AAC commish Mike Aresco on possible realignment
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 3:47 pmCollege football scribe Heather Dinich put out this tweet after an interview with American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco, and got the following quote re: other conferences possibly having interest in SMU:
"You have to have contingency plans, at least thinking about contingency plans, but it would just be better to get all this over with, but we can't influence other people's negotiations," he said. "We just can't. It's just a waiting game. We prefer that some of this not take place in public. We've had presidents talking about some of our teams. We'd prefer that didn't happen. We don't think when we ever expanded we did that. I'm not losing sleep over it, but we'd just like to get it over with because it would help everyone move on, but we have no influence."
"You have to have contingency plans, at least thinking about contingency plans, but it would just be better to get all this over with, but we can't influence other people's negotiations," he said. "We just can't. It's just a waiting game. We prefer that some of this not take place in public. We've had presidents talking about some of our teams. We'd prefer that didn't happen. We don't think when we ever expanded we did that. I'm not losing sleep over it, but we'd just like to get it over with because it would help everyone move on, but we have no influence."