No one is going to respect or take seriously a conference with so many anchors in it. The committee just sent the 7th place mwc team to the tournament to score 44 points on under 30% shooting, with us having won the AAC regular season not even under consideration. The group of 5 bowl game went to liberty. There's no bridging that gap. Not to mention all the work we've done growing our image as a university outside of athletics down the drain as we group ourselves with fau, Birmingham, Charlotte, North Texas etc.
The best thing that could happen to us is the AAC folding, as it would finally force our hand. Uconn and byu did things right when faced with a better option than this and neither regret it.