Temple puts the beat down on Memphis. Last night USF embarrasses Cincy. And the Night before ECU destroys UCF
The AAC is vastly overrated
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Still a better conference than CUSA.
It's hands down the best G5 conference this year with a lot of parity at the top.
Oh no ESPN has to put all of their eggs in the University of Houston basket. In all fairness though they have h
have to agree even though it pains me. oh well maybe next year they suck
Parity is 6-5 UConn beating the best team in the league?
It's called premature ejaculation, ESPN blew its load on the AAC before anything was known because Ole Miss went down to Memphis.
How does their worst team losing to another conference team make them overrated? How does one 6-4 team beating another 6-4 team make them overrated? How does one of their better teams beating one of their better teams make them overrated?
Yes, I think the 4 teams in the top 25 was a bit much, but they're still obviously the best G5 conference this year.
Yes, I think the 4 teams in the top 25 was a bit much, but they're still obviously the best G5 conference this year.
Why, because they are beating up each other? UConn beats Houston. league has balance, doesn't mean that it is overrated. You also have to look at their non-league play and what those teams have done since........very impressive there
Toledo needs an Ohio upset at NIU to even win the MAC West.
Have to give the dog its due...AAC just might be IT this season. But, 0-11 sure looks good on UCF.
This.
Shoe can go off and try to defend this miserable little conference of theirs...but the whole fact of the matter is, there should be absolutely no reason a team supposedly "as good" as Houston, loses to a basketball school.
If Texas lost to Kansas (which it really could be compared to), would that mean the big 12 is competitive, or that Texas isn't as good and blew it?
Nothing in the OOC says Houston is very good, they beat Vanderbilt and Louisville...the latter of whom is obviously not as good as they once were and the former is just god awful each season as it is.
Face it, Houston couldn't keep their momentum going and crumbled under the pressure of their own spotlight. This was happening a while back when they began to lose leads in games and had to play from behind...only a matter of time till they would lose one.
And we shouldn't have lost to WKU last year so what's your point?
Difference is what WKU became after that and what UConn will be after this season...
Do you really think UConn is going to become something from one win? Doubtful. At least wku showed they were not as much of a fluke as people may have guessed in the following year.
Do you really think UConn is going to become something from one win? Doubtful. At least wku showed they were not as much of a fluke as people may have guessed in the following year.
UCONN has a good front seven. Was surprised last year and this year when ECU played Uconn and how physical and big they were up front and in corners. Imo, this has been the biggest difference between ECU competing in Cusa and the AAC. The bigs are well bigger imo. Skill positions about the same. Qb's a bit more consistent.
The other big difference imo is coaching. The league has excellent coaches and find weaknesses of their opposing teams better. Ruff has been out coached more since being in the AAC.
I have read and analyzed what you said. While some points are valid, I offer my analysis of both schools mentioned:
ECU and UConn both suck...
Is it any surprise to anyone that the most apologetic fans on this board for all things Marshall and CUSA related are also the same fans calling the AAC overrated?
I want to be in the AAC for the ESPN exposure only.
Even though the AAC is overrated, they still had 4 teams ranked at one time. Not even the old CUSA 1.0 or 2.0 can claim that.
That said it's clear the top teams of the AAC is no different from the middle and bottom teams. And the AAC wins in the OOC process the P5 is not that far out of reach like they claim. The middle and bottom of the P5 is just as good as the top G5 programs
Even though the AAC is overrated, they still had 4 teams ranked at one time. Not even the old CUSA 1.0 or 2.0 can claim that.
That said it's clear the top teams of the AAC is no different from the middle and bottom teams. And the AAC wins in the OOC process the P5 is not that far out of reach like they claim. The middle and bottom of the P5 is just as good as the top G5 programs
Yes, EXPOSED. This THE AMERICAN!!!! non-thing.
This is why you don't analyze conferences in early October.
Win all your games, go to the access bowl. Lose once, go to Boca. The same. A lateral move. Only difference, if anyone bothered to watch these games on ESPN17, was NO ONE CARES ENOUGH TO SHOW UP.
This is why you don't analyze conferences in early October.
Win all your games, go to the access bowl. Lose once, go to Boca. The same. A lateral move. Only difference, if anyone bothered to watch these games on ESPN17, was NO ONE CARES ENOUGH TO SHOW UP.
