First of all, the AAC is not barren in hoops but quite frankly still solid. Second of all, the add of Wichita State was strictly a block move against the New Big East and hopefully Wichita State would continue to be successful but have not. Thirdly, the struggles of Wichita State should serve as a warning about adding schools that are currently doing well in hoops but have more to do with whom the head coaches are in basketball and not so much the schools and their recent history of success. Fourthly, once head coach in both men’s and women’s basketball were gone they were not able to compete in recruiting and finding success in head coaches after the departures and AAC is vastly tougher competition than MVC as all FBS conferences have superior athletes and athletics and athletic departments and programs compared to FCS conferences and non football conferences and colleges.
I say offer Memphis as much money as you can. If that does not work then offer the top Performing Montana and North Dakota teams an offer that pays there 5 million dollars fbs fee. If you don’t get them than offer SacState a deal that pays them Less than the other teams until they don’t place last place last in the conference in football. Once they don’t place last than you give them a full share. Also offer University of Connecticut a place for their football team. Dont give them any money upfront and not a lot of media money until they commit their basketball team in someone fashion. Next offer University of el Paso.
My thoughts: Sacramento St, New Mexico St, Texas St, are the 3 teams to Mountain West Conference. Get to 10 and then see if anymore will add money to next tv deal or not.
Under new management the PAC still over estimated themselves. It was a bad decision to not lock up UNLV with the other big 4 MW teams because they thought they could do better. They should have also locked up USAF. If they could only convince 1 of those then get Utah St. They should have had an 8 team conference on the roll out and then go after 2-4 AAC teams. Its fine to add Gongzaga and St Mary's for all other sports but without a strong football conference they are just another G6. Rice and North Texas St doesn't excite anyone. Now they are no different than what the MWC was.
Why wouldn't Louisiana Ragin Cajuns and Louisiana Tech Bulldogs join the PAC-12, while Texas State Bobcats, U.T.E.P Miners and New Mexico State Aggies join the MWC?
Pac-12 will add Gonzaga & Grand Canyon as non-football members, and then for football there's less certainty, I would add North Texas, UTEP & New Mexico State
What should have been Mountain Pac Oregon St Washington St Boise St Utah St Colorado St Wyoming San Diego St Fresno St UNLV New Mexico Memphis N. Texas BB only Gonzaga Saint Maries
LOL they are too busy frivolously suing the MWC, when the dust settles the MWC will still be a better conference. The poor leadership of the Whack PAC is dying on the vine, and the Deviant five allowed OSU & WSU to have all the power. It will be interesting if any teams start to renege as they realize their Media Deal is dwindling by the day.
What about a non-football school to reach the eight needed with U-Conn as a football only? Think about Cal State Fullerton, the campus is 7 miles from Anaheim Stadium. Consider what Georgia St. did to Turner Field. The Pac could add CSFU to reach 8, MLB Angels move to a new stadium in the next 5 years & the Titans restart a football program that ended in the 1990's.
There's a lot more time than those with antsy pants believe. It may hurt some feelings, but a merger would've been far too much of demotion for OSU and Wazzu, who have better overall programs than ANY of the non-original P12 schools. The best conferences are going to be those with ZERO bottom schools.
The PAC conference is set as is. Everything else is just talk. Most of it is negative. They could literally invite any team at this point and it wouldn't hurt or add anything else to the table. Give it 5-10 years the PAC conference regains power status. Boise State will rebuild this conference by the work they do alone
Nah. See this is why you don’t vote Democrat because ignorance like this. The AAC actually had Autonomy Status and was one school shy of having 8 current Autonomy Status colleges as members and had added 4 former Autonomy Status schools and were not allowed to retain Autonomy Status. They then performed the best out of all G5 conferences over the past 11 out of 12 years essentially and outperformed two to three P5 conferences multiple times over the years and still unable to regain Autonomy Status. The last two years of the BCS era at least the AAC were allowed to retain their status before losing it starting in the CFP4/NY6 era. The PAC could not even get that much. My point is that any conference that loses its Autonomy status will not be able to regain it no matter what they do.
@@michaelwall3393You're just being delusional. The AAC never had autonomy STATUS. Never at any point. And the AAC has already lost its best members. It's status is getting worse and worse. Not to mention the AAC only was doing good because Boise State had a couple of off years. Our program started the David vs Goliath conversation. We've battled with the best and come out victorious. The AAC has done nothing but ride the coattails of Boise State. The PAC conference as of now is the top conference outside of the Power conferences. Hands down no doubt about it.
