Another AAC projected ranking list

[cousin oliver]

This one has us 6th out of 14.

 

[Dentonborn79]

Refuse to believe we are middle of the pack,an average AAC team,nope

[3_n_out]

Haven’t kept up w/ UAB, but who have they picked up to be placed ahead of us? Yes, we lost Abou and Tyler, but we also gained some P5 transfers that should be contributors. As a whole, I believe we’re better than last year 

[Harry]

40 minutes ago, 3_n_out said:

Haven’t kept up w/ UAB, but who have they picked up to be placed ahead of us? Yes, we lost Abou and Tyler, but we also gained some P5 transfers that should be contributors. As a whole, I believe we’re better than last year 

I can tell you this is the deepest and most talented UNT team they've ever had.  That is one of the primary reasons we formed the collective was to try and keep this team together as well as supporting other sports.  The $ amounts being offered to some of our men's basketball players from other P5 programs would astound you.   But they love UNT, and they want to stay here.  We are simply trying to bridge the gap. GMG

[NT80]

3 hours ago, Harry said:

I can tell you this is the deepest and most talented UNT team they've ever had.  That is one of the primary reasons we formed the collective was to try and keep this team together as well as supporting other sports.  The $ amounts being offered to some of our men's basketball players from other P5 programs would astound you.   But they love UNT, and they want to stay here.  We are simply trying to bridge the gap. GMG

Isn't that the illegal part of NIL, being offered cash (bribery) by another program without being in the portal?

[MrAlien]

I have seen a lot of polls, I really dont think the people who put these lists together really follow AAC basketball.   I dont know how anyone does not put FAU at the top of their ranking, Final 4 team and everyone s coming back.  Memphis was a tournament team last season, they lost some players, but Hardaway did very well recruiting in the portal, so a solid #2.  Tulane will have basically the same team as last season, blown out by Memphis in the conference tournament and no post season invites.  Wichita did land a couple decent players, but they dont seem to have the depth on their roster.  UNT probably had one of their best recruiting years ever, on paper this could be their best team, but with a new coach, even one familiar with the program, a lot remains to be seen.  UAB pick up a couple of interesting transfers, returning coach, I dont see them being any worse then last year.

1.  FAU

2.  Memphis

3.  UAB

4.  UNT

5.  Wichita

6.  East Carolina

7.  Tulane

8.  USF

9. SMU

10. Tulsa

11. Temple

12. Rice

13. Charlotte

14. UTSA

 

[GrayEagle]

To me, that's much better than Sidelines did.  There are a couple that I would move but otherwise pretty sound.

Since it affects us, I would swap places with us and UAB.  We beat UAB in last year's final and I believe we've made several  improvements.  I believe that they're downgrading Coach Ross without how heavily involved he was in coaching UNT the past several years.  They also downgraded for the loss of Tyler without looking at the replacements.

[MrAlien]

UNT and UAB are really close, I gave UAB the slight edge because they are returning more key players as well as their coach.  UNT has the potential to win this conference, but no one has seen this team play together under our new coach, its hard to speculate compared to programs that have been very successful under their current coaches. 

[emmitt01]

I put no stock in these polls because all they can do is guess at how good we will be....and how good the rest of the league will be, honestly.   You know a little something about Memphis because of who they return and a little something about FAU because of what they accomplished last season...but honestly nothing else.  

 

Oh, and from the things I have heard, the fact that some of our players stayed despite the sums of money dangled in front of them....tells me they have a LOT of hope for this upcoming season.   

[CMJ]

I think the new coach is probably influencing a lot of the predictions on our quality this coming season.  To be fair, it is a huge unknown for people who don't follow us closely.  Not a big deal.

[southsideguy]

I dont care about the rankings but there is one team on the schedule I hope we beat twice and dont take off the gas.

[UNT Family Man]

31 minutes ago, southsideguy said:

I dont care about the rankings but there is one team on the schedule I hope we beat twice and dont take off the gas.

I hope it is more than just one team that we don’t take our foot off the gas from. All we can to try and get that at large bid.

[97and03]

On 10/5/2023 at 1:34 AM, NT80 said:

Isn't that the illegal part of NIL, being offered cash (bribery) by another program without being in the portal?

Yes. Yes it is. But unfortunately for programs like NT no one cares anymore. 

[UNTLifer]

Here is one I found.

1.  UNT

2.  FAU

3.  UAB

4.  Memphis

5.  Wichita St.

6.  Tulane

7.  ECU

8.  USF

9. Tulsa

10. Temple

11. Rice

12. Charlotte

13. SMU

14. UTSA