say 4 games a year in football, and 4 games a year in MBB. I would much rather play AAC teams than most of the MWC teams (yes, that includes USU, SDSU and FSU, and especially UNLV, UNR, UNM, wyo). About the only MWC team I want to play is BSU, and we already have that. The AAC gets us into Texas and down into the SouthEast. In the long run, that is way better for recruiting than playing Mountain and Pacific time zone games, since we already have a number of those each year including against PAC schools. Also, the national press takes much more interest in AAC teams than they do MWC teams, BSU being the exception.

In MBB, it would greatly improve Dave Rose's non-conf scheduling to be able to play teams like Memphis, Cincinnati, UCONN, Houston, etc.