ESPNU The American Football Preview

[BIGHORSE]

is coming on at 6 30, I don't know if it's the AAC, but we'll find out.

[LA_Mustang]

It was the AAC preview. Basically a Louisville lovefest. They listed our game against A&M as one of the key OOC games but otherwise, not one SMU mention.

[BIGHORSE]

It was more like the Louiville show, most teams not even mentioned.

[SMUSIC 07]

Should have called it the Terry Bridgewater Heisman Preview.

[Water Pony]

ESPN yesterday:

"1. The American Athletic Conference has taken a lot of heat since its inception. The league is losing its automatic-qualifier status after this season. But the one thing the American has is good, veteran coaches. Four of the league's coaches -- June Jones of SMU, George O’Leary of UCF, Paul Pasqualoni of Connecticut and Tommy Tuberville of Cincinnati - have won at least 100 games. Only the SEC has more with five, and that’s actually a lower percentage (5-of-14, 35.7 percent) than the American (4-of-10, 40 percent)."

[SMUSIC 07]

It's just odd to me that the "introduction to this new conference" was 90% focused on a school that will be leaving the conference next year.

[Pony ^]

I saw it and fast forwarded through pretty much the whole thing. 26/30 min was about Louisville

[blackoutpony]

You would think ESPN would want to give love to the schools whose rights it still owns after this year. I honestly don't get it at all. It's like when the got rid of the blog without replacing it immediately? Don't they want what is essentially their brand to be successful?

[sbsmith]

You would think ESPN would want to give love to the schools whose rights it still owns after this year. I honestly don't get it at all. It's like when the got rid of the blog without replacing it immediately? Don't they want what is essentially their brand to be successful?

The AAC is not ESPN's brand, nor are the other G5 conferences they're affiliated with (Sun Belt, MAC). Those conferences represent cheap content for ESPN (and ESPN ignores/derides them in the media to keep the content cheap which is a success for ESPN).