Not good news at all.

Complete disaster for this league

(07-23-2013 08:19 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Not good news at all.

Complete disaster for this league

SEC already had a spot with the Liberty so how is this any different?

How is it gone? He said shared if anything.

This was probably the link he was trying to post...

https://twitter.com/McMurphyESPN/status/...9969567745

(07-23-2013 08:22 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(07-23-2013 08:19 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Not good news at all.

Complete disaster for this league

SEC already had a spot with the Liberty so how is this any different?

It's officially SEC vs B12. The SEC included the Liberty in the pool with the Belk and Music City and the B12 already signed a deal a while back with that bowl. It's gone and now it appears any hope of a legit bowl for the champ of this league is gone as well.

(07-23-2013 08:23 AM)Geotag Wrote:  How is it gone? He said shared if anything.

Shared in the sense that the Liberty is in a shared range of selections with other SEC bowl games, not that the SEC will share the Liberty with other conferences.

@McMurphyESPN
With Liberty aligning with Big 12 & SEC, American now must find another bowl to place its champion

And it's time to bump all the Fire Aresco threads.

I am not too worried about this. Once again bowl games are exhibitions anyway. It not like this conference isn't going to have enough bowl games for its teams.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN 18m
With Liberty aligning with Big 12 & SEC, American now must find another bowl to place its champion

(07-23-2013 08:24 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(07-23-2013 08:22 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(07-23-2013 08:19 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Not good news at all.

Complete disaster for this league

SEC already had a spot with the Liberty so how is this any different?

It's officially SEC vs B12. The SEC included the Liberty in the pool with the Belk and Music City and the B12 already signed a deal a while back with that bowl. It's gone and now it appears any hope of a legit bowl for the champ of this league is gone as well.

I don't get how with the AAC having Memphis along with UCF, ECU, and Tulsa usually making strong appearances when going that we would lose out completely on the Liberty Bowl.

(07-23-2013 08:34 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(07-23-2013 08:24 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(07-23-2013 08:22 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(07-23-2013 08:19 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Not good news at all.

Complete disaster for this league

SEC already had a spot with the Liberty so how is this any different?

It's officially SEC vs B12. The SEC included the Liberty in the pool with the Belk and Music City and the B12 already signed a deal a while back with that bowl. It's gone and now it appears any hope of a legit bowl for the champ of this league is gone as well.

I don't get how with the AAC having Memphis along with UCF, ECU, and Tulsa usually making strong appearances when going that we would lose out completely on the Liberty Bowl.

Well according to McJackass it just happened. I may hate the guy and believe he has obvious anti-AAC and specifically anti-USF bias, but when he reports something it's right.

(07-23-2013 08:22 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  SEC already had a spot with the Liberty so how is this any different?

It's different only in that we were assured by many (not all, but many) Memphis fans that the Liberty would never, ever, turn its back on Memphis and its conference, despite overwhelming historical and present-day evidence that the Liberty cares about the SEC more than anything else.

(07-23-2013 08:30 AM)bearcatlawjd Wrote:  I am not too worried about this. Once again bowl games are exhibitions anyway. It not like this conference isn't going to have enough bowl games for its teams.

It's a question of prominence, not volume. The American has now lost its most prominent postseason showcase outside of the New Year's Six.

Where's GreyAvenger when you need him?

Queue the meltdowns..... OH, blondjons is on it.

(07-23-2013 08:34 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  I don't get how with the AAC having Memphis along with UCF, ECU, and Tulsa usually making strong appearances when going that we would lose out completely on the Liberty Bowl.

Let's think about what you said. The AAC offers Tulsa, Memphis, UCF, and ECU.

The SEC offers Arkansas, Ole Miss, Missouri, LSU, Mississippi State, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Gee, that's a really tough one to figure out, eh?

(07-23-2013 08:37 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Where's GreyAvenger when you need him?

Queue the meltdowns..... OH, blondjons is on it.

Feel free to spell out the silver lining in this for the AAC. This was the last shot at a bowl that would be worthy of sending the champion to. This is officially time for the meltdown.

I'm guessing B12 moving in pushed this as sec basically shared liberty/compass before and seemed to even favor birmingham.

(07-23-2013 08:37 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Where's GreyAvenger when you need him?

Queue the meltdowns..

I feel bad for "Grey". He has stuck by the notion that the Liberty would not turn its back on Memphis for so long, since the day Memphis joined the Big East/AAC. I really wish he had been proven correct.

As for "meltdowns", no need. If this report is true it's just another Aresco failure. Throw it on the pile ...

(07-23-2013 08:40 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(07-23-2013 08:37 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Where's GreyAvenger when you need him?

Queue the meltdowns..... OH, blondjons is on it.

Feel free to spell out the silver lining in this for the AAC. This was the last shot at a bowl that would be worthy of sending the champion to. This is officially time for the meltdown.

Not really...