I'll give the AAC this, you can watch the entire conference each week across all ESPN platforms. That's better than the terrible ASN or hope and pray your region doesn't have a different game on Fox Sports
as i said earlier in the season, the AAC is the old CUSA. each year there are a couple stand out teams at the top of each division that lose a game or three they should never lose. then there are 2 or 3 teams in the middle of each division that have average records but always end up taking out one of the top teams. finally, you have the bottom teams that have bad records but still knock off some of the middle teams and every once in a while take out a top team. the end result is a decent league that NEVER had/has a BCS team.
i would much rather be in the AAC than C1DoubleA. however, 9 years out of 10 if a team goes unbeaten in any G5 league they will get the G5 spot. we would have gotten it last year with zero loses. we would get it this year with zero loses.
i would much rather be in the AAC than C1DoubleA. however, 9 years out of 10 if a team goes unbeaten in any G5 league they will get the G5 spot. we would have gotten it last year with zero loses. we would get it this year with zero loses.
No its not. Its the best G5 conference there is. Houston Navy and Temple all still have a chance to get the Access Bowl. 3 teams from 1 G5 conference does not equal vastly Overrated.
As usual--wrong!!
Conferences that have parity aren't necessarily bad conferences, they aren't necessarily good either..... for the most part, the only way you have to gage is by non-conference play. The fact that USF got better as the year went on is a testament to their coaching...... Clearly, Memphis is a good team, look at their wins and their losses, Temple too, and Houston, we know how hard it is to go undefeated, nonetheless, all of these teams, Memphis, Temple and Houston have good to very good wins and all acquitted themselves better against P5 completion than anyone in CUSA did correspondingly Notre Dame @ Temple for example). And Sam, did you see the crowd for the Houston @ UConn game, pretty impressive considering the year that UConn has had. SMU last night of course did their best impression of Rice!!!!!
Doesn't really matter, some of you seem to think that being honest with yourself about the obvious in some way denigrates Marshall, it doesn't!!! We are who we are no matter how, Temple, Memphis, Georgia Southern, App State, ECU, Boise, Toledo, BGSU or anyone else plays........We lost to MTSU and to Ohio, no matter what Navy or Temple or USF or anyone else does, we still lost to MTSU and OU, both by the way are Bowl eligible and having pretty nice years (granted, we are each's best win).
AND it wouldn't be a lateral move Sam, just saying it over and over doesn't in any way make it so. Having UCONN, Memphis, UCF, USF, Cincinnati, etc at our place in FB and BB would be a considerable step up and would sell many more tickets..... having Navy in FB alone would be a plus...... yes we'd still have Tulane, Tulsa and SMU occasionally in FB and always in BB, but compare any of those to North Texas and the rest of CUSA and I think you'll get the point. And notice, I didn't even mention Television.
Saying "wrong" and launching on a diatribe where do not even cover any points I make is not even debate. It is a much a nothing as your THE AMERICAN!!!.
Yes, it WAS wrong for you launch into this worship of your THE AMERICAN!!!!!! in mid-October based on the results of ONE GAME, a stunning upset of SEC 8-3 er by Memphis. You spoke too soon and nothing you can say now can change that. Even if you had properly waited to analyze your THE AMERICAN!!!!!! and Marshall's CUSA to the end of the year, all you would have is one year's results. All you could intelligently talk about was 2015. In 2014 our conference was better. See me in 2020 or so and we will have enough results to talk about trends. You blew it. You spoke too soon.
Since The Citadel also beat an SEC team, should we look at the SoCon? Laughable.
Then you go over my team's losses. OK, we are not 11-0 at this point. I guess that makes you happy. My team will try harder next year.
Then you make the stunning and truly strange statement at a bunch of team, some of whom (Cincinnati) G I V E away tickets to home games would sell more tickets here. Really? Link please. Surely you have market research of all the people out there that will show up to see MU play the mighty UCF Knights and not my conference's teams. Except they did not when they were here. Newsflash: Marshall fans show up to see Marshall play.
Then of course you did not mention TV. Because THE AMERICAN = random weeknights which kill programs like ours.
Yes THE AMERICAN!!!! is a lateral move. Win all your games, go to the "access bowl". Lose, just once, and go to Boca, et al. From CUSA, from THE AMERICAN, from the MWC. Even from the MAC. It is the system. Now, in this ONE YEAR, no body went undefeated, so they have to pick from among the one-lossers. Maybe that is your conference. Maybe it is another. Next year will be a different set up. That is why it is so really dumb to analyze a league in mid-October. Or even based on this one year's results.
