF are overstated as well.
your not being naive. it is very unlikely that anyone gets kicked out. plus on the off chance that is an option on the table no one even knows what Stanfords criteria would even be for who gets to stay and go. and while a number of veteran aac program fans feel safe in being spared the reality is a number of programs have something going against them that the pac 4 might see as a negative to study to see if its enough of a reason to kick that program out if it was on the table.
wichita and navy could be on the chopping block if it means stanford could bring in a program that brings both football and basketball to the conference
one of the 4 texas teams could on the chopping block be to prevent a texas blockade so stanford doesnât have to deal with them voting in unison and stopping stanford if they want to shape the conference the way they want it to look like
ecu and tulsa could be on the block if they dont like the idea of travelling to those areas.
charlotte could be removed if they dont feel we have done enough in improving the main sports
fau could be removed if they think its too commuter to their liking.
uab could be removed for fear they might fold the program again.
ultimately this is a conference of misfit toys that stanford is dealing with. they know this so in all likelihood they are going to come in with it as is with a couple of other pac programs knowing its a project conference and try to get it to tip top shape if they cant get the B1G invite.
Research is heavily weighed in that ranking. The US military doesnât do their research at the service academies.
also I think a full merger is a better option that would be pushed by the media companies since it finally eliminates a conference they would need to negotiate with.
There is value to that ACC add like there is value to my wife adding to her wardrobe every season. Just draining resources for no gain.
What did I read that the PAC was overpaid and will owe money with any conference change. Sounds to me like the PAC got all the baggage and pretending to have all the leverage
Thanks! Everything else Iâve read puts the USNA as the top academic program in the AAC, so was taken a back by a ranking that had Annapolis near the bottom.
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