***Also, the AAC is the big loser in the new playoff system; whereas most football conferences will make a LOT more money, the ACC will lose almost half of their FBS revenue.***
Well, the reason for that is they suck.
Take Clempson (aka Pickens Tec) and Florida State out of the equation and they are simply a basketball conference, nothing else.
They certainly don’t have the depth of the SEC. But I was actually talking about the American, not the Atlantic Coast. All this “such-and-such conference sucks!” is really quite lame IMHO. One could say that the SEC East is a basketball conference, except they don’t have any good basketball programs.
Now, the American can’t hold a candle to the SEC or the ACC. But I was discussing how to make it even half-way decent.