by GoldenWarrior11 » Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:51 pm
The Big East/AAC debate is officially over, and Stever's dynamic and argumentative pursuits towards this topic have essentially vanished (more due to him continuing to be on moderator approval more than anything). Personally, I don't think he needs moderator approval anymore, but that is not my place to say (I am not a moderator). Stever is always one to engage in debate, and HLOH is wonderful home for BE Hoops Talk for all.
Side note: yes, the AAC (for Basketball) is in - long-term - deep trouble. As stated repeatedly before, as the AAC is currently constructed, the league is, at-best, a maximum three-bid league. This is based on historical performance and current collection of programs. The "potential" of all of these programs each having strong OOC seasons and the top taking care of the middle and the bottom, with the middle convincingly owning the bottom, the league can then be a four-or-five-bid league. However, history has shown that all those forces occurring together rarely happen in the same year. Cincinnati and Memphis should be top-25 programs annually. Take this year, for example: this is the first year that the collection of UCF/USF/ECU/Tulane have not individually torpedoed the OOC SOS W/L; however, this is the first time that Cincinnati (one of the historical top programs) is in last place in the AAC as well. Much like the locations of the AAC, the basketball pieces just never seem to fit together (even without UConn).