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The “ Chick Filet AAC Conference” for a few $$$ million I don’t have a problem.

It's all about chasing the $$ right now. Many new Commish's are talking about new revenue streams and relationships with new media sources and sponsorships with previous untapped industries. They are tasked to find money for the schools in this NIL era, beyond ticket sales and t-shirt vendors.

Selling the naming rights to your own conference name is a new low. So much for the same conference that wanted to honor its history by keeping the "12" in its name after Colorado, Nebraska, A&M, and Mizzou bolted. No more shame, I see. This sounds like a ridiculous gimmick that our new AAC commish would have came up with when he was spewing at his presser. Maybe we can get Brint Ryan involved again to rename our conference the Ryan Athletic Conference. Love a nice RAC!

I hate you for making me agree with you. But damned right. This might end up worse than NIL. "Our new QB has signed a 4 year college deal with Mountain Dew. Please respect our decision while he finishes his free nursing degree and we absorb 10% of your schools student fees for 10 years whether you are good or not"

I was thinking that too. Hope we at least get a return game out of Boise.

Will they have rosters at this tournament?

Your statement indicates that you lack an understanding of how today’s college football staffs work. There is ZERO chance that the coaching staff (not analysts necessarily) isn’t in on who will be starting at QB when it’s pre-ordained or determined before/early in camp. It’s candidly discussed in coaches’ meetings (with entire staff or the offensive side of the ball) and codified in coaches-only depth charts. When any of the HC/OC/QB coach tells a QB recruit or roster QB anything related to open/no competition, it’s been orchestrated. And often it’s understood anyway, when NIL is allocated across the QB room and roster. Thus my point: it don’t matter.

Since it's an ESPN event.....and Disney owns ABC/ESPN....I would think that's a pretty good bet.

St. Bonaventure went 20-13 last year. UNI went 19-14. Utah State was 28-7....beating TCU in the NCAA tourney, then losing to Purdue.

Is this event at Disney world

Great news. I like these tournaments.

I contribute to help continue the progress I have seen in basketball.

Happy to contribute to both collectives on a recurring basis! Our strength is our numbers! Just 10,000 recurring monthly contributions of $10 to each collective would generate $2.4 million per year! Let’s do it!

A bunch of people used to dealing with academics and rich people giving you money for their own hubris get involved with some of the most greedy profit-oriented sharks around......what could go wrong?

Nov. 27-29 is the Wed-Fri of Thanksgiving Week, btw.

Not sure if the two games would be pre-determined. Or if first games would be set....with the winners and losers playing the next night. I had assumed we would be doing a return game with Northern Iowa....but this may preclude that? Not sure.

There's obviously an injury history and risk with CM and every starting QB. I bet more than 40% of QBs that started game 1 didn't finished the season in FBS last year, for various reasons. Backups are important and can lead to a starting job quickly, like Rogers last year here.

I would say Conference re-naming revenue, just like revenue from advertising on a field/stadium would go to the school's Athletic Departments. The Chick-Fil-a Conference is soon to become reality. That's what so many people forget about college sports...it truly can affect the public perception about a school's quality in other areas. Most don't know anything about UConn's biology department, but probably think it must be pretty good if the basketball teams are so good...right?

One of the biggest advantages is they will know how to get money in to create that return. Examples would be naming rights, ads on uniforms on the field just to name a few obvious items. It will be interesting to see who gets the money? Does it go to the AD or the school?

Another question should be, since this has clearly been defined as professional sports by the players themselves, why should students continue to have to pay student athletic fees?

I brought this up a few months ago. It is inevitable when you have this kind of money involved. It will be no big deal for the NIL NCAA settlement. As time goes on it will mean more money to the players.

Yuuuup. And they wonder why no one takes them seriously. It reads as basically, "trust us, we're trying, just give us more."

So... uh... when are WE fans going to boycott?