La Tech mentioned as Top Candidate for AAC

Coach Bill Lewis · July 30, 2016

Don't shoot the messenger. From "Inside sources" posting on the C-USA message board.

southsideguy · July 30, 2016

where is my gun lol

This is getting scary i guess when the dust settles what is left of the other conference should divide up teams that are in the same regions

NorthTexan95 · July 30, 2016

eh ... I could see it.

UTSA Fan · July 30, 2016

Yes. Rice isn't it. LA Tech or Marshall. Ask yourself, if you could pick 1 team to join your conference from CUSA, who would you pick?

NorthTexan95 · July 30, 2016

7 minutes ago, UTSA Fan said:

Yes. Rice isn't it. LA Tech or Marshall. Ask yourself, if you could pick 1 team to join your conference from CUSA, who would you pick?

Marshall.

outoftown · July 30, 2016

10 hours ago, UTSA Fan said:

Yes. Rice isn't it. LA Tech or Marshall. Ask yourself, if you could pick 1 team to join your conference from CUSA, who would you pick?

Depends extremely on where I am geographically. I would guess in that sense La tech is the best compromise candidate.

Could C-USA get ULL to replace them, or has it fallen so much that it cannot poach the belt at will anymore?

GrandGreen · July 30, 2016

If SMU can shoot for the Big 12, there is no reason that NT should not be aiming for the AAC. Wins and losses can change, but location, academics, and size of school are a lot more stagnant. The good news is that one good year can turnaround the perception of a program.

I believe that NT is in as good of a position to move up as any other Western division CUSA team even with an awful recent record in the major sports. In terms of a combination of location, markets, size, academics and potential; NT has advantages over every team. Based on winning in the big three sports, NT would be at the bottom; but that is actually the easiest factor to change.

TreeFiddy · July 30, 2016

If Rice was already in the AAC and UH was not, do you think the AAC would pass on UH if given the opportunity?

We are the only thing standing in our way, not dirty smoo.

DeepGreen · July 30, 2016

11 hours ago, UTSA Fan said:

Yes. Rice isn't it. LA Tech or Marshall. Ask yourself, if you could pick 1 team to join your conference from CUSA, who would you pick?

FIU

MCMLXXX · July 30, 2016

17 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

FIU

Join your conference not leave your conference.

DeepGreen · July 30, 2016

FIU needs to leave.

Ben Gooding · July 30, 2016

Ugh. Makes no sense. Minimal fan base, horrible location, and 0 TV market to speak of.

VideoEagle · July 30, 2016

During the last big reorganization, a winning record was secondary to other factors. Look at Tulane, SMU, Memphis, San Jose State, Utah State and others.

UNT90 · July 30, 2016

2 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

If SMU can shoot for the Big 12, there is no reason that NT should not be aiming for the AAC. Wins and losses can change, but location, academics, and size of school are a lot more stagnant. The good news is that one good year can turnaround the perception of a program.

I believe that NT is in as good of a position to move up as any other Western division CUSA team even with an awful recent record in the major sports. In terms of a combination of location, markets, size, academics and potential; NT has advantages over every team. Based on winning in the big three sports, NT would be at the bottom; but that is actually the easiest factor to change.

Not one good year. Not at UNT. Multiple good years with wins that matter is what will turn heads and perception around.

No one will buy the "we just need facilities and we will explode" argument anymore. And they shouldn't.

Edited July 30, 2016 by UNT90

UNTexas · July 30, 2016

No conference wants a team at the FBS level that gets stomped 66-7 by an FCS team. It's just honesty. Our athletics are pathetic these days. Our sports need to improve and then maybe we can worry about conferences. Right now we bring nothing to the table other location.

GrandGreen · July 30, 2016

1 hour ago, UNT90 said:

Not one good year. Not at UNT. Multiple good years with wins that matter is what will turn heads and perception around.

No one will buy the "we just need facilities and we will explode" argument anymore. And they shouldn't.

Obviously, the more good years the better. However, one good year will turn the perception around at least till it is followed by a disaster such as occurred the season after the Dallas Bowl.

Edited July 30, 2016 by GrandGreen

ChristopherRyanWilkes · July 30, 2016

Interesting. Right now the hierarchy is definitely Sun Belt, CUSA, and Mac at the bottum; AAC and MWC as the stepping stones to P5 conferences. Will be interesting to see how the shake-up goes. However, I bet SMU will end up in a worse situation either way.

RBP79 · July 30, 2016

I still see Rice replacing Houston if they get a promotion. NT ain't going anywhere right now.....if they do some one needs a raise.

ChristopherRyanWilkes · July 30, 2016

13 minutes ago, RBP79 said:

I still see Rice replacing Houston if they get a promotion. NT ain't going anywhere right now.....if they do some one needs a raise.

Most likely scenario is Houston and BYU to the Big 12. AAC will likely take Rice and MWC might take a team like UTEP. Either way, we aren't going anywhere and could be left with one or two fewer in-state rivals. I'd rather AAC take La Tech and MWC take someone besides UTEP. That way we can easily replace LaTech with ULL and not be much the lesser.

MCMLXXX · July 30, 2016

Why would the MWC expand? BYU is an independent.

ChristopherRyanWilkes · July 30, 2016

6 minutes ago, MCMLXXX said:

Why would the MWC expand? BYU is an independent.

Whoops--I always forget that and was thinking of Boise State.

wardly · July 30, 2016

The AAC is not going to leave the Houston market for Ruston, La. Rice will slide in nicely with SMU,Tulas, and Tulane.Book it, Dano!

TreeFiddy · July 30, 2016

We couldn't get so lucky. The odds are that we lose some combination of Rice, Southern Miss, Marshall. Hopefully just one.

UNT90 · July 31, 2016

6 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

Obviously, the more good years the better. However, one good year will turn the perception around at least till it is followed by a disaster such as occurred the season after the Dallas Bowl.

Keep in mind season ticket sales DROPPED the year after the HOD bowl.

Its going to take wins that matter and winning consistently.

Sadly, that's the state this thing is in.

UTSA Fan · July 31, 2016

1 hour ago, TreeFiddy said:

We couldn't get so lucky. The odds are that we lose some combination of Rice, Southern Miss, Marshall. Hopefully just one.

My uneducated guess would be adding LA Tech to those three as the top 4. I hope there is very little movement this go around to buy time. I hate to think things are finally in place and then there is a major shake up/realignment and then all the teams are stuck in place for a long time.