The American Athletic Conference renamed its MVP award for the league’s football championship after outgoing commissioner Mike Aresco during its annual business meetings this week.
The American Athletic Conference renamed its MVP award for the league’s football championship after outgoing commissioner Mike Aresco during its annual business meetings this week.
The American Athletic Conference renamed its MVP award for the league’s football championship after outgoing commissioner Mike Aresco and officially announced its basketball tournament will remain at Dickies Arena through 2028 at its annual business meetings this week.
The MVP will now receive the Mike Aresco Most Outstanding Player award.
The league announced those moves and a host of others on Friday, one day after the event wrapped up.
Aresco announced his retirement in December. He was named the fourth commissioner of the Big East in 2012 and oversaw its transformation as it became the American.
Friday was Aresco’s final day as the league’s commissioner. Tim Pernetti, the former president of IMG Academy, is taking over for Aresco.
The league honored Aresco with a celebration of his tenure on Wednesday.
“Serving as Commissioner of the American Athletic Conference has been the most rewarding experience of my career,” Aresco said in a statement.
UNT athletic director Jared Mosley was named to the conference’s athletic directors executive committee and will serve a term that runs through 2026.
The league made several other announcements following the meetings, including …
-- The conference’s 2025 softball tournament will be played at South Florida.
-- UNT will host the league’s annual Academic Symposium in 2025.
-- The league will increase the fees paid to softball umpires to attract top-rated officials.
-- The AAC’s finance committee said that the distribution pool for the 2024 fiscal year was higher than what the league budgeted, while expenses were lower than projected.
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