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[bruinbison]

Basically 50% of all CUSA games are midweek now.

Each school plays at least 4 midweek games. Last week of September and all of October is midweek.
Believe MAC does this in November instead.

So Chapo’s hissy fit “TUES/WED STRAWMAN BULLSHIT”
reply is “lacking in accuracy”?
Plus the ESPN throw-in…


Kinda like how he was just a few weeks off on the Mountain West schedules…

[BigHorns]

Pretty good article about the OSU/Wazzu situation.

Still a lot of stuff to be decided.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...und-labor-day/

OSU/WSU aren't going to make a move until they see what happens with Cal and Stanford.
Cal and Stanford meanwhile are going to do everything they can to get into ACC or B12.

Supposedly they are one vote shy of getting into ACC, so the focus for now is flipping one vote there.
FSU, Clemson, UNC, NC St are the no votes.

This could all take more time to play out, especially to see the G5 cascade.
I'm thinking by around December timeframe things should decided. By then all the schools will want a plan, because time starts to work against them for recruiting, media deals, and everything else.

An interesting question is how long will Cal and Stanford keep trying to flip a vote if it stays deadlocked?
If they can't join another P4, then rebuilding the PAC becomes an option, if enough time for that remains.
At least 6-10 G5 schools applied to be PAC members, before the shit hit the fan.

[BigHorns]

Seems like the B12 rumors have been debunked. https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/s...085447291?s=20

That means it's likely ACC, rebuild PAC, or go Indy for Cal and Stanford.
I don't think their pride will let them join a G5, and those 2 could possibly have near Notre Dame status as Indy.

[HerdBot]

Basically 50% of all CUSA games are midweek now.

Each school plays at least 4 midweek games. Last week of September and all of October is midweek.
Believe MAC does this in November instead.

Jaxksonville State and Sam Houston play 5 mid week, 2 at home

EEvery team has minimum of 4 games mid week, 2 at home

Start times are typically between 6-8 pm

Home schedule is mostly 12 games. This could make midweek games a box score. Who would travel mid week?

So the biggest benefit would be more visible road games

[MWC]

Michael Silver
@MikeSilver
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3h
It looks increasingly likely that Cal, Stanford and SMU and the ACC will close a deal to bring those three schools to the conference, in all sports in which the ACC competes

Silver is a reputable reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle

[El_Chapo]

Michael Silver
@MikeSilver
·
3h
It looks increasingly likely that Cal, Stanford and SMU and the ACC will close a deal to bring those three schools to the conference, in all sports in which the ACC competes

Silver is a reputable reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle

WSU/OSU to the MWC put them at 13 members

NDSU for team #14 (or add NDSU and 2 others from the south) to get to 16 and have 8 and 8 per division

[MWC]

WSU/OSU to the MWC put them at 13 members

NDSU for team #14 (or add NDSU and 2 others from the south) to get to 16 and have 8 and 8 per division

WSU/OSU would make 14 for football. 13 for all other sports..

[MWC]

"https://sports360az.com/2023/08/wilner-all-about-washington-state-and-oregon-state-from-the-pac-2-and-a-reverse-merger-with-the-mw-to-the-bylaws-and-war-chest/amp/"

[HerdBot]

WSU/OSU to the MWC put them at 13 members

NDSU for team #14 (or add NDSU and 2 others from the south) to get to 16 and have 8 and 8 per division

But the AAC will be down 1 and arguably their best team. Who do they raid to get back to 14?

[Professor Chaos]

Stanford and Cal to the Atlantic Coast Conference. All the sharks have now been jumped by this effed up realignment carousel.