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  1. Probably for the best, nobody here really gives a shit about UCF’s Twitter account.
  2. Agreed. If a fan of a Pac-12 school headed to the Big 12 wants to argue with a fan of Pac-12 school headed to the WCC/MWC because the first fan is butt hurt that they had to follow a certain WCC school to the Big 12 and the second fan is butt hurt at being left behind and if both fans decide they want to bitch at each other on the MWC message board, I’m all for it. The more the merrier.
  3. I’m not saying non-MWC members can’t post here, don’t put words in my mouth. What I AM saying is it’s stupid as hell to make your point 40 days before WSU will officially be a MWC member in baseball.
  4. I mean to be fair (and yes I know these things haven’t technically gone into affect yet), WSU is an affiliate member of the MWC and has a football scheduling agreement with the MWC.
  5. Not trying to be a dick here, but why should anybody care about this anymore? BYU’s conference situation is settled and they ended up in a great situation. I have always felt their all around athletic department should be in a power conference, so I’m happy for them and their fans.
  6. That’d be a shame. But yea if the Texas schools leave the WAC would be in big trouble. I wonder if the Big West would consider adding Cal Baptist? Would allow them to get to 12 without upsetting the UC/CSU balance.
  7. I like the moves by CUSA and the WCC. I think Cal Baptist would have been a better add than Seattle, but still think Seattle works in the WCC, natural fit. Other than the obvious OSU/WSU situation that needs to be resolved, last FBS shoe to drop is the MAC adding a 14th school. If it comes at the expense of the CUSA then that will obviously create another move to be made.
  8. I don’t think any B1G/SEC schools will be left behind in an official breakaway for a lot of reasons. But the only way those B1G schools are “protected” is they would be cut a check if they were left out. Would it be a big ass check? Absolutely. But it would just be a check.
  9. And even IF the Pac-2 were able to just eat that $108M exit fee bill for 6 MWC schools, they would have to deal with the very real problem of them essentially elevating schools that could take their spot in a rebuilt ACC down the road. They would be putting themselves on equal footing for 6 years with a lot schools that, if perception is equal, would make a hell of a lot more sense geographically for a rebuilding ACC. SDSU and CSU specifically come to mind. I could easily see the ACC bringing in a bunch of AAC schools and just supplementing them with some of the more eastern and southern MWC schools. But if the Pac-2 can keep that war chest, to the extent it exists, then they can sort of temporarily boost their budgets to give them the best chance of dominating MWC schools in those 6 years. Then maybe their brand will be strong enough to overcompensate for those geographical limitations. Thats why I don’t think the math works for a Pac-8. Both OSU/WSU and the MWC-6 will be too heavily incentivized to have the other side pay the exit fees.
  10. Yea the idea that the Pac-2 can get 6 MWC schools to join them is just a bunch of dumb hopium. The math doesn’t work. Either the Pac-2 will have to pay the exit fees, in which case the move doesn’t make financial sense for them. Or, the MWC-6 will pay the exit fees, in which case the move doesn’t make financial sense for them. The idea that the money for a Pac-8 will be so great that it will offset the exit fees is fantasy land bullshit. Like let’s say the Pac-8 happens (LOL). They sign a new TV deal for, I dunno, 8-10 million a year for 6 years. So that TV deal runs through 2032 I believe. Shave off 3M per year to cover the 18M exit fee over those 6 years. So it’s really 5-7M per year for the MWC schools. As they compete against the Pac-2 who will spend several of those years with a budget temporarily inflated by their war chest. And what is going to happen at the end of that deal? BEST case scenario is the ACC will be gutted just as the TV deal is up for renegotiation. Now some of those MWC-6 will inevitably be left out of some rebuilt ACC cross country Frankenstein. Basically the rug will be pulled out from them before they even had a chance to really profit from the move as they ask nicely to be let back into the MWC. Or the MWC schools can just, you know, wait.
  11. Clemson suing the ACC now as well over exit fees. I will repeat, the litigation does not need to get to trial for the ACC dam to break. Just getting to discovery COULD give rise to a settlement at some point in the discovery process. That is not to say it would DEFINITELY lead to a settlement, but it COULD. Inevitably there will be fights over what is discoverable, which will continue to bog things down. But the potential is certainly out there for the ACC to lose on a discovery motion over the next year and an half and, faced with the prospect of turning over stuff they know will sink them, they just settle. Again, NOT saying this WILL happen. But there is this narrative that because a TRIAL would be many years away that there is NO chance the ACC litigation will resolve itself by the middle or end of next year, which is something of a “hard deadline” on a merge because of the MWC TV deal. And, that’s just not the case (no pun intended). My gut tells me OSU/WSU will have to commit to a merge before any ACC schools are able to leave though. But I wouldn’t be shocked if a settlement is reached within the next year, year and a half.
  12. They should just dust off the PCC name. I mean it’s a LOT of dust to dust off, but still a cool name IMO.
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