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AAC Hoops Tourney Will Stay At Dickies Arena
BVito had it in the sports capsules one day in the DMNews. I found it in his online blog....(copied here....amongst other items: The American Athletic Conference renamed its MVP award for the league’s football championship after outgoing commissioner Mike Aresco and officially announced its basketball tournament will remain at Dickies Arena through 2028 at its annual business meetings this week. The MVP will now receive the Mike Aresco Most Outstanding Player award. The league announced those moves and a host of others on Friday, one day after the event wrapped up. Aresco announced his retirement in December. He was named the fourth commissioner of the Big East in 2012 and oversaw its transformation as it became the American. Friday was Aresco’s final day as the league’s commissioner. Tim Pernetti, the former president of IMG Academy, is taking over for Aresco. The league honored Aresco with a celebration of his tenure on Wednesday. “Serving as Commissioner of the American Athletic Conference has been the most rewarding experience of my career,” Aresco said in a statement. UNT athletic director Jared Mosley was named to the conference’s athletic directors executive committee and will serve a term that runs through 2026. The league made several other announcements following the meetings, including … -- The conference’s 2025 softball tournament will be played at South Florida. -- UNT will host the league’s annual Academic Symposium in 2025. -- The league will increase the fees paid to softball umpires to attract top-rated officials. -- The AAC’s finance committee said that the distribution pool for the 2024 fiscal year was higher than what the league budgeted, while expenses were lower than projected. -
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AAC Hoops Tourney Will Stay At Dickies Arena
I love it being in Fort Worth better than Frisco because it's an actual basketball venue and closer to home. However, pictures of the terrible attendance throughout the week went viral on Twitter and the showing was not only ridiculed by other AAC fans, but college basketball fans in general. I haven't seen the 2028 announcement on Twitter yet but it's sure to more widespread disapproval. The teams have to take advantage of the opportunity and make it to the title game, though, and more fans need to show up. We couldn't have gotten luckier with the scheduling this March - all three men's/women's games started at 6 p.m. or later. -
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Looking to discuss, or debate: the future of CFB.
The question that runs thru my mind is what happens to schools like ours for football and basketball? I mean, its very clear that the top levels could have as few as 24 schools up to 48, if you are only considering football. Add in college hoops and you'll add in some Big East schools and Gonzaga. So what happens below this? Does another level get created? Is it a level that is based on money, TV markets, school size, or all of them? Do SMU and TCU preclude UNT from being in this level of play again? If they cannot, do we finally get to be in a situation that is full of regional schools that we have always wanted to be aligned with in a conference? If they do, should we fold it up like so many have wanted in Denton for so long? That's what I am most interested to see what this future holds for our athletic teams. Let's face it. If we had the support that a school of our size should have had all of these years, then we don't deal with any of these issues. But we have not had that, as the strong majority just flat out doesn't care about our teams at all.- 1
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