If the AAC is raided and loses 2-3 of their strongest programs, is that conference a desirable landing spot for a Sun Belt program anymore? Sure they have a better TV deal now, but how does that deal look in a couple of years? I’d say the AAC leadership appears to be head and shoulders above that o...

If the AAC is raided and loses 2-3 of their strongest programs, is that conference a desirable landing spot for a Sun Belt program anymore? Sure they have a better TV deal now, but how does that deal look in a couple of years? I’d say the AAC leadership appears to be head and shoulders above that o...

https://sunbeltsports.org/news/2021/7/22/general-sun-belt-espn-expand-media-rights-partnership.aspx NEW ORLEANS — Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill announced during his annual State of the Conference on Thursday that the conference has extended its media rights deal with ESPN. The deal now runs thro...

If the AAC is raided and loses 2-3 of their strongest programs, is that conference a desirable landing spot for a Sun Belt program anymore? Sure they have a better TV deal now, but how does that deal look in a couple of years? I’d say the AAC leadership appears to be head and shoulders above that o...

My knee jerk thoughts, with absolutely no evidence to back them up was... Would BYU seek to join the Big12? Maybe the Big12 takes a shot at Houston and SMU to replace OU and Texas. Its obviously not ideal for them but that would keep their somewhat regional conference geographically close. I think t...

Jee-SUS! Talk about a lack of respect for what we have accomplished over many years as a program! Meanwhile The Chickens put together ONE good season in their entire existence and these clowns fall all over themselves anointing them God’s gift to football. I was in Vegas this week and spent a littl...

I had a good conversation with Joe Broback, the author of this poll, on Twitter (mostly through PM) and his biggest reason for our ranking was Chase Brice is a new and unproven QB in our system, which is a fair. I do think he is drastically undervaluing our RB room and I don't think knows the name C...

CCU has the best x's and o's coach in the SBC. CCU doesn't have the overall talent and depth App and ULL have, but he outcoached both last year. What is lost about last year is the distinct advantage that CCU had over most of their conference brethren. They were allowed back on campus in early June...

You're good, I promise. Marc Ryan does kind of get a little heavy handed with his praise. But it's the first time we've ever interviewed Jamey Chadwell, so he might've laid it on a little thick to ingratiate ourselves. He's gone after South Carolina pretty hard and rubbed them the wrong way. As far...

here's the full length. He dropped some bombs. https://omny.fm/shows/offsides-with-marc-ryan/inside-the-mind-of-the-chanticleers-head-coach-jam Thanks for sharing. Some of those questions were kind of leading. I get the "America's Team" thing because they were kind of the darlings last year (even t...

here's the full length. He dropped some bombs. https://omny.fm/shows/offsides-with-marc-ryan/inside-the-mind-of-the-chanticleers-head-coach-jam Thanks for sharing. Some of those questions were kind of leading. I get the "America's Team" thing because they were kind of the darlings last year (even t...

I'm looking at opportunities. You're looking at road blocks. But you do you. Fair enough. I will say that I think our best shot (and maybe only shot) is for the Pac12 Champ to have 3 losses and for Boise to stumble as well. App needs to handle our business and pull extremely hard for Oregon, Utah, ...

When you say “we” have a clearly defined path, who is this we? Unless App finishes undefeated with P5 wins and the AAC Champ has 2-3 regular season losses then I’m not at all sure there’s a clearly defined path, don’t have to look back further than 2019 to see that’s the case. Also, why shouldn’t w...

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Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:55 pm

If they aren’t taking all 10 conference champs, then why change anything?

More "Playoff" games means more eyeballs and more money for the same top tier teams. Unfortunately, that's basically what it comes down too.

I am not nearly as pessimistic as some on this board. I see a path and that is a hell of a lot more than I saw just a few days ago and certainly more than anyone expected when we made the jump to FBS. I believe that App State can be one of the 6 highest ranked conference champs, and if we are then ...

ESPN reports that committee recommended 12 teams 6 of the highest rated conference champions and 6 selected from the committee. No limit from any one conference and no automatic qualifiers. Probably as good as you could have hoped for….. but still has to be approved. The whole "6 of the highest rat...

I was perusing some win total projections of the Sun Belt teams and I noticed one site had App at nine. But it got me to looking at the other team's non conference opponents and I must say, most every Sun Belt team is challenging themselves in the non-conference. LaLa opens at Texas, Ohio and Liber...

I was perusing some win total projections of the Sun Belt teams and I noticed one site had App at nine. But it got me to looking at the other team's non conference opponents and I must say, most every Sun Belt team is challenging themselves in the non-conference. LaLa opens at Texas, Ohio and Liber...

I do not understand why anyone would want to be in the AAC, when you would have the same situation that we are in with the Sunbelt, with a bunch of teams we do not know. When what we really need is to be in a regional conference that students can road trip to while in college. Why chase the rainbow...

I could get behind a playoff with AQ for the P5 and AAC (P6?) and a 7th AQ for the best of the other 4. Though my preferred playoff would be a 14 team playoff with 10 AQ with play-in games for the bottom four seeds and double byes for the top 4. For what it’s worth, in this scenario: UAB (6-3) Ball...