A new and better FBS thread

[taper]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oth...-5/ar-AA1nthB5
Pac-12 aka Pac-2 aka 2Pac has officially lost their autonomy status. Their only realistic option is joining the MWC, possibly with some rebranding. If you'd paid any attention to this saga, holy cow the PAC is a disaster. Seriously, how does this kind of incompetence exist at this level?

[reformedUNDfan]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oth...-5/ar-AA1nthB5
Pac-12 aka Pac-2 aka 2Pac has officially lost their autonomy status. Their only realistic option is joining the MWC, possibly with some rebranding. If you'd paid any attention to this saga, holy cow the PAC is a disaster. Seriously, how does this kind of incompetence exist at this level?

The professional administrative class is corrupt and incompetent at every level. Some just have a larger range of permissible failure.

[WhoRepsTheLurker]

Interesting take from FCS AGS via 'caribeanhen' re UD FBS move. Props to 'Mr Chicken' … awk

"The president of UD is telling everyone a big part of this move has to do with the coming battle between all of these colleges trying to get a dwindling number of potential students into their classrooms and the population is moving south…. Mr Chicken was all over it"

I know some UD faculty and they are not at all pleased with the move, but this is probably par for the course with academics. I’ll be curious to see how it shakes out for UD., but I think it’s a good move for them

https://www.newsweek.com/population-...inking-1893641

If he's right, stay away from the MAC for sure. SE and Mountain West are the place to be, particularly TX

The "battle to get a dwindling number of potential students" will be an issue for ND (more so than SD, imo ... see Canada) and I fear that some difficult decisions loom, although I doubt anyone in Bismarck wants to touch it

[BigHorns]

I’ve heard it directly from up high in the athletic department that multiple times (SDSU’s failed leaving for the PAC being the latest) that we were on the cusp of being admitted to the MW (probably football only). This latest time being the closest but there was another time 3ish years ago where it almost went through.

They’re working on it, and it’s not much of a secret if they were willing to tell me lol

MW is obviously where we fit best. Still TBD how everything shakes out with the PAC-2. There's a lot of rumblings they are still trying to rebuild and break off with a group of the "top" G5 schools from MW and possibly elsewhere. Good to hear more directly we are working that angle.