American Athletic Conference

[ShockerPrez]

I havent really looked, but if anyone knows, now that its all put to bed, I would love to know all the behind the scenes cloak and dagger stuff that took place in our move.

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

I havent really looked, but if anyone knows, now that its all put to bed, I would love to know all the behind the scenes cloak and dagger stuff that took place in our move.

One of the tidbits I found most interesting so far was from ADDB's interview with Mike Kennedy before the baseball game. Since most schools' travel budgets for next school year were already set, we offered to reimburse the rest of the conference for some travel expenses so we could make the move immediately. That's some badass "makin' **** happen" stuff right there.

[Ricardo del Rio]

Another great article by Sully. http://www.kansas.com/sports/college...143550254.html

Hopefully with Lutz retired, the Eagle allows Sully to spread his wings and do more editorial content like this instead of just beat reporting.

I agree. I thought this was one of his best articles, all time.

[ShockingButTrue]

I too had to do a double take when reading the article and look at the top to see who wrote once I read the first opinion within it. Sully is just a flat out great writer. In 20 yrs he could be regarded in similar status as Kennedy for our program.

[TulsaForever]

Some behind the scenes tidbits in here:https://www.si.com/college-basketbal...ow_facebook_si

[im4wsu]

Comparison of AAC with MVC (minus WSU) from Haslametrics.com team fingerprint:

Conf	AAC	MVC	WSU
1-50	15-56	2-33	1-4
51-100	35-46	2-27	4-1
101-150	34-25	17-18	3-0
151-200	33-26	46-44	11-0
201-250	25-9	34-18	7-0
251-300	27-6	21-7	3-0
301+	27-3	7-2	2-0
Pace	68.13	68.57	68.17
SOS	0.604	0.553	0.555
Record Quality	0.124	-0.007	0.416
Avg Season Rank	119.331	162.266	16.140
All-Play %	0.66	0.52	0.986

Pretty informative comparison. The all-play% is the expected W/L against all other Div 1 teams on a neutral site.

[Kung Wu]

Do we still have to suckle on Cox's teet, in order to watch games at home?

[Shocker Mama]

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article115389558.html

So -- If KSU comes to Intrust to play Tulsa, do we show up in our Shocker gear to yell for Tulsa, our new conference mate?

[another shocker]

[QUOTE=Shocker Mama;727769][url]http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big

oh, hell yeah.

[shockerfan]

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/col...115389558.html

So -- If KSU comes to Intrust to play Tulsa, do we show up in our Shocker gear to yell for Tulsa, our new conference mate?

Sure. Who wants to start the "AAC" chants?

[ShockerFever]

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/col...115389558.html

So -- If KSU comes to Intrust to play Tulsa, do we show up in our Shocker gear to yell for Tulsa, our new conference mate?

So K-State will play Tulsa in a series in Wichita, but won't play WSU?

What a bunch of p*****.

[Shocker Mama]

So K-State will play Tulsa in a series in Wichita, but won't play WSU?

What a bunch of p*****.

That is exactly what I thought when I heard about it a while back.

[ShockerPrez]

Mid major.

[wheathead]

I just had lunch with someone in the athletic department. I asked him, "so how's life within the AAC?" He immediately replied, "don't use the term 'AAC'" I asked why not and he explained that they had been doing some research on the conference as a whole and found that the conference wants to be known as "The American" or "The American Conference" but not "AAC." He said many members don't want even the slightest possibility of being confused with the ACC. He also said, "We are The American, we are our own thing." I thought this was really interesting.

[wheathead]

I also found it interesting that this thread is getting close to hitting 1 million views.