IT'S HAPPENING

[BleedsGreen33]

Our leadership better be making calls to the AAC right now.

BYU, Houston, UCF, Cincinnati planning to submit applications to Big 12, sources confirm​

5:45 PM ET

• Heather Dinich
• Adam Rittenberg

BYU, Houston, UCF and Cincinnati are planning to submit applications next week to join the Big 12, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday.
The schools could be approved for admission as early as a Sept. 10 meeting of Big 12 presidents, according to Sports Illustrated, which first reported the story.
"Things are moving very quickly," one source told ESPN on Friday. "There's obvious momentum to get votes to the board."
American Athletic Conference bylaws require schools to give a 27-month notice before they leave and pay a $10 million buyout fee. In that scenario, joining by the 2023 season would be a long shot, but an earlier exit and higher buyout could be negotiated. The most realistic timeline, sources said, is 2024.

Sources: Big 12 set to receive four applications

BYU, Houston, UCF and Cincinnati are planning to submit applications next week to join the Big 12, sources confirmed to ESPN. The most realistic timeline for the teams from the American to join is 2024, sources said.

www.espn.com

 

[ARandomHerdFan]

Yay! More conference realignment talk!

If you’ll excuse me…

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Hearing ODU and Charlotte to the SEC and ACC respectively.

 

[Rock98Dog]

Please let them throw everyone from the Belt, CUSA and AAC in a pot and form a southwest, southeast and mid-Atlantic/mid-west conference. That would put us with:

Marshall
Memphis
Middle
WKU
ODU
Appy
Charlotte
ECU
Temple
UMass
Coastal Carolina
Navy

that’s good football and basketball and soccer.

 

[IslandHerd1]

Hearing ODU and Charlotte to the SEC and ACC respectively.

Charlotte had a nice W against the last place team in the ACC

 

[Shark19]

Yay! More conference realignment talk!

If you’ll excuse me…

LOL, great scene from the Brit comedy The IT Crowd, well worth seeing on Netflix.

 

[johns1124]

AAC is watered down. Why would you want to go unless they take someone like App, or Boise. CUSA sucks, but makes no sense moving from one CUSA to another.

 

[BleedsGreen33]

AAC is watered down. Why would you want to go unless they take someone like App, or Boise. CUSA sucks, but makes no sense moving from one CUSA to another.

Even the watered down AAC is a better conference than CUSA. Especially the media disparity. As of right now they get 7 million per school which is WAAAAY more than we get. Yes I know that would most likely be renegotiated down, but it still wouldn't be reduced to where ours is.

The AAC is also an ESPN conference so everything the do is covered and pumped up.

In no world is staying put in CUSA a smart thing to do. You're blind and biased if you truly believe it is.

 

[herdfan429]

Whose going to pay for this transition to a new conference?

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Charlotte had a nice W against the last place team in the ACC

They did but they couldn’t even fill up their 15K seat stadium. That’s sad. They have a great young coach. They can’t even impact the market in Charlotte

 

[johns1124]

Seems simple.

AAC adds Marshall, App. State, and Boise, and rivals the Big-12 football-wise.

Not sure why all the UCF fans are excited. They just joined a Basketball conference with a shitty basketball team.