The rest of your post is just ho-ha about how UConn's crowd really wasn't all that bad (did not mention any other's including the several who saw your mighty Temple) , and moral victories over Notre Dame (AKA losses).
Marshall isn't buying what you, Arseco, and ESPN are selling. We are just fine in our equal league.
Yes, it WAS wrong for you launch into this worship of your THE AMERICAN!!!!!! in mid-October based on the results of ONE GAME, a stunning upset of SEC 8-3 er by Memphis. You spoke too soon and nothing you can say now can change that. Even if you had properly waited to analyze your THE AMERICAN!!!!!! and Marshall's CUSA to the end of the year, all you would have is one year's results. All you could intelligently talk about was 2015. In 2014 our conference was better. See me in 2020 or so and we will have enough results to talk about trends. You blew it. You spoke too soon.
Since The Citadel also beat an SEC team, should we look at the SoCon? Laughable.
Then you go over my team's losses. OK, we are not 11-0 at this point. I guess that makes you happy. My team will try harder next year.
Then you make the stunning and truly strange statement at a bunch of team, some of whom (Cincinnati) G I V E away tickets to home games would sell more tickets here. Really? Link please. Surely you have market research of all the people out there that will show up to see MU play the mighty UCF Knights and not my conference's teams. Except they did not when they were here. Newsflash: Marshall fans show up to see Marshall play.
Then of course you did not mention TV. Because THE AMERICAN = random weeknights which kill programs like ours.
Yes THE AMERICAN!!!! is a lateral move. Win all your games, go to the "access bowl". Lose, just once, and go to Boca, et al. From CUSA, from THE AMERICAN, from the MWC. Even from the MAC. It is the system. Now, in this ONE YEAR, no body went undefeated, so they have to pick from among the one-lossers. Maybe that is your conference. Maybe it is another. Next year will be a different set up. That is why it is so really dumb to analyze a league in mid-October. Or even based on this one year's results.
The rest of your post is just ho-ha about how UConn's crowd really wasn't all that bad (did not mention any other's including the several who saw your mighty Temple) , and moral victories over Notre Dame (AKA losses).
Marshall isn't buying what you, Arseco, and ESPN are selling. We are just fine in our equal league.
Every time a Marshall fan talks crap about the AAC, an angel gets its wings...
Now commence with the "we would demolish you" talk, blah, blah, blah knowing you secretly would have given your half-sister girlfriend's right arm to play UCF (even if they are equal to a high school team right now) in prime time on ESPN, even if it was a Thursday night.
Now commence with the "we would demolish you" talk, blah, blah, blah knowing you secretly would have given your half-sister girlfriend's right arm to play UCF (even if they are equal to a high school team right now) in prime time on ESPN, even if it was a Thursday night.
"it is what it is" and for now and the next several years, it is CUSA. We have better OOC game coming and the conference will get better once the new members build their programs, UAB might bounce back to be competitive.
So, kick back and relax, and enjoy our new found ways of winning. Sure beats the HELL out of The Snyder Era.
So, kick back and relax, and enjoy our new found ways of winning. Sure beats the HELL out of The Snyder Era.
something that is almost ALWAYS forgotten in this discussion:
for Marshall to get an invite to the AAC that would mean another round of "expansion". all those teams everybody points to and would love on the schedule (me too) won't be there...
just like TCU, Louisville, Cincy, and USF weren't there last time we chased them...
for Marshall to get an invite to the AAC that would mean another round of "expansion". all those teams everybody points to and would love on the schedule (me too) won't be there...
just like TCU, Louisville, Cincy, and USF weren't there last time we chased them...
My thing about the AAC is this, Other than Navy, no other team can consistently beat their conference mates. No other team stepped up and assumed dominance over the rest.
Marshall, MTSU, WKU, Southern Miss, and LT could have all competed with the top teams in the AAC.
Marshall, MTSU, WKU, Southern Miss, and LT could have all competed with the top teams in the AAC.
It's not the aforementioned that kills CUSA it's the rest of the league that's pure shit. From top to bottom the AAC is stronger than CUSA and so is the MAC.
