Q: What’s the latest on the conference’s bowl agreements? Any chance for the American to play a bowl in Texas?

A: We’re definitely in the mix for one of the bowls in Dallas/Fort Worth. We’re looking at the Liberty Bowl, which has the Big 12 on one side. I think we’ll be playing the Big 12 in a couple of our bowls. We’re looking at renewing our games in Birmingham, Ala. (BBVA Compass Bowl), St. Petersburg, Fla. (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl) and possibly having our teams go to Hawaii a few times. We’re also looking at some other bowls. And we’re definitely serious about starting our own bowl and have looked at the South Florida market. We’ll have a wide range of good opponents and good locations. I think we’ll be playing the Southeastern Conference, the Big 12, Atlantic Coast Conference and we’re looking at games possibly involving a Pac-12 team and some of the other conferences like C-USA and possibly Mountain West. Remember we have very good chance to be playing on New Year’s Day or New Year’s Eve with our champion in one of the playoff system bowls. We hope obviously that we will be competing for one of four playoff spots, but even if we don’t make that if we are the highest ranked conference of the so-called group of five – C-USA, Mountain West, Sun Belt and Mid-American – we would play in a New Year’s Day bowl against a high-profile opponent. We think we have a real chance to do that most years

(06-27-2013 11:14 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Q: What’s the latest on the conference’s bowl agreements? Any chance for the American to play a bowl in Texas?

A: We’re definitely in the mix for one of the bowls in Dallas/Fort Worth. We’re looking at the Liberty Bowl, which has the Big 12 on one side. I think we’ll be playing the Big 12 in a couple of our bowls. We’re looking at renewing our games in Birmingham, Ala. (BBVA Compass Bowl), St. Petersburg, Fla. (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl) and possibly having our teams go to Hawaii a few times. We’re also looking at some other bowls. And we’re definitely serious about starting our own bowl and have looked at the South Florida market. We’ll have a wide range of good opponents and good locations. I think we’ll be playing the Southeastern Conference, the Big 12, Atlantic Coast Conference and we’re looking at games possibly involving a Pac-12 team and some of the other conferences like C-USA and possibly Mountain West. Remember we have very good chance to be playing on New Year’s Day or New Year’s Eve with our champion in one of the playoff system bowls. We hope obviously that we will be competing for one of four playoff spots, but even if we don’t make that if we are the highest ranked conference of the so-called group of five – C-USA, Mountain West, Sun Belt and Mid-American – we would play in a New Year’s Day bowl against a high-profile opponent. We think we have a real chance to do that most years

Source?

(06-27-2013 11:21 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(06-27-2013 11:14 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Q: What’s the latest on the conference’s bowl agreements? Any chance for the American to play a bowl in Texas?

A: We’re definitely in the mix for one of the bowls in Dallas/Fort Worth. We’re looking at the Liberty Bowl, which has the Big 12 on one side. I think we’ll be playing the Big 12 in a couple of our bowls. We’re looking at renewing our games in Birmingham, Ala. (BBVA Compass Bowl), St. Petersburg, Fla. (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl) and possibly having our teams go to Hawaii a few times. We’re also looking at some other bowls. And we’re definitely serious about starting our own bowl and have looked at the South Florida market. We’ll have a wide range of good opponents and good locations. I think we’ll be playing the Southeastern Conference, the Big 12, Atlantic Coast Conference and we’re looking at games possibly involving a Pac-12 team and some of the other conferences like C-USA and possibly Mountain West. Remember we have very good chance to be playing on New Year’s Day or New Year’s Eve with our champion in one of the playoff system bowls. We hope obviously that we will be competing for one of four playoff spots, but even if we don’t make that if we are the highest ranked conference of the so-called group of five – C-USA, Mountain West, Sun Belt and Mid-American – we would play in a New Year’s Day bowl against a high-profile opponent. We think we have a real chance to do that most years

Source?

The Houston Chronicle.

(06-27-2013 11:21 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(06-27-2013 11:14 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Q: What’s the latest on the conference’s bowl agreements? Any chance for the American to play a bowl in Texas?

