TheColonyEagle

I guess someone has to turn off the lights and lock the door behind them…

According to Vito’s update from practice yesterday…..he seems to think Rogers has the upper hand.

Great: "your teams can come fill our stadium for us and we'll throw in a free pizza at Campisi's, it will be like a Pony Excess traveling tour"

I wonder.... How many current ACC schools have a bigger following in Dallas right now than the "Dallas Team"

Kind of what I was thinking..... If he's showing something this fall, then let's go. But I don't care if the best QB this year won't be here next year. Play the one that helps us win this year.....this year. This is a year by year thing....we'll worry about next year next year. Who's to say we can't challenge for the conference this year with a senior that puts us on a trajectory and gets us a super stud transfer next season... Let's try to win as many games as we can this year....

And why would those 2 from AAC and the best of the Mountain West do that? And who would pay this collection of teams an upgraded TV deal? And why would they do that?

If you truly hate SMU……you want to watch them do this. Really pay their way into the ACC and watch what happens next. We’ll be back in the same conference with them in a few year only they’ll have spent all those millions to end up right back where they belong.

ACC to Clemson and FSU: "please don't go....tell you what, we'll add Stanford, Cal and another one" Clemson/FSU: "Stanford, Cal and who?" ACC: "You know, the school. We'll add them. Stanford, Cal and anther one. Clemson/FSU: "yeah but who is the 3rd one?" ACC: "Just...please don't go. Don't worry about it. We're adding some stuff and things. Stanford! We're adding Stanford! Please?! They don't even want any money. They'll pay their way. Plus Stanford!"

If one could come up with a single sentence that fully encapsulates the college football landscape today….this would be it.

The scrimmage is when?

Any scoop on the QB battle? Three way battle according to some. Anyone stepping up? I’m assuming the starter will need to be named in the next couple of weeks as they move to game planning for Cal.

Technically it doesn’t…..

I’ll buy that….

I don’t know…. I’ll believe it when I see it. Then I still might not believe it. I’m not sure I see the complete upside. For us or them. Outside of avoiding AAC schools going the other way. I guess Competition gets a little better. I just have a hard time seeing Stanford joining a Conference with UT San Antonio. (Forget their academics, UTSA has arguably the worst overall athletic program in the AAC) then compare that to a Stanford. Imagine how they would feel. I just think they would go Indy before they did that. “Best option if the 4 want to stay together” do they? Why? Stanford has no attachment to Wash St or Oregon St outside of geography (which obviously means nothing anymore) and conference affiliation (see geography) I don’t see it happening. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong.

that would probably make more sense (travel wise) But we probably need to stop trying to inject logic into any of these discussions.....

So if I'm an (enter sport here) recruit and I'm looking at going to Stanford or Cal and they're in the ACC... "Sorry Momma....if you want to watch a road game.....check out flights from SFO to Raleigh." I just think that is an absolute disaster waiting to happen for Stanford and Cal recruiting wise. Who wants to fly 3,000 miles for every single conference road game?

From a perception standpoint I think the game has become a little more important with everything that’s going on. And it’s probably bigger for Cal than us. I would imagine anyone that cares about Cal football is moaning and rolling their eyes at even being mentioned in the same breath as the AAC. That becomes a little more difficult if they come to Denton and get beat by one of those lowly AAC teams.

Seems like this first game vs Cal just had a little more meaning now…. Just has that feeling. Would be a good look for us to win that game. Bad look for them.

This is why all of the: “they’ll just pluck MWC and AAC teams” talk is foolish. The bowls aren’t waiting around for the PAC. They don’t have to. This is yet another example that proves the PAC has zero leverage. So let’s all go jump to a conference with no TV deal, no name teams, no media exposure and no bowl tie ins. But they have *squints*: “AQ status?” For how much longer?

I love it. It makes too much sense. However you have to remove Texas and Texas A&M. They’re just in another stratosphere financially. The issue is TT, Baylor, TCU…..they THINK they’re UT’s equal because they’ve been in the same conference with them. They’re not. Take conference affiliation out of it and they’re no where close to those two. And TCU even made the champ game last season. Doesn’t matter. Not today. They stole the hearts of Fort Worth and that is Fort Worth’s team. But go outside Tarrant County and they don’t have NFL like appeal that a UT has. Is that kinda sad? Sure. But it’s facts. And that’s the crux of this whole thing. The UT’s, Ohio States, Bama, USC’s have been carrying the mid tier and lower teams for years and they’re tired of it. They want all the money for themselves. USC and Washington State may have shared a conference. But they share nothing else. In today’s world, the nostalgia if a great game in the 70s when there was a ranked matchup and a win would’ve put one at #1 in the AP, etc. means nothing anymore. Money is all that matters. If TTech and TCU and Baylor are millionaires. They’re trying to associate with Billionaires (UT and A&M). The SWC is long gone. Back to the original subject of a Texas conference. What I think this highlights is that the second tier (TCU, TTech, NC State, Oklahoma St…..programs that have good local, regional relevance) and the lower tier (G5s…..Memphis, Boise St, UNT, SDSU, SMU, Rice, etc) need to figure out how to move forward in this new world, our ego aside (will never happen) and focus on going regional. No one not in that upper echelon (top 25-30 programs) has a national appeal which means they are not going to get big TV deals. That model failed. Go regional and build geographic support.

I wouldn’t think so

Haven’t seen that anywhere. And Apple will be coming with waaay less than $20 million per school. I don’t see how they can afford to pay enough to make it worth any MWC/AAC program’s time. Those 4 Pac leftovers don’t add enough to warrant more money.

But what happens when 4/5 of this group decides that 1/5 isn’t relevant anymore and they want to eliminate their say. How difficult would that be? I guess they could take them to court…