If the AAC provided all of the following, I'd be happy in it:
1. about $30M/yr more revenue through a highly visible, prolific TV/media package that aired games on channels that people actually have in their lineup and watch;
2. to be granted autonomy along with the other power conferences with equal voting powers/rights;
3. access to the football playoff, BCS bowl game tie-in, improved non-BCS bowl game tie-ins, and improved access to top NCAA Tourney seedings;
4. about 90% of the schools in our conference replaced with bigger and better names - dump the Tulsa, Tulane, SMU hogwash and replace with BYU, Boise, and Fresno St (travel be dammed!);
5. the sweetest of sweetheart arrangements made with Notre Dame and Texas (and whatever other power school that wants to start its own network and play by its own set of rules) to play games against us - they can have their own networks and whatever money the AAC generates to play a shortened schedule games against UConn and a few other AAC schools;
6. while we are on the topic, I'd like to see UConn begin its own UCONNTV channel and begin to operate like the Texas/ND of the G5 world (as we should as the top revenue school in the G5);
7. UConn to meet the P5 "power school" requirement (as BYU and ND do) for football scheduling;
8. conference basketball tournament held at Madison Square Garden;
9. conference headquarters moved from Newport, RI to Storrs, CT;
10. a football conference championship game every year held at the Rent pitting UConn vs the "next best" - winner goes to the National Championship game
Since none of these are likely to happen, I guess I'll just remain unhappy in the AAC until we finally get our much overdue power invite.
