ColoradoEagle

RV was very good at the gladhanding portion of the job, and advanced facilities in a way very few other people may have been able to do. Main problem was, outside of Johnny Jones, the man was incapable of picking a good football or basketball coach.

Because he's paid $500k+ a year to run a business, and from the outside looking in, that business is in decline.

It worries me that the school has added more than 14k students and the city of Denton has grown more than 50% since Johnny Jones started coaching at the school and attendance has been relatively flat and is now decreasing. Maybe getting people to care starts with the AD deciding to care.

What are the notches on his belt? What can he currently point to as "I did that"? I'm genuinely curious. Ross Hodge was an obvious choice and already here, but kudos I guess on not flubbing an easy one. I won't list what I feel like are the shortcomings, because I'm genuinely curious what makes him the best AD since Hayden Fry. I will say this man is being paid over half a million dollars a year, and the trajectory seems to be downwards.

I realize we're probably not going to buy out Mosley's contract, but he better be out after 2027. He's just absolutely awful at his job.

It's not a zero sum game. The problem can both be that students and locals aren't putting in the effort to be connected to their university just as much as the AD doesn't market or promote anything. One can be controlled and the other cannot.

Not promoting basketball games is a long standing tradition that goes back to at least 2003 with RV (probably earlier as well, but that was before my time). To this day, the biggest promotion for basketball in the last 20+ years was organized by students for the TCU game in 2004, self funded plus donations by people from this forum to pay for it.

I'm seriously pissed beyond a funny GIF here. Second to last in the conference in ticket sales. Last in 'Total Support'. Last in Contributions. Laughably last in Collective Funding. Still nowhere near moving dirt on the new AC. Declining basketball attendance despite a 13-4 record. Someone fire this man.

@Jared Mosley

Free of charge.

I am. Haven't seen anything to indicate Mosley is anywhere close on this. The fact that it's separated out into two phases on lightthetower, and the FAQ is basically warning that just because phase 1 is done doesn't mean phase 2 will start immediately after gives me very little confidence in this AD.

At this rate, Mosley won't have the AC renovated this decade.

Yep. And I'm not trying to be elitest; I have no issues with Texas State the institution. The problem the AAC is facing is the floor has absolutely fallen out in basketball, and the conference hasn't appeared as the G5 rep in the top tier bowls since Tulane a couple years ago. We need more consistent football and for the bottom 2/3 of the conference to stop phoning it in in basketball. At the very least, we need a 'brand' that will add to the media contract. I'm up for adding any school that can do any of those, so long as the numbers make sense.

From the outside looking in, it seems NIL and money towards the program in general are probably pretty low. Mosley has been AD for over two years now and accomplished roughly douchebag all. But honestly, it's what I expected when a 'national search' promoted someone from an AD that has been just awful since at least when I started following the program in 2003.

They're not good at anything other than being a close destination to party at. This conference already has plenty of not good at anything.

164 currently in the NET rankings. Not just no, but hell no. Any additions the AAC does from this point forward need to at least accomplish one of three things: hugely successful in football, hugely successful in basketball, or a massive brand (eg. Air Force). Texas State doesn't check any of those three boxes.

The PAC stands a real chance of becoming the 'Big East of the West', but I think they'll still be fighting to get into the CFP each year with the rest of the G5. MWC obviously is a huge downgrade since they're the conference that got raided. The best thing they have going for them is stability. Outside of AFA and, to a lesser degree, NIU and UNLV, no one has any interest in those schools. AAC did well with the Army pickup. What happens in the next few years under the new commissioner will be important. As a conference, we've scheduled ourselves into a one bid joke like Sun Belt or CUSA. They've gotta figure out some strategy there. For football, it's hard to say we're better or worse off than last year. SMU going to the CFP was a fluke compared with the past 30 years, but I imagine they'll be a stronger program in general than they were in the AAC due to the amount of money and attention the ACC brings. At least while it lasts...

I didn't think this was possible or a best practice in the middle of the season? Wild.

I don't see Memphis joining as a full member, and then that kinda defeats the purpose. Sending all their olympic sports to the mountains and west coast just isn't feasible. Outside shot they would make the move with 1-4 more schools, but also hard to imagine that happening when there's no media deal.

If those two are in play, I hope the AAC is also on the phone. NIU has produced some good football upsets for years now, and Toledo has been generally higher end in basketball. Full member in AAC maybe vs. football only in MWC?

I'm not talking about being dissolved today. That's not going to happen. I'm talking about members agreeing to dissolve the conference once they've been paid in 2026. At that point there would be no exit fee, because it would literally just be SJSU left. I think, at worst, there's a cash settlement with SJSU and/or whoever else may be left out.

Maybe. The top 5 programs in the new Pac have NET rankings of 44 or better. Top 5 in the AAC have 104 or better. But if you compare the average ranking of the top 7 in each conference, it's 80 vs. 90, so not that much difference. What really kills the AAC is the bottom half of the conference is 00's Sun Belt level bad. To top it off, we as a conference schedule such a breezy OOC schedule most years that there's just nowhere to go but down once conference play starts. Not sure what the rest of the conference is doing this year, but we're definitely doing our part to drag down that average with scheduling.

I agree to disagree on the MWC folding. Having one less conference to compete with for the playoffs, and one less avenue for FCS to continue moving up to FBS seems like a good thing in the long run. 12 is too many for the Pac, because they're trying to maximize value. I know you disagree, but I don't see their media partner wanting to add another 50% yearly just to add four from the AAC. Much more likely is AAC/ESPN working on something that works for the 3-4 remaining MWC schools not named SJSU. Just to be clear, I don't see any of these teams joining the AAC until 2027 or 2028. And the MWC contract is almost up. If you think they're going to secure $5-6m per school for the leftovers of that conference plus whoever they can snatch from CUSA/FCS, you're nuts.