The AAAAAAAC and Advanced Marketing (or Self-Kidding)

[powerofX]

Can't be power playing championship football at home sites and championship hoops with no attendance...no matter how good a PowerPoint

[ammtd34]

I hate stuff like this:

"Encourage Student Athlete Advisory Committee representatives to develop and present ideas for Conference-wide initiatives that address the particular desires, concerns, and needs of their student-athlete peers."

That's literally what SAAC's are. So a goal of the conference is to define SAAC's to their SAAC's?

[GoMuskies]

Can't be power playing championship football at home sites and championship hoops with no attendance...no matter how good a PowerPoint

The Pac-12 plays their championship football game at home sites. All the power conferences do pretty well filling up the conference tournaments, though (other than the SEC when Kentucky loses early).

Ah, I see that the Pac-12 actually started playing the championship game at the 49ers new stadium a few years ago.

But I DO think playing it at one of the participants' homes beats the hell out of this (though the ACC has cleaned it up a bit of late...mostly because the right teams have been in it):

[xubrew]

I really don't give a shit.

I can't knock a league for collectively wanting to make itself better, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of a specific action plan on how to do that. Just a bunch of generic goals. But...whatever.

I do think that the addition of Wichita State does make the league better, but it's not going to be in the same category as the Power 5 unless it earns autonomy, which it probably won't.

[Masterofreality]

The AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC is kidding itself. In 2016, the league went 6-12 vs Power 5 schools with wins over a rogues gallery of schools like Kansas, NC State, Syracuse and Virginia. The only decent team that an AAAAAAAAAAAAC school beat was Oklahoma. Worse yet, In 2014-15, Houston gave $26 million to its athletic department, the seventh-highest subsidy in the nation, according to USA Today's most recent athletic revenue database. Subsidies accounted for 58 percent of Houston's athletic revenue; subsidies for public Big 12 schools ranged from zero to eight percent.

They have a lousy TV deal and draw nobody. Good luck making the money add up.