If I’m UNLV I am trying to join this new Pac 12… MWC looks like it may not last
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SMU community has already put up a sizable capital investment in ACC. That’s not set to seek a return for quite some time. No way in hell they void that with what’s at stake.
The problem for Idaho would be their football stadium is just an airplane hanger with the uprights hanging from the roof.
In my opinion, coastal-based conferences that are aiming to compete against the Big 12, SEC and Big Ten are not sustainable.
Schools I want to end up seeing in the PAC:
Rice
Tulane
Mempiss
Cal
Stanford
Utah State
UNLV
Wyoming
My prediction is UNLV and Utah State are going to get the chip, Ca/Stanford can easily go back when the ACC falls (and in that case to rebuild they’ll add Mempiss/Temple/UCONN/who?)
Taking Rice and Tulane opens up a spot for Air Force and another team in the AAC. Possibly UNM?
The Mountain West will be dead dead at that point. It’ll just let those teams into the AAC/MAC whatever, and then lock out the Group of X
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I feel like Stanford and Cal have too much pride to join the current schools in the pac along with the 4 MWC coming in
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Ya know what’s funny?
The PAC used to turn up its nose at schools that weren’t R1.
Now they’re going to be in a conference with Fresno State, San Diego State, Boise State, etc.
Will Califord really hold its nose and join them as well?
I DUNNO!!!
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South Florida has invested in a new on-campus stadium and athletics upgrades. That might come back to help them.
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Plus they would have to pay the $5 million entry fee to come back to FBS.
Right, that is $5MM that could go towards a bigger and better airplane hangar to house Idahos stadium.
I mean the MWC was a pretty solid league all in all but I would argue that trimming some fat and adding WSU and OSU to the mix makes this more comparable to AAC 1.0 which was the clear cut best of the rest league.
That arena and the one for Idaho State are similar. The state of Idaho has refused ot invest in upgrading anything besides the facilities in BOise, the capital. SOund familiar? UGH. FOr al our issues, Utah does still manage to rise above the horrific toxic swamp that is Idaho these years.
I don’t know about Idaho or Utah, but In Texas, the school, not the state, has to pay for athletic facilitiles. UH students approved a student service fee increase to help fund TDECU Stadium when it was built.
At Sam Houston, they tried to get the students to do the same since their stadium seats less than 15K, and they turned it down. UTSA did the same for basketball and baseball.
Come on now, Texas is it;s own damn planet, and can’t accurately be compared to a tiny place like Idaho (population). A school’s capital improvement projects aren’t standard budget items at all. Neither Idaho state-run university outside of Boise has any sort of an internal budge to ever finance a new field/arena. Plus, they’ll always make the argument about not having to worry about weather… The facilities may have been acceptable when built in the 60s and even into the 80s, but 40 years later they are a disgrace (even if their physical condition is acceptable).
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They need to add Utah State, New Mexico or NM State, and UNLV.
Agree the MWC was solid, but nothing the PAC2 can add from the MWC or any other non P4 conference elevates them to make a P5. Nobody is going to leave a current P4 conference to join them unless they’re banking on FSU and Clemson blowing up the ACC and Cal and Stanford come limping back.
Agreed, but as he said, with a few more decent ads, this may prove to be the best “Group of Six” league.
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ACC is in trouble if the PAC takes all the good remaining G5 schools
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