AAC gets waiver to hold championship game with 11 teams.

[NewEnglandBull]

2 minutes ago, Gatorbull325 said:

AAC needs to add Appalachian State. You guys hate the idea, but they have been averaging 10 games a year and they are ranked this year. 

You are correct we hate the idea. 

[George_Bullnard_Shaw]

2 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

You are correct we hate the idea. 

LA Tech regularly dominates CUSA, maybe we can take them.

[NewEnglandBull]

12 minutes ago, George_Bullnard_Shaw said:

LA Tech regularly dominates CUSA, maybe we can take them.

None of it has anything to do with how good a team is as this is typically cyclical anyway. We need people who follow the team and watch them on tv. If BYU is no go then Air Force, Army, or Colorado State should be considered (in that order). 

[Gatorbull325]

2 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

2 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

None of it has anything to do with how good a team is as this is typically cyclical anyway. We need people who follow the team and watch them on tv. If BYU is no go then Air Force, Army, or Colorado State should be considered (in that order). 

You are correct we hate the idea. 

App State hands down has been the most consistent team for the past decade. There is nothing cyclical with them

[Gatorbull325]

2 hours ago, George_Bullnard_Shaw said:

LA Tech regularly dominates CUSA, maybe we can take them.

App State has been beating P5 Schools, ranked teams and most G5 teams they have faced. They been a 10 win team for over a decade. We will NEVER steal a team from the Mountain West so unless we get one of the military academies (which I prefer) App State is our best option in terms of adding "quality" football

[Guest Jonesy Bull]

47 minutes ago, Gatorbull325 said:

App State has been beating P5 Schools, ranked teams and most G5 teams they have faced. They been a 10 win team for over a decade. We will NEVER steal a team from the Mountain West so unless we get one of the military academies (which I prefer) App State is our best option in terms of adding "quality" football

They might have "quality" football, but they don't have that brand name recognition that would be more beneficial for our conference.

Kick out Tulsa, and bring in Army and BYU.  That would be ideal, but it probably has no chance to happen because I think they like being independents.  They can schedule anybody they want.  But wouldn't it be great to have "another" big rivalry game in the conference Army/Navy.  It might just surpass that "other" big rivalry game in the conference every year! 

[chapelbull]

1 hour ago, Gatorbull325 said:

App State has been beating P5 Schools, ranked teams and most G5 teams they have faced. They been a 10 win team for over a decade. We will NEVER steal a team from the Mountain West so unless we get one of the military academies (which I prefer) App State is our best option in terms of adding "quality" football

App State has beaten 1 P5 school in the past decade (North Carolina this year).   For the most part the rest of their success has been against Sun Belt and other mediocre G5 teams.   The early part of this decade was pretty mediocre.  They picked it back up a few years ago (hence cyclical) and gave a couple P5 teams a run for their money and then beat North Carolina (3-4) this year.  They bring very little to the conference.

Edited October 25, 2019 by chapelbull

[NewEnglandBull]

2 hours ago, Gatorbull325 said:

App State hands down has been the most consistent team for the past decade. There is nothing cyclical with them

And no one is watching them outside of Boone.

[puc86]

Anyone that would consider joining the AAC obviously sucks, brings nothing to the table and should be disqualified from candidacy. We need to focus on getting out of this **** hole before we worry about how to further diminish the leagues “value”.

[USFBulls727]

1 hour ago, Jonesy Bull said:

They might have "quality" football, but they don't have that brand name recognition that would be more beneficial for our conference.

P5 conferences may be saying the same thing about us, minus the "quality football" part

 

13 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

And no one is watching them outside of Boone

Wonder who's watching us outside this area. Most fans around the country can't tell us apart from our rivals to the East.

 

Not saying App State would be my first pick, but they have done well, and would be competitive I believe. If winning isn't enough, what does a school like that have to do to move up? Is the Sun Belt their ceiling? P5 fans view us they way some of you view App State.