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Post by theneumann64 on Feb 28, 2024 8:21:09 GMT -5
Was just checking an AAC Message Board to see if there was any news about the football schedule coming out (Army joins this year for football and I have season tickets) and saw this post. Figured I'd share. csnbbs.com/thread-987279.html |
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Feb 28, 2024 9:44:35 GMT -5
If I was Dayton I wouldn't join the AAC. If I was St. Louis I would. If I was Loyola, I would.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Feb 28, 2024 9:59:24 GMT -5
America East, where UMass-Lowell plays, is a more highly rated basketball conference than the MAC according to KenPom. It's humorous that UMass-Lowell will be playing in a better conference than UMass.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Feb 28, 2024 10:52:56 GMT -5
That's how much better the football money must be than the basketball money.
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Post by roaddog77 on Feb 28, 2024 16:08:24 GMT -5
That's how much better the football money must be than the basketball money. football money is always better than basketball money. Army football moving to the AAC for football only and Rutgers departed from the Big East to join the Big 10 for football money. In my opinion, UMass should stay independent in football and the A10 in basketball. UMass will lose than gain money in the MAC. |
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Feb 28, 2024 16:17:00 GMT -5
In my opinion, UMass should stay independent in football and the A10 in basketball. UMass will lose than gain money in the MAC. They're not going to just lose a ton more money. And I bet they've done the calculation to figure out how this helps enrollment and alumni engagement. |
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Post by thelasallelunatic on Feb 28, 2024 16:40:40 GMT -5
In my opinion, UMass should stay independent in football and the A10 in basketball. UMass will lose than gain money in the MAC. They're not going to just lose a ton more money. And I bet they've done the calculation to figure out how this helps enrollment and alumni engagement. How long can the MAC survive in this NIL, conference realignment, current bastardized version of college football? |
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Feb 28, 2024 16:43:53 GMT -5
I don't think they're trying to beat Alabama though. College football is more like F1 than College basketball. Just want to move up a spot or two.
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Post by explorerman on Feb 28, 2024 20:25:11 GMT -5
They're not going to just lose a ton more money. And I bet they've done the calculation to figure out how this helps enrollment and alumni engagement. How long can the MAC survive in this NIL, conference realignment, current bastardized version of college football? Bingo it doesn’t… Which is amazing part of all this.. Suprised the UMASS Board isn’t factoring that.. UMASS will lose more money with this move.. which is the funny part.. and be in a less prestigious conference.. |
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Post by hykos1045 on Feb 29, 2024 8:14:51 GMT -5
Hot take: George Mason has passed UMass as a program, and even 13th seed La Salle has a winning record against Frank Martin, so UMass had to get out of the A10.
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Post by crayzeeguy on Feb 29, 2024 14:27:58 GMT -5
Payback for running Lou Roe out there for 7 seasons like we didnt already know he was out of eligibility
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Post by big5explorer on Mar 3, 2024 12:54:35 GMT -5
Good. Maybe this is the beginning of the end of the Atlantic 10. Why is this good? |
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Mar 3, 2024 13:01:14 GMT -5
Answered this above. I think that the conference has become a bad conference for 6-7 of the schools in it, La Salle included and I think that the resources necessary to compete (in MBB and WBB) and for sports to travel to the far away locations have strangled the school for the last 10+ years. You want to know why people don't go to La Salle basketball games? Because the team is irrelevant in their own conference and has been for the 14 of the last 20 years.
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Post by coqui900 on Mar 3, 2024 15:10:04 GMT -5
I’ve brought up the MAAC before and the response has been met with “are you an idiot?” And the counter to it is: There would be no change in fan interest, we’d still play schools out of conference, and we’d have like five more tournament appearances.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Mar 3, 2024 20:06:15 GMT -5
The MAAC is too much of a step down for La Salle. I don’t like the A10 for La Salle. There isn’t another conference that is perfect. The MAAC is the worst option.
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Post by explorer88 on Mar 3, 2024 20:09:33 GMT -5
Small A-10 schools and the top half of the MAAC is the ticket. Won’t happen but we can dream.
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Post by sbrand on Mar 16, 2024 10:54:46 GMT -5
I interviewed Curry Hicks Sage who is an expert on UMASS hoops. Here is his take.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Mar 16, 2024 11:13:46 GMT -5
Moved this. It didn’t need its own thread.
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Post by crayzeeguy on Mar 16, 2024 21:05:50 GMT -5
I’ve brought up the MAAC before and the response has been met with “are you an idiot?” And the counter to it is: There would be no change in fan interest, we’d still play schools out of conference, and we’d have like five more tournament appearances. I’d be completely happy with the last few years if I was a St. Peter’s fan |
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Post by giveansk1 on Mar 23, 2024 22:19:27 GMT -5
I wonder if Wichita St would want to move to A-10 with the American collapsing in basketball, only getting worse next year too.
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