A: We’re definitely in the mix for one of the bowls in Dallas/Fort Worth. We’re looking at the Liberty Bowl, which has the Big 12 on one side. I think we’ll be playing the Big 12 in a couple of our bowls. We’re looking at renewing our games in Birmingham, Ala. (BBVA Compass Bowl), St. Petersburg, Fla. (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl) and possibly having our teams go to Hawaii a few times. We’re also looking at some other bowls. And we’re definitely serious about starting our own bowl and have looked at the South Florida market. We’ll have a wide range of good opponents and good locations. I think we’ll be playing the Southeastern Conference, the Big 12, Atlantic Coast Conference and we’re looking at games possibly involving a Pac-12 team and some of the other conferences like C-USA and possibly Mountain West. Remember we have very good chance to be playing on New Year’s Day or New Year’s Eve with our champion in one of the playoff system bowls. We hope obviously that we will be competing for one of four playoff spots, but even if we don’t make that if we are the highest ranked conference of the so-called group of five – C-USA, Mountain West, Sun Belt and Mid-American – we would play in a New Year’s Day bowl against a high-profile opponent. We think we have a real chance to do that most years

Source?

Scroll up and see my last post.

(06-27-2013 08:25 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(06-27-2013 07:41 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  We may end up with some kind of Liberty tie-in, but if we do it's because a P5 didn't want to commit fully to it, not because of Memphis.

(1) The Liberty bowl will not turn it's back on UofM's conference

(2) Go ahead and believe whatever you wish

OK, just in case this ends up being an "I told you so" situation, I need to know something: If the LB ends up with Big 12 vs a rotating cast of SEC, ACC, and AAC, with each conference placing a team in the bowl once every three years, does that count as "not turning its back" on the AAC?

(06-27-2013 06:31 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-27-2013 08:25 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(06-27-2013 07:41 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  We may end up with some kind of Liberty tie-in, but if we do it's because a P5 didn't want to commit fully to it, not because of Memphis.

(1) The Liberty bowl will not turn it's back on UofM's conference

(2) Go ahead and believe whatever you wish

OK, just in case this ends up being an "I told you so" situation, I need to know something: If the LB ends up with Big 12 vs a rotating cast of SEC, ACC, and AAC, with each conference placing a team in the bowl once every three years, does that count as "not turning its back" on the AAC?

If you end up playing their #8, #9, #10 teams then no. It just means they ran out of options after they got the stuff they really wanted.

(06-27-2013 06:31 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  [OK, just in case this ends up being an "I told you so" situation, I need to know something: If the LB ends up with Big 12 vs a rotating cast of SEC, ACC, and AAC, with each conference placing a team in the bowl once every three years, does that count as "not turning its back" on the AAC?

Another example of simplistic black & white thinking. The correct answer is that it is a linear function in which partial affiliation is partially turning their back. In polar coordinates, we might say that if the AAC is only invited half the time, then the Liberty Bowl turned their back 90 degrees instead of 180 degrees. Hope that helps.

(06-28-2013 12:50 PM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(06-27-2013 06:31 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  [OK, just in case this ends up being an "I told you so" situation, I need to know something: If the LB ends up with Big 12 vs a rotating cast of SEC, ACC, and AAC, with each conference placing a team in the bowl once every three years, does that count as "not turning its back" on the AAC?

Another example of simplistic black & white thinking. The correct answer is that it is a linear function in which partial affiliation is partially turning their back. In polar coordinates, we might say that if the AAC is only invited half the time, then the Liberty Bowl turned their back 90 degrees instead of 180 degrees. Hope that helps.

Well, if the strategy is, "Memphis Tigers fans will go ape**** on the Liberty Bowl if the LB turns their back on the AAC", then it pretty much has to be a simplistic, black-and-white thing. Either the Liberty Bowl stuck with UM, or the Liberty Bowl dumped UM for a power-conference matchup. There's no such thing as a half-betrayal.