(03-02-2018 09:27 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  

(03-02-2018 09:08 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-02-2018 06:32 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 04:21 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 02:30 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Frankly, I find Frazier's comments FAR more damaging and demeaning to the G5 than the AAC marketing blitz. Of course, that's what FRazier really wants--the G5 to split off and be happy with some sort of worthless Pee Wee Playoff on BeIn.

I can't blame Aresco for his P6 campaign, he is way-overpaid by the AAC to promote its interest, and it is in the interest of the AAC to be viewed as superior to the other G5 conferences. He's just doing his job.

That said, I don't blame Frazier either, because he is doing his job too. As much as Aresco might want to say that the P6 campaign is about "ourselves" and not the rest of the G5, when you say you are above the rest of the G5, which "P6" definitely does do, then you are doing something that harms NIU and the rest of the G5. Because instead of being behind just 5 conferences, Aresco is saying they are actually behind 6 conferences.

So Frazier is correctly combating the AAC's "P6" campaign because it does harm his conference/school interests.

I get where he's coming from in removing the top average performer (on field, ratings, budgets, salaries, attendance, recruiting...) the remaining collective average declines. As he is a proponent of a separate G5 playoff which would assumably have a separate collective TV deal, it is beneficial, maybe even necessary, to have the top conference (real or perceived) involved.

The AAC has been the top performing G5, but performance really has nothing to do with it. It wouldn't matter if it was the AAC or Sun Belt claiming it was "P6", the effect is the same: It implies that the other members of the G5 are below yet another conference, so it is an 'attack' so to speak, on their interests.

I disagree. He could watch the AAC go their own way and point and laugh all he wants and still try to rally the remaining schools form a coalition/playoff. There's nothing stopping him from doing that if he really thinks it's in his school's best interest. Obviously, it's jmo, but I seriously doubt he'd be as vocal if it was the SBC wanting no part of a G package deal.

... but putting the playoff package aside, if the Sun Belt was claiming to be a Power conference, i think he'd object to that, because it does challenge NIU interests.