American Athletic Conference

[BMoreX]

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN 9m

American Athletic Conference is new name for former Big East, sources told @ESPN

[Masterofreality]

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN 9m

American Athletic Conference is new name for former Big East, sources told @ESPN

Unimpressive. How much did they pay some PR firm to come up with that?

AAC! Sounds like someone choking.

[BMoreX]

Unimpressive. How much did they pay some PR firm to come up with that?

AAC! Sounds like someone choking.

AAC, ACC. Someone on TV will get them mixed up.

[ballyhoohoo]

AAC, ACC. Someone on TV will get them mixed up.

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[powerofX]

Should be the xfl. Football league nobody will watch.

[Xman95]

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN 9m

American Athletic Conference is new name for former Big East, sources told @ESPN

The way I see it is the former Big East is now the Big East. Teams that are no longer part of the Big East are in the AAC.

[Masterofreality]

“@frankthetank111: New name gives me a heart attack AAC AAC AAC AAC #billyjoel RT @McMurphyESPN: American Athletic Conference is new name for former Big East”

“@GoodmanCBS: American Athletic Conference is new name of the "new Big East." *I was hoping for American Athletic Union. AAU.”

[coasterville95]

Great, can they start using that name in their press releases, immediately. Stop tarnishing the Big East name any further on your way out!

[muskiefan82]

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[BMoreX]

Big East Conference ‏@BigEastConf 20m
For those asking, the conference intends to emphasize "The American" as its brand, not an acronym.

lol

[MADXSTER]

It's better than America 12

[STL_XUfan]

Oh god it just hit me there were probably contract negotiations over who gets to keep the twitter followers of the current big east twitter account.

[paulxu]

What's the fascination with the word "American?"
It's not a coast-to-coast league.
Are they going for an AFL idea, and hope to merge with the ACC down the road?

[coasterville95]

Waiting for the press conference with YTG for the chest pounding inspirational speech about how the AAC is the greatest thing to happen to UC and how challenging and exciting the future will be.

[MADXSTER]

Waiting for the press conference with YTG for the chest pounding inspirational speech about how the AAC is the greatest thing to happen to UC and how challenging and exciting the future will be.

Follow by Ken Broo and the rest of the Cinci press

[BMoreX]

What's the fascination with the word "American?"
It's not a coast-to-coast league.
Are they going for an AFL idea, and hope to merge with the ACC down the road?

Or MWC...

[Juice]

Waiting for the press conference with YTG for the chest pounding inspirational speech about how the AAC is the greatest thing to happen to UC and how challenging and exciting the future will be.

"What I like about the AAC is that you don't have the weekly grind of playing the best teams in the country for every game like we had to in the Big East...But we all know that this current form of the Big East isn't like the traditional Big East that we, UC, were part for all of 8 whole years..." - YTG

[PM Thor]

I seriously believe that they hope people confuse the ACC with the AAC. As is being reported they are going to emphasize "the American" in their media releases, twitter stuff and other social media outlets. HORRIBLE.

In all honesty, going back to the Metro held cache' to it. It had a backstory to it, so people would actually wonder about it. The AAC? It's MAAC esque

Take a lap, AAC. In fact, take two.

[xudash]

Big East Conference ‏@BigEastConf 20m
For those asking, the conference intends to emphasize "The American" as its brand, not an acronym.

lol

Oh, please tell me that's a joke.

This is as bad as when NBC paid a PR/design firm $3 million in the mid 70's to kill the peacock in favor of a very screwed up trapezoid:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/1975_NBC_logo.svg

People in Clifton must be gagging right about now. Maybe they could have a peacock for a conference mascot.

[PM Thor]

I think that logo is off of the show The Americans.

[LadyMuskie]

Oh, please tell me that's a joke.

This is as bad as when NBC paid a PR/design firm $3 million in the mid 70's to kill the peacock in favor of a very screwed up trapezoid:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/1975_NBC_logo.svg

People in Clifton must be gagging right about now. Maybe they could have a peacock for a conference mascot.

This logo looks wildly accurate for the AAC. Why? Well, it appears that the blue trapezoid was once part of the red trapezoid. A giant white X came between the two and now the blue has been removed from its former home atop the red, and while the red continues an ascent based on where it is pointing, the blue is now on a downward journey. Hence, the new logo being very apropos for the situation in which the teams of the AAC find themselves - once a part of something great, and now on a downward spiral to nothingness. Hurrah!

[xudash]

This logo looks wildly accurate for the AAC. Why? Well, it appears that the blue trapezoid was once part of the red trapezoid. A giant white X came between the two and now the blue has been removed from its former home atop the red, and while the red continues an ascent based on where it is pointing, the blue is now on a downward journey. Hence, the new logo being very apropos for the situation in which the teams of the AAC find themselves - once a part of something great, and now on a downward spiral to nothingness. Hurrah!

Please tell me you did that after a bong. That is genius!

[xudash]

I think that logo is off of the show The Americans.

Nope. That's the NBC trapezoid, circa 1975. Perhaps NBC sold it to the owner's of that show for $30 or something.

[Masterofreality]

Nope. That's the NBC trapezoid, circa 1975. Perhaps NBC sold it to the owner's of that show for $30 or something.

