CUSA Regionalization concept would realign teams in AAC, Conference USA, Sun Belt

[Tech52]

Report is AAC to invite UTSA, UNT, Rice, UAB, Charlotte, FAU.

I read that in tweets as those schools are expected to send applications, not receive invitations.

[revf]

Welp. It’s over.

[johnnylightnin]

I read that in tweets as those schools are expected to send applications, not receive invitations.

Those schools were said to be submitting applications this week.

[johnnylightnin]

Welp. It’s over.

The BBB mantra

[revf]

Dave, the AAC is apparently looking for national research universities who are competitive in football, basketball, and baseball and who also have a brand and a fanbase.

In truth, there are only 3 schools out of CUSA/SBC who meet that criteria - the Blazers, Bulldogs, and the Cajuns. If you drop the research university component, you could add the Thundering Herd to the list. USM would have been there a decade ago, but poor leadership has actually caused them to regress.

I know that many schools in the SBC have reservations about the AAC. But the NCAA's meeting later this year may change the look of the FBS. Those changes may continue over the next decade. And if that's the case I would want to be in either the AAC or MWC.

will bump this, but it doesn’t seem quite as accurate.

Apparently, what the aac is looking for is large metro areas.

[techman05]

The BBB mantra

To be recited minutes into any sports event that matters greatly for post season aspirations. Also to be chanted any time our admin finally learns about something happening in the sports world when it’s too late to do anything.

[Lotsudo]

will bump this, but it doesn’t seem quite as accurate.

Apparently, what the aac is looking for is "large metro areas".

Wasn't this the same intonation that originally kept Tech out of CUSA? Sounds like Memphis is at it again!!!!!!

[johnnylightnin]

Those schools were said to be submitting applications this week.

Pete Thamel says the expectation is that those applications will be accepted.

[THEarmada]

No way SMU would be ok with UNT.

No way Texas A&M let’s Texas in the SEC…oh wait.

[Tech52]

So the AAC is making the same mistake CUSA did.

I don’t understand many of these choices athletically. Charlotte, UNT, Rice… hmm.

[parisdog]

That’s a different situation. Texas brings in a hell of a lot more money than UNT.

[ChuckK3]

So the AAC is making the same mistake CUSA did.

I don’t understand many of these choices athletically. Charlotte, UNT, Rice… hmm.

Major metros.

[Tech52]

Major metros.

Itd make sense if they were a dominant presence in their metros. But they arent. And they already have SMU in one of those areas…

[glm47]

Welp. It’s over.

Unless you have a 20-pt. 4th quarter lead and Skip Holtz as your coach.

Or a 4-pt lead with 36 seconds left and Skip Holtz as your coach.

[The Historian]

will bump this, but it doesn’t seem quite as accurate.

Apparently, what the aac is looking for is large metro areas.

It looks like the entire dynamic of the situation changed over the past few weeks when it became clear the MWC was looking at expanding into Texas and taking UNT, UTSA, and Rice.

The AAC's expansion into Texas is to counter that potential move by the AAC.

The problem for the existing AAC members is the fact the league will become, in one day, a 1-bid league in men's basketball and baseball.