COLUMBIA, Mo. • The American Athletic Conference, an amalgamation of teams from the Big East and Conference USA, could be the most important football conference over the next few weeks. From Memphis, Tenn., to Philadelphia, it's home to some of the brightest head coaching candidates from which the bigger conferences can pluck and turn into multimillionaires.
Fox Sports' Bruce Feldman recently listed the 51 most intriguing names for the upcoming coaching carousel and six came from the AAC, including four of the top 25: Houston's Tom Herman (No. 2), Memphis' Justin Fuente (No.