(09-22-2023 04:29 PM)seurat92 Wrote: (09-22-2023 10:49 AM)Starfox207 Wrote: In the end, I guess my hands are up. I am so unbelievably sick and tired of people trashing on our schools and our conference. We allow so many trolls on here to smack talk, and see things like " AAC is not attractive, No one wants these schools, mistakes were made, there will be no competition." I get it, these are the things you have got to say if you are not in The American.
Let me be one of the first to say, I have made some communication against the AAC Line on the last round, but I realize the stakes, and more importantly my mistakes. SMU was a valued conference member, do I turn around on them and throw shade if I percieve they are stealing an ECU spot in the ACC? I have to hope that they are a Yes vote if ACC crashes. I have to believe the positive here.
I apologize for the things I have thought and wrote about any of these new members, and I will go one step further and also to the Sun belt, because I do value Marshall and USM highly. Again, I value App St, but from a student there as a freshman, I know they have a ceiling, and i do not like ceilings with regard to potential being capped.
I think we have ALOT to offer the world, I think this group of schools we have is worth signing a GOR for, and worthy of excitement. I am sorry for making anyone here now feel like they are not worth of being an Autonomous school or Power Conference. I am just sick and tired of bashing on this conference. We are going to take some losses this year, ECU is already terrible, but I believe in the futures of UNT, UTSA, UAB, FAU, Charlotte, Rice, Army, and the AAC Remainers. I love our brand, our Conference Logo, and growing in my enjoyment of our Conference makeup. Maybe I just believe the media and marketing too much, I could fall into that trap. But I just feel this entire site is extremely anti AAC. And whatever this relegation is, it is beneath all of us. Good Luck to us all.
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Man....you went off up there. In both posts. I read it all. Very good posts actually.
I hate to harp on this again but the reason you and others are so despondent over this conf is all directly linked to the head guy.
Here's what you said in your 1st long post...
"According to the Associated Press Article on it, Aresco is not a fan of relegation, and I am glad he put it out there. He is also going to fight against any changes to the 6 champion slots for new playoff.
Regardless of what happens, just happy to see someone out there communicating these things. It take a lot of courage and bravery to go against injustice".
You have got to be kidding!
Aresco not in favor of relegation is a MISTAKE....AGAIN!
That he doesn't entertain that notion is typical and naive. Even I can imagine an SBC and ACC thing like that happening. I can certainly see the SBC and C-USA pondering this after the PAC does it.
Btw......the AAC and the PAC would be talking and doing this right now if Aresco got BSU, AFA, Colo St and SDSU which all wanted to and were coming and then did not. Would be a great position to be in for the AAC right now. Would be in that position THIS yr if the guy had any foresight.
That's why it's typical he poo-poo'd the relegation proposal..
Seurat, I appreciate you.
The specific reason I am expressing my appreciation for you here, is the time you took out of your day to read my thoughts. Not a lot of people take the time to do that, and just have an agenda and don’t care at all.
Upward mobility and movement sounds enticing enough but 2nd class citizens shouldn’t have to do that, do you follow? Where is relegation in the sec or ACC or big12. To the big10? It is way too early for The American to even consider this proposal, just to benefit schools that do not have similar value. This inclusion theory your read, read again. Boise is only including central time zones and some subset of western teams?
I desire and appreciate a conference that is first class through and through, and The American represents that. We have an academic consortium and symposium and we have adopted the autonomous rules. We will break the glass season, and it’s always the darkest before the light. Take that for what it is, even in the world today.
I appreciate my conference mates because membership is not a revolving door. It’s rivalry games, it’s shared similar interests. It’s about adding value beyond ourselves and you can’t foster any close partnerships membership is constantly changing. I don’t want to be tossed around between tiered conferences. The American matters and we built this over years. I love the history of this conference and the trials we have been through. Trials in our lives are great opportunities to overcome and become stronger and teach us lessons.
I am for equality and fairness and goodness. Nothing is going to stop be from chasing those pillars, and I believe this relegation model does not represent our goals.
And again to reiterate : we can do this whenever right? PAC 2 are going to be taken care of. They are a distraction, there is no PAC vehicle, atleast how I see it. They will be gone into a p4. This is about the MWC and the AAC.
The American shouldn’t back down from our plight just because 2 random schools are scared of being left behind and Boise wants to create inequality.
We don’t do that here in The American. We are a professional organization and handle matters much better that what you are seeing in the PAC or cusa. We don’t lose schools to the G4, and the ones we lost we made them better to move on.
At this point i am rambling. I hope somewhere in there is a coherent thought. Army can’t come soon enough, it’s just been an exhausting realignment season and actual football season. This Pirate is losing his mind, and just have to call them as I see them now I suppose.
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OT: PAC 2/ MWC Explore Merger with Relegation
