(02-27-2018 11:16 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  It doesn't matter where AAC headquarters are, as the conference has no geographic center of gravity.

The AAC's identity is "the best football schools east of continental divide that aren't in the P5". That's basically no identity at all, so as long as the HQ is east of the Rockies, it's fine.

If you average the geographic coordinates, the center of gravity is somewhere in the triangle formed by Birmingham, Chattanooga and Atlanta. Atlanta is closest to that center.

The conference is mostly southern schools (UCF, USF, ECU, Memphis, Tulane and I would argue Houston as that corner of Texas is part of the deep South), with a number of schools lying on its border (Temple just north of the Mason-Dixon, Navy actually south of it, Cincy straddling the Kentucky border, SMU and Tulsa in the southern influenced plains, with Wichita not that far north of Tulsa). Only UConn is solidly outside the reach of the south. (Heck swap them for UAB or USM and Birmingham would be the geographic center).

Atlanta is the logical central location. The problem is the SEC HQ is there, also, but then again only Georgia Tech is physically in town (well UGa isn't that far away). Houston or Dallas or Memphis (thanks to FedEx) are the other hubs that get you out of the Bos-Wash corridor.

I thought this was settled and Dallas was where they were headed. What changed?