GumbyDamnit! wrote:stever20 wrote:I wasn't the one who every time the Big East gets someone posts stuff like a moderator here who said "5 Top 100 recruits and 6 on top 150 so far for Big East per Rivals. ZERO for AAC....just sayin.". Why do people here have to post that stuff? Can anyone please answer that. Don't want to be compared to them in the regular season but come recruiting time, it's game on.
They do it because you are by far the most frequent poster on a fan forum that you are not a fan of, and you sulk and cry when anything remotely negative gets written about your beloved AAC. I try to have objective debate with you but you can't help yourself. You are compelled to throw nonsense, uncorrelated, unsubstantiated and skewed data out there which simply cannot be defended objectively. When confronted with facts you move the goalposts.
I just showed you that the AAC has struggled with recruiting vs the top 6 conferences. You ignore it. The bottom line is that in terms of recruiting, conf RPI and KPI, March bids and Match success, the AAC and A10 are more alike than they are to the Top 6 confrerences. I guess that Stinggs. Sorry, but the data is clear and irrefutable. Temple, like UConn, was once national program who has undeniably taken a large step backwards since joininnthe AAC. You incredulously deny that it's happening. If you are not willing to admit to basic, undeniable truths then there is no point.
I think you are welcome here if you're ready to be honest. But if you and Crawfish and others think a BIG EAST fan forum is the place to promote how great the AAC is, and a place to troll responses with your snide jabs, I think you should move on. Here's a great idea. How about you moderate an AAC discussion board of your very own? Oh wait...you tried that and you found the AAC hoops scene to be less than enthusiastic about the subject matter. I completely understand that.
Here is the thing that I feel- the AAC was already performing stronger than the A10, even without Wichita. Even in the terms you brought-
recruiting-
AAC- just in 2017, they had 10 top 100 classes. A10- only 3(St Louis, VCU, Dayton)
Conference RPI- AAC was 7, A10 was 8 in '17
Tourney bids- AAC had 2(not including Wichita), A10 had 3
Tourney wins- AAC had 1(not including Wichita), A10 had 1
Now, the AAC adds a Wichita program that could easily go deep into March next year. Not only that benefit, but it also allows them to game the schedule to some degree, getting better teams SOS which will help their seeds out, and also allowing some of the lower teams to get pretty gaudy records in conference play- which may allow them into the tourney. Folks here want to act like Wichita won't have any impact on the AAC. How much/what impact do you think Wichita will have?
I'm sorry, but I don't think Temple and UConn are close to the same situation. Temple while they had made the tourney in 6 of the last 7 years before joining the AAC, had won only 2 games in the tourney. UConn had won the tourney 2 years before the breakup, and had a final 4 in 2009(so just in those 2 years that's 10 wins). Temple really wasn't in my mind EVER a national program. Not even in the 80's/90's.