Conference of the Americas......one-bid

[GoldenWarrior11]

But fellas, "football drives the bus!"

I guess losing to Western Kentucky (C-USA) and Toledo (MAC) in bowl games places the AAC firmly out of the proximity of a perceived power conference.

Adding a plethora of schools of Conference USA to UCONN and Cincinnati and changing the conference name (albeit slightly) doesn't make it any better than the old C-USA. You can't put lipstick on a pig and make it pretty.

At least ESPN is happy hahaha.

[AACguy]

For a non-P5 football league the AAC had a great year. Obviously after the top couple of basketball schools the league is very soft. I guess I'm not sure why all the hate for the AAC here as I hope I haven't been a bad guest. I'll leave you to be and want you to know that you're welcome to chat with us anytime.

[stever20]

but what the hell are they supposed to do? Give up? just disband all their programs?

And sorry- but trading Marshall, Rice, UAB, and So Miss for Cincy, Temple, UConn, and USF- that IS an upgrade.
UAB 8-3 128
Marshall 4-8 192
Rice 3-7 220
So Miss 2-7 264

Cincy 10-3 74
UConn 7-3 93
Temple 5-5 114
USF 3-10 237

So it is better than what the CUSA of the recent past was.

[billyjack]

For a non-P5 football league the AAC had a great year. Obviously after the top couple of basketball schools the league is very soft. I guess I'm not sure why all the hate for the AAC here as I hope I haven't been a bad guest. I'll leave you to be and want you to know that you're welcome to chat with us anytime.

Not you, you've been great. But there was a Cincinnati fan that appeared here a month ago to talk trash, so he pissed a lot of us off. He vanished after they lost to Butler. Also, the csnbbs AAC site was in attack mode 24-7 against the Big East, and that also pissed a lot of us off too.

[Westbrook#36]

For a non-P5 football league the AAC had a great year. Obviously after the top couple of basketball schools the league is very soft. I guess I'm not sure why all the hate for the AAC here as I hope I haven't been a bad guest. I'll leave you to be and want you to know that you're welcome to chat with us anytime.

Not you, you've been great. But there was a Cincinnati fan that appeared here a month ago to talk trash, so he pissed a lot of us off. He vanished after they lost to Butler. Also, the csnbbs AAC site was in attack mode 24-7 against the Big East, and that also pissed a lot of us off too.

What billyjack said, it's not you. We get our share of AAC homers who do the typical drive by trolling, taking shots then leaving. Plus we have to deal with our resident AAC homer who continues to pretend he's a fan of Georgetown, while taking any and every opportunity to throw shade at the BE. Yeah if you want to see hate go to csnbbs aac board and mention the BE and watch the hate flow.

[stever20]

The 11 team American has 45 total losses.
30 American losses have been by under 10 points. <--- wow.
10 American losses have been by 3 or fewer points.
8 American losses have been by more than 15 points.
18 American losses have been vs teams in weak conferences (one-bid conferences).

The 10 team Big East has 29 total losses.
12 Big East losses have been by under 10 points.
7 Big East losses have been by 3 or fewer points (or OT).
10 Big East losses have been by more than 15 points.
9 Big East losses have been vs team in weak conferences (one-bid conferences).

The AAC has dropped a ton of single digit games.
2/3 of their losses are under 10 points.
The problem is really the weak teams that they've lost to... Alabama A&M, Southern, Boston U Terriers, Grand Canyon, James Madison, Delaware, Troy, Oral Roberts... that's the real killer for them... this doesn't count Little Rock, NJIT, Detroit Mercy, UAB and Mercer, who are at least solid.

The Big East weak team losses are really just Radford, Asheville and Incarnate Word... this doesn't count the solid teams of Little Rock, NJIT, Loyola Chicago, Belmont, Monmouth and Long Beach.

I think it may be even worse. It may be 35/45 within 10 points. With 6 of the other losses by USF. Never seen something like that before quite frankly....

[Jet915]

That's what happens when you sacrifice basketball for mid-major football (who is currently 0-2 in bowl season )

Toledo and Western Kentucky are football powerhouses though....

[GumbyDamnit!]

Why should we have any sympathy for all of the close losses? The same lens that sees UC better than its record because of its close losses certainly can be used to view Gtown differently a. @MD, Radford etc were all winnable games. Only the Monmouth game got away from them. We could be talking about 6-7 bids instead of 5-6.

Last year the AAC was a two bid conference. This year should be much of the same. Underwhelming. And celebrating when your 300+ RPI team is better than last year is pathetic actually. If the AAC is going to be good SMU, UCONN, UC, Temple, Memphis all have to be good. Look at the BE conversely. Everyone thought that teams like Marq and Gtown had to carry the conference the first few years. We might get 5-6 bids without either and ha e had 4 different teams all ranked in the Top 10.

AAC guy always welcomed...class act. Bearcat Bounce scattered like a roach when the lights turn on. And we all see through Stever's antics by now.

[Jet915]

Why should we have any sympathy for all of the close losses? The same lens that sees UC better than its record because of its close losses certainly can be used to view Gtown differently a. @MD, Radford etc were all winnable games. Only the Monmouth game got away from them. We could be talking about 6-7 bids instead of 5-6.

Last year the AAC was a two bid conference. This year should be much of the same. Underwhelming. And celebrating when your 300+ RPI team is better than last year is pathetic actually. If the AAC is going to be good SMU, UCONN, UC, Temple, Memphis all have to be good. Look at the BE conversely. Everyone thought that teams like Marq and Gtown had to carry the conference the first few years. We might get 5-6 bids without either and ha e had 4 different teams all ranked in the Top 10.

AAC guy always welcomed...class act. Bearcat Bounce scattered like a roach when the lights turn on. And we all see through Stever's antics by now.

[DudeAnon]

AAC had a good year for football. Bowl losses don't negate that, same way our NCAA failures don't negate our previous 2 good seasons.