Why Rice to the AAC?

[Million$Mullet]

Yet, they beat our asses and took our lunch money, despite the fact that when you looked at our sideline vs theirs, we were the more obvious bigger and more athletic.

And we won the turnover battle 3 to 1.

146 yards rushing vs 61.
303 yards passing vs 114.
They went 6-6 in the red zone.

Rice wanted it way more than us, and viewing both sidelines from the stands, that was very obvious.

Yes they did. No argument here.

[CajunVic]

Don't hate the player ...hate the game...I just went step by step...but, you are correct

Hate is something other posters have here . . . I love my university, it’s players and it’s coaches . . .

[Turbine]

Hate is something other posters have here . . . I love my university, it’s players and it’s coaches . . .

Enablers have to eat too.

[CajunVic]

Enablers have to eat too.

. . . Cheese . . . lots of cheese . . .

[CajunEXPRESS]

Years ago, I was one of the few here who thought it was a great idea to bring in the likes of Georgia Southern and App State. Some only saw "FCS small market". I saw unlimited potential and passion.

The reason we were able to bring in USM and Marshall now is because we did the right thing back then and quit chasing markets.

The AAC is going to learn this lesson in the coming years while we will continue building. There will come a point in time where we will be cherry picking the AAC. I want SMU, Memphis, Tulane and ECU.

UTSA brings a passionate fan base, and reasonably large tv market. Certainly in line with most of the SBC teams. UAB also because they escaped Bama destruction. Charlotte nothing, Rice nothing, North Texas maybe, Florida Atlantic becoming more successful with both football and basketball.

The SBC absolutely won this round compared with AAC& DOA CUSA. Weakest add is ODU.

[CajunEXPRESS]

A USM friend sent the link to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/CloverleafMall/s...esWINvSog&s=19

My response:

"Oh, you mean like Tuscaloosa or Clemson?"

From my limited understanding, TV drives conference revenues. If a conference is looking at anything except those numbers, they would seem to be making a mistake.

I’m not sure about your point. Certainly schools bring eyes to their conference, some in mega markets LA, and some in Tuscaloosa, Oxford. Does Tulane get more metro NOLA tv eyes than UL Acadiana eyes. I’d bet it’s close.

[Cajunsmike]

At one time the Cajuns had better TV ratings in New Orleans than Tulane did. That of course was not the case in 2022, a special year for the Wave

[R1Letterman]

Yet, they beat our asses and took our lunch money, despite the fact that when you looked at our sideline vs theirs, we were the more obvious bigger and more athletic.

And we won the turnover battle 3 to 1.

146 yards rushing vs 61.
303 yards passing vs 114.
They went 6-6 in the red zone.

Rice wanted it way more than us, and viewing both sidelines from the stands, that was very obvious.

When hud was here didn't we lead the nation in red zone conversion pct

[HoustonCajun]

Years ago, I was one of the few here who thought it was a great idea to bring in the likes of Georgia Southern and App State. Some only saw "FCS small market". I saw unlimited potential and passion.

The reason we were able to bring in USM and Marshall now is because we did the right thing back then and quit chasing markets.

The AAC is going to learn this lesson in the coming years while we will continue building. There will come a point in time where we will be cherry picking the AAC. I want SMU, Memphis, Tulane and ECU.

Interestingly, under the AAC large market only conference configuration, there are a lot of P5 schools that are in small markets that wouldn't otherwise be considered today.