Why Rice to the AAC?

[R1Letterman]

Are Tulsa, OK and Greenville, NC major media markets?

[CajunVic]

Schlitz was and will always be good . . .

[fanof71]

No Major market normally indicates top 10 up to top 20 market...both are top ,100

Instead of coming here to ask, Google Nielsen market rank...again, this is not WikiCajun

[fanof71]

Schlitz was and will always be good . . .

With salt sprinkled on the top of the can..munie golf style

[R1Letterman]

Do I also need to Google is 103 in the top 100?

[fanof71]

Do I also need to Google is 103 in the top 100?

I was in TV sales and management for 35 years, markets change rankings all the time...and I knew what a major market is. You on the other hand bloviate questions without thinking...Turbine, can you shut this bishop?

[R1Letterman]

Shut this bishop, I like that...

If I had such a wealth of knowledge in a topic that would help the Cajuns grow their brand and status on the sports landscape, I would share that info willingly and happily with the Cajun faithful and administration. Or would I begrudge anyone who dares inquire and keep the program held back. I see your answer, no need to google.

[R1Letterman]

I found an excellent quotation by Steve McConnell on page 832 of his 2004 book, Code Complete:

“The bottom line on experience is this: if you work for 10 years, do you get 10 years of experience or do you get 1 year of experience 10 times? You have to reflect on your activities to get true experience. If you make learning a continuous commitment, you’ll get experience. If you don’t, you won’t, no matter how many years you have under your belt.”

But it goes back much further. I found another version by W. F. McMullen in an article titled Engineering Education - Have We a Problem? which appeared in the January 1962 of the Engineering Journal (from Canada) on page 54:

“It is the obligation of industry to provide the climate for growth, and where necessary, the tools. Experience alone is not necessarily the best teacher; it is the slowest and very likely the most expensive. Ten years of experience is not too valuable if it is one year of experience repeated 10 times.”

What matters is to not be just coasting, running on cruise-control, or going through the motions. I remember an example from over two decades ago, where our just doing a “same as last time” failed misearably

[fanof71]

Shut this bishop, I like that...

If I had such a wealth of knowledge in a topic that would help the Cajuns grow their brand and status on the sports landscape, I would share that info willingly and happily with the Cajun faithful and administration. Or would I begrudge anyone who dares inquire and keep the program held back. I see your answer, no need to google.

How do you know that I haven't...

Oh..as today we celebrate our freedom, you have to know, my experience, ideas, and input opinion is not free, they would have to pay to play...

[CajunRebel]

I’ve been 100% wrong on conference realignment predictions, but I predicted the AAC’s choices almost perfectly. I used two criteria:

1. Big media markets
2. Travel partners

Media markets still matter and that’s always been the focus of the AAC. And with a huge decrease in TV money on the horizon from losing UCF, Cinci, UH, (and maybe SMU and Memphis in the future,) the AAC needed to pick schools that reduced travel costs.

Rice is there because they fit 1 & 2. They are in a huge market and they can be travel partners with UTSA.

The only prediction I missed was that I said they’d find a travel partner for Tulane — either UL, La Tech, USM, or USA. But none of those schools fit #1 so I should have known better.

[Turbine]

Advertisers are the ones who get the short end of the stick with cookie cutter decisions like this.

[CajunVic]

. . . don’t ever short the thrill associated with eating the cookie . . .