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It’s as good of a time as any, go big or go home

It’s pretty simple math beyond the fact that actually competing when you get there is more likely with more resources

Every passing year this becomes closer to long term, no one else is left and we need out far sooner than later. Would making the playoffs next year be awesome? Absolutely. Does the aac have an easy path to the playoffs in any year? Absolutely not. Will the aac champion make the playoffs the majority of years? Absolutely not. Would I trade the playoffs next season for getting called up to any higher league and going 0-12 next season? Absolutely.

We very well can make the playoffs this year, doesn’t mean that’s a desirable position long term

Expanded playoffs mean you don’t have to win the sec to get in, what it does not mean is that winning the aac does get you in

The mountain west will get the left over 5 bid the majority of years that exists before it is snatched away, it’s not an easier path it’s a mirage that we are pretending is a good thing because it makes it easier to cope. Playing bad teams the majority of your games is a bad thing and you can’t make it up in volume. See the basketball season right now, in any real conference you wouldn’t be worried the regular season means nothing and you absolutely must win the conference tournament to get in but that’s not where we find ourselves. Having the ability to be one of several teams to get in from your conference is a good thing even if it means you may actually have to play competitive teams and lose sometimes; conversely having to have no room for error and that 60 something other teams do error so you can fight for one spot between all of you is a bad thing even if it means you win more often. This doesn’t even account for how well anyone will do when they get there and having more money, exposure and playing better teams should get better recruits and lead to better results. Most everyone is predicting a growing divide in college football disparity and not this made up equity people are pretending will come from expanded playoffs.

6. Ohio State 45, Northwestern 24 (2018) Northwestern’s first-ever trip to the Big Ten Championship resulted in a surprisingly entertaining game against the No. 6 ranked Buckeyes. This game featured a ton of offense, as Ohio State set the Big Ten Championship record for passing yards (499) and first downs (31) on the back of Dwayne Haskins’ MVP-deserving day. Despite the dynamite offense from the East champs, the plucky 8-4 Wildcats were able to keep up with the Buckeyes for a large part of the game, even kicking a field goal to make the game 24-31 early in the fourth quarter. Ohio State pulled away in the fourth to cover the 16.5-point spread, but it was a high-scoring and entertaining game, with over 1,000 total yards on offense, that is far from the worst product the Big Ten had ever showcased in its title game. 5. Ohio State 22, Northwestern 10 (2020) Are you tired of reading about the Buckeyes in Big Ten title games? I’ve got bad news for you. After a tumultuous season of pandemic cancellations and wonky results, the No. 4 Buckeyes (5-0) took on the No. 14 Wildcats (6-1) in the second meeting of these two teams in three years of championship games. Once again, the Buckeyes were 16.5-point favorites and once again, Northwestern kept it competitive, this time even taking a 10-6 lead into the half. There’s no way to describe this game that does not start with Trey Sermon. Even on a down day for Justin Fields, the Buckeyes running back went on a frenzy, collecting a Big Ten Championship Game record 331 rushing yards (and the MVP award) in one of the most dominant displays of offensive line play I can remember. In a mostly empty Lucas Oil Stadium, it wasn’t the prettiest contest — both quarterbacks threw two interceptions, including a jaw-dropping end-zone snag by Brandon Joseph — but it was a competitive game that deserves a middle-tier spot in the rankings.

We have zero WVU’s in this conference, these are the people that replaced the teams that replaced the teams that replaced WVU. I had WVU and Louisville as some of my favorite wins as well but nothing like that exists even relatively close to them here. From the BEAST only one team remains after a few rounds of changes and what we have now is not ever going to resonate locally or nationally. You are comparing apples to ****

Not one of those teams has ever once discussed moving down and every few year they have a season that just is not possible in the aac. Who in the aac would rather be those teams? Everyone

Still felt better and still got way more discussion and credibility. No one cares if you beat UNT and UAB, playing a schedule full of them is the problem

It’s always been weird to me that people want to blame the actual Bulls with no control over anything instead of the management that has full control of everything, are the ones that decided these are who I want to make Bulls and will likely be wearing a new logo every four years one way or another.

You probably do on a Drake message board, either that or what’s your favorite Degrassi episode

I think the issue is if you are mostly selling hope and the season ends pretty hopeless, again, most people aren’t going back to the components you may have actually been right about. I would expect a more receptive audience this year.

Thanks for the save, I was so mad he said motor home instead of home and got hung up on not being able to say” I think they just call them homes” that I didn’t know where to go.

Greater opportunities, exposure and resources. Being David and beating Goliath is absolutely the best. But most of the time you won’t even get Goliath’s attention, if you do there is no way you are getting him to show up and if you try to beat him with a rock he is just going to blow your head off with a .50 cal. Much like the little mermaid I want to be where the people are and no one I’ve ever met irl gives a **** about this under the sea athletics league even with a passing interest. No one can tell me that the aac experience now hits the same way that our BEAST experience did and it has as much to do with being in the aac as it does with winning.

Prior to your takes on Brown I am not sure I could even see any Rony Seikaly’s in your evaluations even if I appreciated your enthusiasm. It’s definitely easier to see things your way this time around and i think the discussion will be better than people just laughing at you and telling you how you are obviously wrong.

They said “My favorite memories as a USF fan are those where our teams have won at the level they were at.” Most of my favorite wins are against people above us where we shook the world and got coaches fired for such a travesty. Truth be told if we were in the SEC it wouldn’t take long for me to wonder why we are limiting ourselves to the college level.

The duality of man

I like to feel disrespected as much as anyone but in this instance it’s probably likely from us leading the conference while having been curb stomped by bad out of conference teams early in the season.

It’s got to feel pretty good that you kept the faith and now this season people can actually see what you see for the first time in years

Anything that should be done… since we already went way past where i would have ever dreamed we would have gotten this season the time for unreasonable demands started yesterday.

He appreciates that it’s harder to win here

The MSM…