A fellow college administrator jokingly told Mike Aresco recently that he should have been an evangelist preacher. The commissioner of the American Athletic Conference has been working the pulpit hard in recent weeks, spreading the Good News of the Group of Five’s best league.
Aresco spent late November and early December proselytizing for pigskin respect for his league, both in the near term and the big picture. He pushed hard for his league champion to get the G5 bid to the Cotton Bowl (it did), and for the eventual acknowledgement of a Power 6 leagues, as opposed to the Power 5 (good luck).