It would behoove us all to recognize the great things that BSU's athletics program done and to realize that the AAC is not a conference of academic powerhouses. A conference with Memphis and Tulsa (and that you wish would add UNLV and a notorious party school like SDSU) has no basis to turn up their noses at BSU academics.
It might be good for you to hike the Y sometime soon and look at Utah Valley. Even with all the growth it's a surprisingly rural area, and it strikes me as funny that you'd look down your nose at a school in a larger city (and with more athletic success in the last 20 years) as if you were some sort of cosmopolitan.