Masked_rebel said:

If that's the case that's wild... I think behind the scenes if I was Memphis, I'd be talking to UNLV and trying to package ourselves to the Big 12 together. We're both critical to any of the 3 conferences being legit... why not band together and try and upsale ourselves... heck the Big 12 could do a 4 team expansion with 2 football/basketball combos and Gonzaga/UCONN... they aren't getting ACC teams anytime soon as it appears they're holding themselves together. So why wait to get poached when you can solidify yourselves with the last 2 best remaining future football programs and 2 premier basketball teams as well...

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reagan21 said:

"Tonight's reruns of The Flash, Gossip Girl, and Supernatural will not be seen this evening. Instead you will get the Mighty Spartans of San Jose in Pullman Washington to take on the Cougars of Washington State."

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Loyal Coug1 said:

Shifting gears a bit, I'm sure you all will be glued to the set tonight (7PM Pacific, 3-0 WSU vs 3-0 SJSU in Pullman, The CW network). Game is apparently a near sellout. Friday night in Pullman, the fans will be juiced. Worth watching simply to see all the coed camera shots. Looks like the marquee game for the MW this weekend. You guys and SDSU both have byes I guess?

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Masked_rebel said:

If that's the case that's wild... I think behind the scenes if I was Memphis, I'd be talking to UNLV and trying to package ourselves to the Big 12 together. We're both critical to any of the 3 conferences being legit... why not band together and try and upsale ourselves... heck the Big 12 could do a 4 team expansion with 2 football/basketball combos and Gonzaga/UCONN... they aren't getting ACC teams anytime soon as it appears they're holding themselves together. So why wait to get poached when you can solidify yourselves with the last 2 best remaining future football programs and 2 premier basketball teams as well...

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1Tripoda said:

SJSU lost both of their coaches and starting QB. You will beat them. They are not at UNLV level.

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

All I'm saying is if UNLV is beating SDSU later in the season.

1- Run up the score if possible. I'm talking up 28 with 5 minutes left...Play action passes. Reverses. You absolutely bury them.

2- Same scenario crowd must begin a chant of 'Meet the metrics' in response to SDSU president saying we didn't 'meet the metrics.'

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LVRebel2000 said:

There are so many "what if" scenarios right now, who really knows. I guess if it came down to it, the PAC could add 2 crappy schools if needed, just to get to 8 teams. Then, once the new MWC media agreement gets worked out, with teams getting less money, I would think that the MWC would amend the exit fees, as they're not in line with the amount of money that the conference is bringing in, then teams could bounce after that.

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LVRebel2000 said:

That's way too difficult...I went with 12345

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Loyal Coug1 said:

Shifting gears a bit, I'm sure you all will be glued to the set tonight (7PM Pacific, 3-0 WSU vs 3-0 SJSU in Pullman, The CW network). Game is apparently a near sellout. Friday night in Pullman, the fans will be juiced. Worth watching simply to see all the coed camera shots. Looks like the marquee game for the MW this weekend. You guys and SDSU both have byes I guess?

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

Try..

P@ssword1

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LVRebel2000 said:

Maybe I'll try logging out entirely, then back on directly in the Wazzu site. Just have to make sure I remember my password ...

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Rebel1986 said:

There is another way to look at it. If UNLV continues to improve, then Washington State and Oregon State will never get a sniff of the playoffs!

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Loyal Coug1 said:

Well since we (WAZZUWATCH) haven't had an Admin or moderator for years, I doubt that. The last Admin we had banned me 5-6 years ago for some unseemly posts towards another poster (he got banned too) so I lurked around for years and then reinvented myself as Loyal Coug1.

Try again. If you are logged in to Rivals, you should be fine. In desperation, make your post here and have Meister copy and paste/post on your behalf. Would love to see some of you guys converse with the gang of ostrich heads I have to try to reason with.

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LVRebel2000 said:

Maybe they banned me from the last time I was snooping around, who knows?

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InZoneU said:

The PAC TV deal for 2026 is not even in place, nobody has any idea what that equates to 2 years down the road. Where is the $10MM coming from?

All the P12 is, is a brand name. I mean I get what you're saying, but it's not as strong nationally as you think. We all know most of the rest of the USA thought the previous P12 was ass already and now it has a bunch of MWC and AAC teams with Wazzu and Oregon State? Meh.

There is also no reasonable assumption UNLV's going to stick it out in the MWC.

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Loyal Coug1 said:

I feel like I'm watching a rerun of Get Smart. Question is, who is Maxwell Smart and who is Agent 99? Gloria or Teresa?

Of course Teresa wanted to keep The Pac alive - otherwise she would have been knocking on Gloria's door begging for a job in 2 years. We still need to know what the Pac offered in terms of help with the exit fees. This notion of UNLV (and maybe AF and/or Wyoming?) hanging around to collect poaching fees and an increased share of conference revenue (withholdings from your Traitorous 4) then bolting later brings some intrigue to all of this. The TBD "exit fees" for Memphis/Tulane or whoever from the AAC adds to the intrigue.

So here's my "maybe" scenario: UNLV (and maybe the afore-mentioned AF and/or Wyoming or SJSU or even USU) have a secret handshake deal to join the Pac after they get some poaching, etc. money. The Pac offers Memphis and Tulane on a "figure out what your exit fee is then let's talk more" level. The Pac whispers to The CW or others, and they start to hash out a tentative TV deal.

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Masked_rebel said:

You say merge easily but every interview with the new commissioner points to her not wanting to do that. If it was easy it would've been done. She wanted to have both all the money or a large portion of it and get a larger tv deal cut to join and when the MWC turned around and said you need us, she flipped to trying to break them apart. There is assumptions a tv deal was ar least discussed but we also know Boise and SDSU think very highly of themselves and could easily be sold to join a new conference whose outlook has potential to be better than MWC for them if they defect. Then she offered to pay their fees so it became a no brainer... the problem now is you have 2-4 other programs asking for same deal and money gets tight, plus whatever assurances and promises were made to the 4 defectors... it's not easy

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