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A few good chances for AAC teams today:

Temple @ Penn State
Virginia @ UConn
South Florida @ Syracuse
East Carolina @ South Carolina
Maryland @ Central Florida

UConn holds on
South Florida winning by 11 half way through 3rd
Stinks Temple couldn't pull through.
I think UCF has a decent chance of winning
Memphis and Tulsa winners too.
 
Should the American try to expand to 16 in football only? It would look better when the TV deal is up in a few years, the playoff will inevitably expand to 8 so you could argue for an auto bid, and the Big 12 put themselves on a path towards death. Step up and be proactive and make yourself a contender for being a Top 5 conference. Some combo of BYU, Boise, SDSU, Air Force, Rice, Colorado State, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois type schools.
 
Should the American try to expand to 16 in football only? It would look better when the TV deal is up in a few years, the playoff will inevitably expand to 8 so you could argue for an auto bid, and the Big 12 put themselves on a path towards death. Step up and be proactive and make yourself a contender for being a Top 5 conference. Some combo of BYU, Boise, SDSU, Air Force, Rice, Colorado State, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois type schools.

I think expansion to 16 wouldn't be a bad idea but the conference just got done expanding so I'm not sure they're going to be in a rush to do it again. Anyone hoping for BSU or SDST can cross that off their list immediately, BSU was committed to the American at one point and backed out and SDST told them to kick rocks before it ever got to that point. I don't think it would be wise for a conference that doesn't generate a ton of revenue to expand so far across the country. Northern Illinois would be a nice addition and maybe Appalachian State or NDST. Air Force maybe with the Navy connection?

I think any of those moves could be done and would make sense but the question is would it really add enough value to be worth it for anyone involved?
 
In my opinion, what the AAC needs to do, whenever their tv contract expires, is move to an alternative medium. Hulu, Netflix, shoot maybe even an HBO could be interested in moving into the live sporting events realm. The technology is available today. All you have to do is watch the NFL on twitter. They need to be the first to go in that direction and really stick it to ESPN and Fox since it is obvious they could give two ***** about the league or the premiere schools in the AAC.
 
In my opinion, what the AAC needs to do, whenever their tv contract expires, is move to an alternative medium. Hulu, Netflix, shoot maybe even an HBO could be interested in moving into the live sporting events realm. The technology is available today. All you have to do is watch the NFL on twitter. They need to be the first to go in that direction and really stick it to ESPN and Fox since it is obvious they could give two ***** about the league or the premiere schools in the AAC.

I would agree with expansion and going to another media outlet such as Netflix or Amazon prime.

Ideally I see the best fit for these content providers to be 1 over-sized conference that can provide content at various time slots and some national draw names. Potentially 20 members, divided into an east and west, with a 10 teams in each. For football this would result in a Championship game where neither team has seen each other that year. In basketball the conferences can act as separate entities until the conference tourney, which would again add to the drama of East vs West.

East:
UC, UConn, USF, UCF, Memphis, Navy, ECU, Temple, Tulane, NIU

West:
UH, SMU, BYU, BSU, Air Force, UNLV, SDSU, CSU, Tulsa, Fresno


AAC tv contracts open up in 2019.
 
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Much like the Big 12 there is no need to expand unless it will bring in additional revenue. The only non-P5 schools not in the AAC that have any value are BYU (they rather be independent then admit they are lesser than Utah) and possibly Army and Air Force

The American is fine as is. I don't get the obsession with expansion. The only thing I'd like to see is a non-football member to even basketball to 12. To me, Wichita State would be great for this. But again it comes down to if they will increase revenue.
 
Much like the Big 12 there is no need to expand unless it will bring in additional revenue. The only non-P5 schools not in the AAC that have any value are BYU (they rather be independent then admit they are lesser than Utah) and possibly Army and Air Force

The American is fine as is. I don't get the obsession with expansion. The only thing I'd like to see is a non-football member to even basketball to 12. To me, Wichita State would be great for this. But again it comes down to if they will increase revenue.

Make sense to me as well about expansion. If the Amweican added more teams, wouldn't that mean money has to be divided even further? That def doesn't seem like a good idea.
 
Make sense to me as well about expansion. If the Amweican added more teams, wouldn't that mean money has to be divided even further? That def doesn't seem like a good idea.

It would have to be once the TV contract is up. To hopefully increase the draw of the conference to other media outlets.
 
In my opinion, what the AAC needs to do, whenever their tv contract expires, is move to an alternative medium. Hulu, Netflix, shoot maybe even an HBO could be interested in moving into the live sporting events realm. The technology is available today. All you have to do is watch the NFL on twitter. They need to be the first to go in that direction and really stick it to ESPN and Fox since it is obvious they could give two ***** about the league or the premiere schools in the AAC.

