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  1. Problem with looking at this year's attendance numbers is that we're still in a pandemic, loads of people are still staying away from large crowds, especially older folks. Until the pandemic ends, we'll continue to see lackluster attendance numbers across the board for the G5's.
  2. Gonzaga is a juggernaut, not just some flash in the pan, they are consistently good. You can fly into Spokane from pretty much every major city, sure you might have a layover in SLC, but you get to enjoy the views of the mountains from your steel and glass confines. ;-)
  3. CUSA and the SBC need to work out a merger/geographic fit between the two of them, AAC doesn't seem to be interested which is dumb. I'm all for giving the Zags the Boise treatment to get them to join the MWC.
  4. I wonder why the MWC didn't hold onto SMU and TCU in the first place after they bailed on the WAC and the Texas schools joined C-USA? Sure they eventually took TCU, who lasted for a hot minute, but why didn't they replace them with SMU if they are so desirable? Adding UNT and SMU would be a good grab. I'm with our UNT visitor, I hate private schools, all of them (and I send my youngest to a private HS, but that is a whole other issue), spoiled trust funders.
  5. the B12 is on the cusp of being the Big East Part II, it wouldn't take much for the P4 schools to decimate the B12. The B12 could easily be the next AAC + byu.
  6. You'd want us to grab a small private school two states away from our nearest member? WHY? I do agree that there aren't any real good options for the MWC to expand with though, Memphis and SMU? Seems stupid for both of them to want to join us, they have large exit fees and for what? Joining another far-flung conference that's mostly West Coast based? Not happening.
  7. Just for fun I popped over to the SMU message board, they have some realistic fans but most seem to think they can somehow lure away three MWC schools to join their far flung conference because they have a better TV contract. Even if that was true, which is not the case as many have argued successfully I believe, the exit fees likely wouldn't even cover any perceived increase in TV revenue, especially considering the duration of those contracts and how volatile conference membership is these days. Fact is, the AAC can only hope to add the top tier of C-USA, then C-USA loads up from the Sun Belt, the Sun Belt becomes the new WAC. That's the reality here. If the B12 was poaching 3 MWC schools, they'd have an argument of being able to attract the best of who's left, but the reality is, they are the conference that's wounded right now, not ours.
  8. That's what I was thinking, which is why a rumor of them reaching out the MWC is a joke.
  9. Interesting rumor, but it's news to me that SMU has reached out. SMU and Rice to the MW would be reminiscent of the the WAC-16.
  10. Boise to the B12? Yea that makes sense, closest road trip would be Kansas State, 19 hr drive from Boise to Manhattan. You think they'd take Boise FB only? Olympic sports would be fun.
  11. Why would the B12 want to subsidise those schools? B12 takes two schools and two only, keep the hunger mouths to a few. My guess is that they probably want two teams between the midwest plains schools and WV, just like the Kansas State Pres said to his boosters off the record about a month ago. AAC prepare to get raided.
  12. They've always got the Sun Belt, If only they could beat the SB Champs? Oh well...
  13. Going to call it right now, BIG12 goes after UCF and Cinci and stays put, if they go back to 12 they are still keep looking eastward (sorry ybu). AAC backfills from CUSA, CUSA backfills from the Sun Belt, New Mexico State finally finds a new home and the WAC keeps sucking.
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