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Let's play a game where the PAC-4 doesn't evaporate over the weekend or get reverse merged and worn like a skin suit by the MWC. Who do they invite? Who will go? Do they pull more money than the AAC or MWC? Gotta at least try for 10, right?
Cal, Stanford, Wazzu, Beavs...
SDSU?
SMU?
Boise State?
Tulane?
Rice?
USF?
Solid academics, non-laughable football... hell of a travel itinerary for a lower-income conference though.
They literally have to make it to 10. SDSU, Air Force, Wyoming, Colorado St, Boise St, and one or both NM schools?
The big challenge is that all of these teams are leaving after the 2023-2024 school year. So, they need these teams next season. The MWC arrangement is that if you want to leave at the end of the current school year, you owe two years of league distributions. With SDSU’s run to the championship game in basketball, the distributions are code the $19 million, so if these schools want to leave, they’d owe close to $40 million to leave to a league with no television deal.
In theory, they could disband the MWC, but I believe that takes 9 votes. So, this league would have to invite everyone but San Jose State, Wyoming and Utah State? (Or maybe no Hawaii?)
Needless to say, that’s not super realistic. (Granted, nothing that happened this week seemed realistic last week)
Really? Seems like this result has been obvious for months to me. (That's easy to say now, I know) The timing, no, but money is undefeated vs college football, and it was clear where the money is.