New-look AAC: ‘We just want to see who’s on top at the end’
University of Memphis Coach Ryan Silverfield calls plays during the Tigers' Friday Night Lights spring game April 21. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Tim Buckley
Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
Houston, Cincinnati and UCF are out; six former Conference USA schools are in. Shouldn’t Memphis automatically be a new AAC power?
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