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Sorry Admins...this needs to be on the Football forum! Great news for us to stay the top G5 conference....

Sources: Mountain West making push to keep remaining schools Sources told ESPN that the Mountain West is amid a significant push to solidify its future by offering guaranteed money to the schools, including one-time payments to formalize their status as league members going forward. Those include large payments to both UNLV and Air Force to stay in the league and also significant payments to all the other remaining members. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41402364/sources-mountain-west-making-push-keep-remaining-schools

These AAC offers need to happen! The MWC today is trying to lure remaining members to stay with financial guarantees.

I have not seen UTSA and Texas State mentioned together for the PAC. Some have mentioned Texas State as an upgrade replacement for UTSA into the AAC if they leave. 9 members is a better conference number because it allows for 4/4 home/away conference games.

Conferences are dropping divisions. I think the SunBelt is the only one now with divisions. It’s better to have a core of rivals or natural geographic conference opponents, then rotate thru the rest.

The new AAC Commish is going around visiting with all the league school’s individually. Not a sign of anything, just a cheerleading session for the conference admins. Rah!

vs BYU = 10 carries for 32 yards vs Idaho = 14 carries for 45 yards vs Az State = 6 carries for -30 yards Not a problem.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the Rocky Mountains. AAC schools are mostly in large metro cities. Pullman, Corvallis, Ft. Collins, Boise, and Fresno are not easy places to travel to. Large charter jets for football will be limited in getting into small airports. For smaller olympic sport teams, there is limited to no scheduled service to some of these destinations. They would have to make several connections or go to a large city airport and bus a distance.

A BIG beatdown win over Wyoming would help.

The SEC basically kicked out Tulane... Tulane University left the Southeastern Conference (SEC) at the end of 1965 for a number of reasons, including: Playing a more national schedule: Tulane's president at the time, Herbert Longenecker, said the school wanted to accommodate its diverse student body by playing a more national schedule. De-emphasis of football: Some say Tulane had de-emphasized football. Budget deficit: Others say the university was cutting scholarships due to a large budget deficit. Over-signing of players: Some say other schools were over-signing players in each recruiting class. Record: From 1953–1964, Tulane's record was 28–82–8, and they only won more than one SEC game in two of those seasons. Tulane joined the American Athletic Conference in 2022.

Why not? ...And why do the GMG.com Admins feel the need to banish these AAC Conference Football Membership threads to the junk pile?

"Within the proposal put forth by Clemson and Florida State, the term of the grant of rights would also be reduced -- potentially as early as 2030 -- to better fall in line with the expiration of TV deals in the Big 12 and Big Ten." https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41307506/acc-clemson-florida-state-renew-discussions-revenue-distribution-model

Yes, Tech got smashed by G5 Washington State, lol. They are trying to forget about getting beat by a lower level opponent! Their fans still showed up.

"All three phases..."

Are you going to be paying the band, cheerleaders, team managers, trainers, etc too?

He should have been there last week if he wanted to give Memphis a sales pitch. Too late now. Time to fire your DC too there Tim....

Agree. I'm not staying up for a 9:30pm Tulane game kickoff @ Fresno.

Agree with the need for relegation out of the top. Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Wake Forest, Rutgers, $mut, etc are not Top Shelf football powers. I'll say 50 schools max in the Super Conferences.

You obviously haven't been to both airports Coach.

It was really poor to plan for a sellout after a trip to Lubbock. It should have been done vs SFA, as they also brought more fans than Wyoming will.

Wyoming will have the worst QB and Offense we have seen this season (as stated by their own fans). I expect a larger point spread. Wyoming has only scored 34 total points all season.

AAC could backfill with Air Force and Texas State. Not worried about it. What will be interesting will be the PAC-X media deal. PAC-12 was going to be heavy streaming and light on ESPN.

AAC could just add Air Force and Texas State. Memphis is Probation U. anyway. Let them go...