Conference Realignment
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JasonEvans
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San Diego State has an enrollment of 37,000+ students. It is a very big school with a nice history of success in athletics. An excellent addition.
sagegrouse
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And wasn't it slated to join the PAC-12 before it collapsed?
AustinDevil
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Yes, they and SMU were coming in. SDSU is up there with OSU and WSU as the biggest loser of the PAC 12 debacle.
cato
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Yes and no. SDSU has been looking to get into the PAC forever, and appeared to have finally lined up the pieces, but part of me thinks that the LA schools would never have let it happen.
AustinDevil
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This is historically true, but the LA schools were already heading out and had no vote by summer 2023. SDSU was getting an invite until there wasn’t a conference left to invite them.
“We were told unequivocally more than once that it was just timing.”
burnspbesq
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Hawai’i is a natural fit in any reconstituted Pac-x. They’ve always been a bad fit in the otherwise non-football-playing Big West.
If Long Beach and Fullerton played football, they would be no-brainers, but both dropped football decades ago and it isn’t coming back.
Bold prediction: UNLV will be the next domino to fall.
If Long Beach and Fullerton played football, they would be no-brainers, but both dropped football decades ago and it isn’t coming back.
Bold prediction: UNLV will be the next domino to fall.
This would be the prize of that group in my opinion
TheDevilMadeMeDoIt
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Wouldn’t the University of Wyoming be a good fit? They had pretty good football with ex Duke assistant Craig Bohl as their coach. Larry Shyat of Clemson once coached basketball there. They also had a pretty good quarterback named Josh Allen!
Plus you get revenue from the coveted Laramie-Cheyenne TV market.
Money generally drives the bus. The 4 teams currently announced are 4 of the top 6 revenue athletic departments in the MWC. The other two are Air Force and UNLV. Wyoming is #7, but basically tied with Boise.
blazindw
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It's always important to note that stadium attendance social media rarely tells the full story. Every time someone posts a "hey, no one is at this game" pic, it's almost always posted way prior to kickoff. So, take them with grains of salt.Here’s an in-game picture -
Slightly different perspective
After latest realignment moves, which other schools will the Pac-12 try to scoop up?
The league wants to be known as the “best of the rest” outside of the power four leagues. So which other schools fit the bill? What kind of ripple effect will this all have on college sports?
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UNLV could very well be linked with any conference moves with UNR (Nevada), and that feels like a state legislature move. That may be what's giving the Pac-12 cold feet, but I would think they are very keen to add UNLV to their ranks. The Pac-12 played their conference title games for football and men's basketball in Vegas, so I would imagine they would attempt to keep that market in their conference.
However, if they are absolutely set on making it the Pac-State Conference, they probably have their sights on Utah State, San Jose State, New Mexico State, Texas State, Arkansas State, Georgia State, App State, Kennesaw State, Kent State, and Ball State. Middle Tennessee fell off the radar when they dropped State from their name.
Seems like Nevada and UNLV come together as a package. In any case, I hope the PACx keeps their footprint in the West. No need to go across the country....
UNLV could very well be linked with any conference moves with UNR (Nevada), and that feels like a state legislature move. That may be what's giving the Pac-12 cold feet, but I would think they are very keen to add UNLV to their ranks. The Pac-12 played their conference title games for football and men's basketball in Vegas, so I would imagine they would attempt to keep that market in their conference.
However, if they are absolutely set on making it the Pac-State Conference, they probably have their sights on Utah State, San Jose State, New Mexico State, Texas State, Arkansas State, Georgia State, App State, Kennesaw State, Kent State, and Ball State. Middle Tennessee fell off the radar when they dropped State from their name.
FosterCoachK82
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I love brevity’s suggestion of the nole$ in the PAC. So fitting for so many reasons.
burnspbesq
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Pullman, Washington to Boone, North Carolina would have to be the worst road trip imaginable.It's always important to note that stadium attendance social media rarely tells the full story. Every time someone posts a "hey, no one is at this game" pic, it's almost always posted way prior to kickoff. So, take them with grains of salt.
After latest realignment moves, which other schools will the Pac-12 try to scoop up?
The league wants to be known as the “best of the rest” outside of the power four leagues. So which other schools fit the bill? What kind of ripple effect will this all have on college sports?
UNLV could very well be linked with any conference moves with UNR (Nevada), and that feels like a state legislature move. That may be what's giving the Pac-12 cold feet, but I would think they are very keen to add UNLV to their ranks. The Pac-12 played their conference title games for football and men's basketball in Vegas, so I would imagine they would attempt to keep that market in their conference.
However, if they are absolutely set on making it the Pac-State Conference, they probably have their sights on Utah State, San Jose State, New Mexico State, Texas State, Arkansas State, Georgia State, App State, Kennesaw State, Kent State, and Ball State. Middle Tennessee fell off the radar when they dropped State from their name.
Brendan Marks in The Athletic today has the sanest, most thorough look at the ACC and its stability. Very good reading, some good new info (to me anyway)...of course this won't stop some twerp in his basement from saying schools are leaving for the B1G next week, but I think this gives us a sober view of where we are now. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/57...reedailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=15690329
King of Defense
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It'd be interesting to see what happens if one conference takes a contrarian approach compared with the others. If the PACx reboots regionally and makes it work, and then if some other conferences start to feel the strain of overreaching, maybe we'd see a rethink.
I can't pretend the genie is going back in the bottle -- though if sanity ever prevails and the NCAA starts treating football differently than it treats other sports, maybe?
