Re: Conference realignment thread v. 2016
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:31 am
Xavier4036 wrote:stever20 wrote:
I just feel like folks here think they are far worse than they really are. I mean, we've never seen a year yet where all their top teams are firing the same year. Year 1 UConn and Cincy were good, Memphis was ok. Temple was awful. Then next year Temple was better, but UConn wasn't good at all. Last year, Temple and UConn were both pretty good, along with Cincy- but Memphis fell off. Just realistically, they've been a fairly good conference, even with everyone not firing at the same time. Folks here want to talk about them like they're the MAAC or something like that. I just don't think that's realistic.
I like more competition for the P5. Always have.
Stever has certainly been much less of a troll this year than in the past (maybe because we know have sactowndog among us)....
But Stever ALWAYS gives the American the benefit of the doubt - and portrays that conference or the NCAA prospects in the rosiest of glasses, while taking the exact opposite approach for the Big East. It is peculiar for an alleged fan of a Big East school.
The fact is the American is closer to the Ivy League or Patriot than they are to the Big East, statistically speaking. The American is an OK basketball conference with a couple of very good teams each year but the Big East and AAC are just in totally different levels when it comes to leagues for basketball, and it isn't close. The AAC would rarely be discussed on here if it were not for Stever somehow managing to bring it up in every thread.
AAC is closer to the Ivy or Patriot?
Come on now. That's the absurd crap that I'm talking about. Just look at the final projected RPI's.....
Big East projected end of season RPI- .5718
AAC projected end of season RPI- .5286
Ivy projected end of season RPI- .4756
Patriot projected end of season RPI- .4751
gap between BE and AAC is .0432
gap between AAC and Ivy is .0530
to further illustrate...
Pac 12 projected end of season RPI .5500
gap between Big East and Pac 12 is .0218
gap between Pac 12 and AAC is .0214