2021-22 Basketball happenings around the American Athletic!

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Oh, and factor in the radio broadcast rights and you have a sh¹toad of KU fans listening to basketball on the radio. Exactly zero dollars from the radio deal benefit any conference. That said, Kansas making good bank on the rights that they maintain does nothing to benefit any conference.

It's all about how much more valuable a conference will be with KU. In the end KU is a football revenue vacuum. And with football netting 70% of the TV package, it's a really tough sell. KU is only a sexy addition to KU fans. It's all about the pigskin.

It just takes the right coach and they can be good in a couple years.

2005

Mark Mangino

Fort Worth Bowl

Houston

W 42–13

2007

Mark Mangino

Orange Bowl

Virginia Tech

W 24–21

2008

Mark Mangino

Insight Bowl

Minnesota

W 42–21

[MoValley John]

It just takes the right coach and they can be good in a couple years.

2005

Mark Mangino

Fort Worth Bowl

Houston

W 42–13

2007

Mark Mangino

Orange Bowl

Virginia Tech

W 24–21

2008

Mark Mangino

Insight Bowl

Minnesota

W 42–21

They have until 2025. They better turn it around quickly.

[MoValley John]

Link. KU sold their third tier games and air on ESPN+.

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/article229074704.html

[Westward Onlooker]

Observations from Houston:

• AAC will rebound by getting good football from CCU, ULL, AppSt & Buffalo to and remain the "best of the rest" status with Memphis staying on board
• AAC will still have good basketball with Memphis continuing to get solid recruiting classes, Tulsa throwing in their random good seasons, and once the Shockers turn it around
• Please please please, just get a football team...
  • If not, BigEast is an obvious fit to be in a premier basketball conference with dedicated fanbase
• Please continue our tradition of wrecking SMU (assuming the Big12 vote passes)
• Thank you guy's for Freddy's Steakburgers

[Stickboy46]

Observations from Houston:

• AAC will rebound by getting good football from CCU, ULL, AppSt & Buffalo to and remain the "best of the rest" status with Memphis staying on board
• AAC will still have good basketball with Memphis continuing to get solid recruiting classes, Tulsa throwing in their random good seasons, and once the Shockers turn it around
• Please please please, just get a football team...
  • If not, BigEast is an obvious fit to be in a premier basketball conference with dedicated fanbase
• Please continue our tradition of wrecking SMU (assuming the Big12 vote passes)
• Thank you guy's for Freddy's Steakburgers

This bolded crap right here is exactly why Boatright should be begging the Big East at this point. If that's the backfill? That's absolutely God awful.

[DanielBryan]

American Valley Conference: 1-bid league coming soon!

[calfan]

Another article about possible AAC replacements:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/a-jersey-guy-aac-needs-more-southern-exposure/ar-AAOczs0?ocid=BingNewsSearch

[mattdalt]

It just takes the right coach and they can be good in a couple years.

2005

Mark Mangino

Fort Worth Bowl

Houston

W 42–13

2007

Mark Mangino

Orange Bowl

Virginia Tech

W 24–21

2008

Mark Mangino

Insight Bowl

Minnesota

W 42–21

And how many times in their history have they found the right coach?

[shock]

Narrator: "They weren't with Houston."

Except Houston is no longer being considered for B12

[DanielBryan]

Except Houston is no longer being considered for B12

yeah, it’s already official they’re joining. You’re in loser denial

[yesimaKUfan]

yeah, it’s already official they’re joining. You’re in loser denial

"Loser denial"? Even I wasn't that harsh. While not quite official it will be by the end of the week. https://abc13.com/university-of-hous...etic/11005713/

[DwShock]

This is all Shaqs fault

[shock]

What the hell? Two days ago it was reported that Houston wasn’t going to get an invite.

Oh well. Still better than the MVC. Collecting farts in a jar would be better than the MVC.

[WuTheOne]

It just takes the right coach and they can be good in a couple years.

2005

Mark Mangino

Fort Worth Bowl

Houston

W 42–13

2007

Mark Mangino

Orange Bowl

Virginia Tech

W 24–21

2008

Mark Mangino

Insight Bowl

Minnesota

W 42–21

When KU goes looking for an AD, Bill Self is on the search committee. The likelihood of finding "the right coach" in that situation approaches 0. "The right coach" does a bit of digging and sees that Mangino, the last successful coach, got fired and beame an assistant. After that it's been a career-ending job. "The right coach" isn't going to take that job. They got Miles because he had too much baggage for any halfway respectable program, and Miles couldn't win at KU.

[WuTheOne]

We're probably seeing the end of college athletics as we've known it all our lives. Million dollar NIL deals will happen. What's it going to take to get a top-150 type player? $20,000...$40,000? The schools with the big FB TV contracts can buy any player they want. They can stockpile their benches deep.

The SEC is emerging as so strong and so popular that they are going to get multiple TV slots for every weekend. The B1G will be right behind them. The PAC and ACC will be left fighting for a few time slots. The B12-2-2+4 is going to be so far behind in revenue that they won't have a chance to keep up with the big boys, and the AAC will be quite a ways behind them.

The divide between the rich schools and the poor schools is going to become enormous, and WSU is going to be buried pretty deeply in the latter category. AAC basketball isn't going to be a big TV payday with Cincy and Houston gone. Better money through the conference than was available in the MVC, but not enough to keep pace with the mid-tier and even the bottom feeders in the P4. The bottom feeders in the P4 are going to be floating in cash and they can use that cash to structure NIL deals.

Basketball tradition and history are out the window on the recruiting trail. NIL deals are going to rule the recruiting trail. Is a top-200 player going to take $20,000 or $40,000 to be a starter at WSU, or is he going to take $100,000 to be the last guy off the bench at Rutgers?

Turgeon had a tremendous challenge getting WSU out of their performance in the '90's. I wouldn't be surprised if IB's challenge is significantly higher. As Bill Snyder once said,"it's hard to get to the top. It's even harder to stay there". IB has a set of challenges no coach at WSU has ever faced.