Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[GoBulls84]

Isn't CUSA getting paid like $700K a year? If the AAC wanted to take a CUSA team (assuming we still have a $7M a year payout), it wouldn't be that cost prohibitive to buy out $3.5-4.2M in GOR

[Bull Matrix]

[DontPushMe]

16 minutes ago, Bull Matrix said:

Ugh please no to the 11 aac teams. There's only 3-5 aac teams at most that aren't a complete embarrassment to be associated with. Need to get out of this **** hole conference ASAP. 

[flsportsfan83]

17 minutes ago, Bull Matrix said:

this clown knows nothing more than any of us. 

Just now, DontPushMe said:

Ugh please no to the 11 aac teams. There's only 3-5 aac teams at most that aren't a complete embarrassment to be associated with. Need to get out of this **** hole conference ASAP. 

agreed only way a merger works for me. Is take the 4PAC 4-6 from AAC and MWC. Get the best of the rest and put em all together. 

[SilverBull]

3 minutes ago, flsportsfan83 said:

agreed only way a merger works for me. Is take the 4PAC 4-6 from AAC and MWC. Get the best of the rest and put em all together. 

But what if we are not in that 4-6 from the AAC?  At this point, I think our answer to almost anything that links us to any of the Pac 4 is "Yes please."

[Bull Matrix]

Looks like there is some ACC news out there….

[Rocky Style]

Haven't checked in a while.  Are we screwed?

[UCF_rustbucket]

1 hour ago, GoBulls84 said:

Isn't CUSA getting paid like $700K a year? If the AAC wanted to take a CUSA team (assuming we still have a $7M a year payout), it wouldn't be that cost prohibitive to buy out $3.5-4.2M in GOR

In theory. But look at the current CUSA lineup. Not very exciting. If the AAC has to raid from there, it means they just got raided themselves. Aresco somehow hung onto the $7M per team per year deal after losing UConn, Cincy, UCF, and Houston. If the AAC loses another 4, say SMU, USF, Tulane, and Memphis or Rice, I can't see the $7M still holding. What's left should still be higher than CUSA but now you may be down to like $2M to $3M a year at best.

[flsportsfan83]

28 minutes ago, SilverBull said:

But what if we are not in that 4-6 from the AAC?  At this point, I think our answer to almost anything that links us to any of the Pac 4 is "Yes please."

if its the PAC 4, yes. If its the PAC 2 with CAl and Stanford to the ACC, I may cool my jets. 

[John Lewis]

2 hours ago, Triple B said:

How many were we allowed before then?

Have to go back and look as I am not sure how many we took prior to entering the Big East.

Anthony Henry is a good example of a partial qualifier who was able to get his degree in the required time period.

@Mike Stuben may remember this, but I believe our academic support staff was pretty close to 100% in having partial qualifiers graduate on time.