To:the App grads out there
from: all 1A schools
a 1AA championship is the real meaningless thing. and please stop talking about beating a shitty michigan team at the last second in ann arbor. no one else cares.
I see your Marshall and raise you a Boise State. But neither anecdote proves anything.
Which conferences might they join (I know nothing about second-tier southeastern college football)?
That is the difference between Marshall and Bosie. Bosie could join a high mid major conference because there is nothing else out there. It would be impossible for App to join a good conference. They are not going to the ACC or SEC... maybe Con USA but then you are in the same spot as Marshall. No thanks.
Boise State originally joined the Big West conference. I don't know your definition of "high mid major," but the Big West ain't it.
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But Boise was still able to thrive because there is not much around them. They could still be a relatively big fish. No way App could do that in the middle of ACC and SEC country.
Your previous posts on the subject show that you have delusions about how important a 1AA championship and a win against a now mediocre traditional power are but you are not nearly as delusional as a lot of the App fans I know who think a jump to 1A would mean App would start to DOMINATE the other NC schools.
I am not delusional at all. You might not think a being a 1AA contender is important but I would say go to an App game sometime. The atmosphere in Boone on Saturday's and the game experience proves that being a power house in their division means something. Again, if they moved up and had a "good" season every 10 years that would all go away.
i have been to app games. it means something to those people but it doesnt mean anything to the average college football fan.
ok...I hope you are consistent...to the average college football fan the App win over Michigan means more than Wake's win over GT to win the ACC Championship.
1st of all it is a lot more meaningful than spudering in 1A. I would much rather be where we are now than having one "good" season every 10 years.
2nd...with all due respect to Wake (as I am a Wake fan)...our victory over Michigan was bigger than any win that Wake has had in my life time. At the time Michigan was the number 5 team in the nation (an actually ended up having a good year). I know Wake won the ACC Championship but the App win over Michigan got infinite more press coverage and publicity than the ACC Championship.
Take off your glasses for a second man. I know you are an App grad but you have to be smarter than this.
people may care because it is a historic upset but nobody in California sat down to watch App play Michigan. They heard about it later. They didnt even know the game was going on.
Random football fans in California probably sat down to watch the Wake/GT and even if they turned it off at halftime because it was so boring, they knew it was going on.