A new and better FBS thread

[Kevin]

Their fans give a shit. Makes it fun. But if they wanna stay in the fcs... Fuck em, we out.

Cool stadiums too. Beats playing in the shacks of UXD.

[reformedUNDfan]

I think my oft stated opinion that the montana's are scrubs and XDSU deserve better is ringing pretty true.

Ambitionless scrub programs

[BigHorns]

ESPN is reporting it is known that the AAC and Air Force are in discussions about Air Force joining the conference.

I am starting to wonder how long the MWC can stan still and not make some moves to settle the nerves of the remaining members.

1) Where would those remaining members go? Some aren't wanted by PAC or AAC. They might lose both Air Force and UNLV, but probably not much more. Nevada could potentially go as a package deal with UNLV.

2) The remaining members are the ones that have to vote on who to add.

These things always get a little messy (see implosions and rebuild of CUSA and PAC). I don't know that they will make any decisions or official invites until its clear who is staying and who is leaving. At least that's been the pattern elsewhere.

[NDSU92]

https://frontofficesports.com/whats-...-12-expansion/

Best article (by a sports business publication, to boot) that summarizes the PAC/MW remaining financial situation. Like I’d mentioned before, the PAC is running out of money to pay the MW for more schools. PAC says they want to add 2-4 more schools, but it’s looking increasingly unlikely that they will come from the MW.

The PAC wants to move fast they say, but I don’t see how they can until they get a media deal at least agreed upon in principle. No AAC school is moving to the PAC without a serious bump in revenue. Again, in addition to terrible travel, they would be flipping their footprint from east coast to west coast - away from alumni, recruits, regional peers, and (most of all) large media markets.

If you’re the president of Tulsa, Memphis, Tulane, etc. are you really wanting to abandon the safe, comfy confines of the AAC for a wild ass question mark of a conference on the west coast?

My wild ass theory remains that no one from the AAC defects, PAC is left either looking at UNLV and Nevada (which was their backup plan all along) or… …FCS.

[Gully]

so you're saying there's a chance....

[ndsubison1]

Sam Houston St would be an interesting add for MWC. Wont be surprised if theyre a candidate.

[Professor Chaos]

https://frontofficesports.com/whats-...-12-expansion/

Best article (by a sports business publication, to boot) that summarizes the PAC/MW remaining financial situation. Like I’d mentioned before, the PAC is running out of money to pay the MW for more schools. PAC says they want to add 2-4 more schools, but it’s looking increasingly unlikely that they will come from the MW.

The PAC wants to move fast they say, but I don’t see how they can until they get a media deal at least agreed upon in principle. No AAC school is moving to the PAC without a serious bump in revenue. Again, in addition to terrible travel, they would be flipping their footprint from east coast to west coast - away from alumni, recruits, regional peers, and (most of all) large media markets.

If you’re the president of Tulsa, Memphis, Tulane, etc. are you really wanting to abandon the safe, comfy confines of the AAC for a wild ass question mark of a conference on the west coast?

My wild ass theory remains that no one from the AAC defects, PAC is left either looking at UNLV and Nevada (which was their backup plan all along) or… …FCS.

How insane would it be if after years of being left out of the FBS discussion NDSU is suddenly wanted by two FBS conferences at the same time???

<ok now the BS is getting deep >

[NDSU92]

Sam Houston St would be an interesting add for MWC. Wont be surprised if theyre a candidate.

Would be ultimate dumpster diving. The school is vacant on weekends. Commuter teacher’s college. Words told to me by someone who worked there for a long time.

[MWC]

https://frontofficesports.com/whats-...-12-expansion/

Best article (by a sports business publication, to boot) that summarizes the PAC/MW remaining financial situation. Like I’d mentioned before, the PAC is running out of money to pay the MW for more schools. PAC says they want to add 2-4 more schools, but it’s looking increasingly unlikely that they will come from the MW.

The PAC wants to move fast they say, but I don’t see how they can until they get a media deal at least agreed upon in principle. No AAC school is moving to the PAC without a serious bump in revenue. Again, in addition to terrible travel, they would be flipping their footprint from east coast to west coast - away from alumni, recruits, regional peers, and (most of all) large media markets.

If you’re the president of Tulsa, Memphis, Tulane, etc. are you really wanting to abandon the safe, comfy confines of the AAC for a wild ass question mark of a conference on the west coast?

My wild ass theory remains that no one from the AAC defects, PAC is left either looking at UNLV and Nevada (which was their backup plan all along) or… …FCS.

There is another path. The Pac and the AAC take at least 9 MW schools between them who would then vote to dissolve the conference. No exit fees, no poaching fees.. No MWC

[NDSU92]

There is another path. The Pac and the AAC take at least 9 MW schools between them who would then vote to dissolve the conference. No exit fees, no poaching fees.. No MWC

Sure, but they left the MW in the first place to get away from those schools and now they’d need to take 10 total because the four that left no longer have a vote.

Going to be the same litigation that the PAC went through. Hard to prove the AAC and PAC didn’t collude in your scenario. They would absolutely have to collude to make it happen. Prisoner’s dilemma.