Yep. True. The NBC "N" goes down in infamy as being as mocked as "New Coke",

[wkrq59]

I seriously believe that they hope people confuse the ACC with the AAC. As is being reported they are going to emphasize "the American" in their media releases, twitter stuff and other social media outlets. HORRIBLE.
In all honesty, going back to the Metro held cache' to it. It had a backstory to it, so people would actually wonder about it. The AAC? It's MAAC esque
Take a lap, AAC. In fact, take two.

After the first DUI it'll be the Alcoholics Anonymous Conference or the American Alcoholics Conference.

[xubrew]

I'm not sure I should be proud that I know this, but there is already an AAC.....

http://www.aacsports.com/

[muskiefan82]

I'm not sure I should be proud that I know this, but there is already an AAC.....

http://www.aacsports.com/

It's okay. The Savannah College of Art & Design is a great school.

[X-band '01]

Big East Conference ‏@BigEastConf 20m
For those asking, the conference intends to emphasize "The American" as its brand, not an acronym.

lol

They should have just made it the US American Athletic Conference:

I just wanted to link this classic video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg)

[muskiefan82]

They should have just made it the US American Athletic Conference:

I just wanted to link this classic video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg)

Any opportunity to bring that out again is great. Reps.

[Muskie in dayton]

They should have just made it the US American Athletic Conference:

How about "The American Basketball Association of America" Conference (Dodgeball reference)

[muskiefan82]

This my favorite excerpt from the ESPN column:
"The American Athletic Conference will be the third Division I conference with a variation of America or American in its name. The others: America East and Mid-American. There's also Conference USA, which, ironically, is the league where nine of the 12 teams in the American Athletic Conference came from."

I think this conference has more in common with the MAC than just the name.

[blueblob06]

Big East Conference ‏@BigEastConf 20m
For those asking, the conference intends to emphasize "The American" as its brand, not an acronym.

lol

If I hear anyone say "The American" when referring to this new conference, I'm going to quickly interject, "you mean the Mid-American, right?"

[UCGRAD4X]

How about "The American Basketball Association of America" Conference (Dodgeball reference)

Sponsored by the Corporation for Redundancy Corporation.

[paulxu]

I'm not sure I should be proud that I know this, but there is already an AAC.....

http://www.aacsports.com/

I hope they sue the hell out of 'em for copyright infringement, or whatever is appropriate. Idiots.


They should have just made it the US American Athletic Conference:

I just wanted to link this classic video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg)

You guys just won't let this die. I would say this set my state back about 20 years, but that is impossible...we're already back there.

As an aside, I've got a friend here in Spartanburg whose daugther was Miss South Carolina (not that one on the video).
She was very bright, articulate, and not rattled at all by public speaking. Did a great job in her year advocating for suicide prevention.

[waggy]

I've been thinking of just ending it all. Could you have her call me?

[paulxu]

I've been thinking of just ending it all. Could you have her call me?

Why do I think this may not be a good idea.

[waggy]

Thanks Paul! Thanks a lot!

[SixFig]

So if I root against this conference, do I hate America?

[LA Muskie]

So if I root against this conference, do I hate America?

Not in the least. You are merely protesting the use of our nation'a great name for such drivel.

[Masterofreality]

From the Philly Post:

"Big East gets a Horrible New Name".

http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2013/04/04/big-east-horrible/

[ballyhoohoo]

I've been thinking of just ending it all. Could you have her call me?

Same here. Since I'll be close to SC this weekend a one on one may help

[paulxu]

From the Philly Post:

"Big East gets a Horrible New Name".

http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2013/04/04/big-east-horrible/

Is the "!" going to part of their official name, as in AAC!
Or did that guy see 82's picture before he wrote the article.


Same here. Since I'll be close to SC this weekend a one on one may help

Headed for the boat? On your Harley? Stop in and you can buy me that bourbon. If you make it to Charleston, she's got a photography business there now.

[ballyhoohoo]

Is the "!" going to part of their official name, as in AAC!
Or did that guy see 82's picture before he wrote the article.



Headed for the boat? On your Harley? Stop in and you can buy me that bourbon. If you make it to Charleston, she's got a photography business there now.

I'm headed to Atlanta and might be taking the long way around.

[muskiefan82]

From the Philly Post:

"Big East gets a Horrible New Name".

http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2013/04/04/big-east-horrible/

Wow. I like how the new commissioner uses the term aspirational instead of inspirational......hmmmm.......what does aspirational mean? If it comes from the word aspirate then the definition of aspirate is to suck in by inhaling or suck out material from a
person's body. So, essentially, the AAC sucks, although I would enjoy a blog or website named "Yak about the AAC" just because it too would suck

[bobbiemcgee]

http://zagsblog.com/articles/larry-brown-has-doubts-about-american-athletic-conference/

[Retire33]

http://zagsblog.com/articles/larry-brown-has-doubts-about-american-athletic-conference/

“Next year we’ll be in a great conference with Louisville, Connecticut, Temple, Memphis, Rutgers, but I don’t know what lies in store later on,” Brown said.

LOL, Brown must know what most X fans know. sUCks