Concerns about AAC tv deal if Houston, UCONN and or UC leave?
- Thread starter Chris McLaughlin
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Hope its sooner, rather than later. Then I guess the mighty EERS will be trying to get into an expanded Mountain East Conference, maybe with North and South divisions.
Well, we can all hope!!
I think that is a plausible scenario but if it happens, I think the "new P4" will expand to 16 teams each. No current P5 school will be left behind. The gap between P4 and the"new G4" will become even larger.
I think the college football model most of us have grown up with is gone forever.
No they don't because the students and alumni of those schools are usually at home watching Ohio St or Michigan play instead of going to games. Going back to the MAC is not an option and would slowly kill all of the progress we have made and ultimately end the program as a top G5 school.
why does anyone on this board believe MU can go back to the MAC just because it wants to? There were many hard feelings when they left and many of the same people are still there..........don't assume that this would be easy.
The MAC is very stable and very happy with who they are
And indeed they ALWAYS have been which is why we should go independent before ever even considering the MAC.
All this gloom and doom Dan. Why?
Ga Tech just lost their AD this week to Purdue and Atlanta talk radio has been crucifying him....he left the ACC for the Big 10 Purdue that we BEAT last year. I'm worried they call Hamrick.
The world is going to turn. Marshall will survive and even thrive. If you would have told me when I was in school I would have season tickets on the 50 yard line with a possible Top 10 ACC school coming to play us, and that we have a real shot to win, I would have laughed you out of the classroom.
Best school in the state, we will survive and yes, thrive.
no gloom and doom from me......just responding to what other people write. Personally, I think we control our own destiny. Ball is in Marshall's court assuming Big XII ever actually chooses to do anything relative to expansion...... how we choose to move or not move is up to those employed to make those decisions, I just hope they consider it very carefully and really weigh all of the options and opportunities.
I had this discussion with Mike Farrell when he was interim President: Your greatest fear regarding realignment should be waking up some morning and finding that all of the schools you want to align with have gone elsewhere while you slept and you find yourself without a home that makes sense.
I'm certain Hamrick is in touch and working it BEHIND the scenes. Hopefully sending a letter that will be made public ala MTSU WONT happen. A slap in the face to CUSA from a school with an empty stadium but a decent hoops program. Still you don't lobby like that IMO.
This money grab, all this craziness is ruining the best sport in the nation, college football.
I will say this, the timing on getting the Doubletree couldn't have came at a better time. That alone may keep us in the running.
NBC is reporting that the Big XII will do video conferences with 17 schools and most likely will take only 2 schools. IF the AAC only takes 1 from CUSA, I see our chances of being asked as very slim. I believe that ODU location, both proximity to Navy, Temple and ECU along with recruiting hotbed gives them a leg up.
First, Marshall is light years ahead of ODU in every way except the silly pre-cord cutter old timey idea that being IN a place is the same as being SIGNIFICANT IN that place and to thus abuse viewers into paying in-market rates for things they have no interest in. MU, in fact, is so obviously the first choice IF IN FACT THIS AAC IS REALLY A DESIREABLE STEP, it is undebatable.
As to the Big 12's candidates to become Little #9 and Little #10, the list is Cincinnati, Houston, BYU, USF, UCF, UConn, Memphis, Colorado State, Boise State, Tulane, Temple, East Carolina, SMU, and New Mexico.
Obviously this is an auction in reverse. Who will take the least TV money for the five years remaining on the Big 12 contract? So discussions of logic and common sense are not relevant. Who is willing (and able) to do what WVU does, which is be a field filler for $$, with the added step of not getting most (or any) of those $$ for five or six years. Therefore my money is on New Mexico, BYU, Colorado State, SMU, or, yes, Tulane, have the $$ to sustain themselves in the short term.
Hamrick was just appointed as CUSA's representative on D-1's Football Oversight Committee. I wouldn't worry about him leaving anytime soon.