I think it is a matter of time until this happens for some conference. If I could get access to any UC game through Netflix I would cancel my cable subscription in a second.
 
I would agree with expansion and going to another media outlet such as Netflix or Amazon prime.

Ideally I see the best fit for these content providers to be 1 over-sized conference that can provide content at various time slots and some national draw names. Potentially 20 members, divided into an east and west, with a 10 teams in each. For football this would result in a Championship game where neither team has seen each other that year. In basketball the conferences can act as separate entities until the conference tourney, which would again add to the drama of East vs West.

East:
UC, UConn, USF, UCF, Memphis, Navy, ECU, Temple, Tulane, NIU

West:
UH, SMU, BYU, BSU, Air Force, UNLV, SDSU, CSU, Tulsa, Fresno


AAC tv contracts open up in 2019.

Dude you need to pitch this idea to someone. Man that sounds cool
 
Dude you need to pitch this idea to someone. Man that sounds cool

The reality of what the American should do and what will actually do are 2 completely different things. The conference needs to differentiate themselves and understand they are not like the Power 5.

In reality, the conference will likely not expand and prepare themselves for streaming providers. Instead they will wait until the leftovers of the Big 12 negotiate a tv contract / P5 extension with tv partners to release OU/KU/Texas/OSU out of their GOR. Once this happens the new Big 12 expands by 6, and takes the best of the American away. The American will then back fill again, but lack any premier teams to make the conference as viable to Netflix/Amazon.
 
The reality of what the American should do and what will actually do are 2 completely different things. The conference needs to differentiate themselves and understand they are not like the Power 5.

In reality, the conference will likely not expand and prepare themselves for streaming providers. Instead they will wait until the leftovers of the Big 12 negotiate a tv contract / P5 extension with tv partners to release OU/KU/Texas/OSU out of their GOR. Once this happens the new Big 12 expands by 6, and takes the best of the American away. The American will then back fill again, but lack any premier teams to make the conference as viable to Netflix/Amazon.

I've seen a lot of references to streaming services becoming a major player in this whole thing. As someone in the business, I can tell you that while certain services have begun positioning themselves for this type of move, the benefits to conferences and member institutions are currently minimal. There will be an initial overpay to enter the market, but for the immediate future those services don't have nearly the saturation of the major providers, plus those providers rely on sports to maintain their increasingly tenuous grip on the market...and both professional and collegiate entities rely on that cash heavily. I'm not saying the Amazons and Netflixes of the world aren't going to get involved on some level...it's just a little premature to believe they're suddenly going to outbid ESPN, FOX and the regional sports networks and steal the business away overnight. Chances are better that they partner with one of the current players or negotiate some lower Tier rights, and then see where it goes. Interesting times to say the least.
 
I've seen a lot of references to streaming services becoming a major player in this whole thing. As someone in the business, I can tell you that while certain services have begun positioning themselves for this type of move, the benefits to conferences and member institutions are currently minimal. There will be an initial overpay to enter the market, but for the immediate future those services don't have nearly the saturation of the major providers, plus those providers rely on sports to maintain their increasingly tenuous grip on the market...and both professional and collegiate entities rely on that cash heavily. I'm not saying the Amazons and Netflixes of the world aren't going to get involved on some level...it's just a little premature to believe they're suddenly going to outbid ESPN, FOX and the regional sports networks and steal the business away overnight. Chances are better that they partner with one of the current players or negotiate some lower Tier rights, and then see where it goes. Interesting times to say the least.

You may be right and it is tough to say right now. I know the growing trend with Millennials is to ditch the TV providers and just pay for streaming services. I see this trend continuing to grow making streaming services all the more viable. In fact, AT&T is looking to eliminate set top boxes and satellite dishes over the next few years and move everyone to their new platform which will be a streaming DirecTV service. If I'm the AAC, and ESPN is basically paying us nothing for our rights, I would look into these services and try to be the first group of schools to go that way. Be the ones they "overpay" for as you put it.
 
I've seen a lot of references to streaming services becoming a major player in this whole thing. As someone in the business, I can tell you that while certain services have begun positioning themselves for this type of move, the benefits to conferences and member institutions are currently minimal. There will be an initial overpay to enter the market, but for the immediate future those services don't have nearly the saturation of the major providers, plus those providers rely on sports to maintain their increasingly tenuous grip on the market...and both professional and collegiate entities rely on that cash heavily. I'm not saying the Amazons and Netflixes of the world aren't going to get involved on some level...it's just a little premature to believe they're suddenly going to outbid ESPN, FOX and the regional sports networks and steal the business away overnight. Chances are better that they partner with one of the current players or negotiate some lower Tier rights, and then see where it goes. Interesting times to say the least.

Yeah because it's not like they just got done doing that with television shows or anything..
 


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