1Tripoda said:

I would extend Coach O with a raise before I think about that.

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

This pretty much explains how we got here.

And now it is Barry Odom's sworn duty to kick the @#$% $%@#$ @#$%& out of SDSU this year.

You'll understand when you read the quote.

UNLV was NEVER in the initial talks.

ALSO every school left should be able to dissolve based on lack of faith and ineptitude of commisioner.

You'll understand when you read this.

Threatcaster..

Remember that word..

Your head will spin.

'We had no sense this was coming': Inside the Pac-12's four-team expansion

From 12 to 2 to 6 schools and counting, here's how the foremost western conference stayed alive.

www.espn.com

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RebelScrub said:

I saw it on fake news cnn.

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reagan21 said:

How old are your friends?

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unlv7163 said:

I get the cities being large markets, but even in those cities, Tennessee and LSU are king. Just can’t imagine anyone would say ‘here’s another $20m per season since you got those 2 universities. I could be completely wrong however.

From your early post, I do agree that taking care of football is a priority, just thought a stronger basketball conference could help a little bit overall.

At the end of the day, we are not in a good postiition presently. Best thing we can do is continue to improve our standing by continuing to improve football. It’s unlikely we finish well enough to qualify for the playoffs, but doing so would go a long way obviously.

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Masked_rebel said:

Stop trying to build a conference with basketball only members. There's not going to be enough money to go around for the football schools, why bring in basketball only programs. Again, these media deals aren't being paid because basketball. If they don't have football, we don't have anything to give them.

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

Memphis has been solid football program for a bit now. Tulane more recently. Both are in pretty large markets.

Memphis has been rumored in the past for both ACC and I think Big12 even kicked the tires.

I think Cal/Stanford at least for the near future are staying put.

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Meister_Rebel said:

This is me sitting back.

I took a break from here to watch the volleyball game vs Hawaii. Hawaii is a damn good team. In a packed sold out COX pavilion with over 3000 fans we beat them. UNLV (6-2) and Hawaii (6-2) UNLV wins in 5 sets with the 5th set going to 15-13. Hell of a match.

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unlv7163 said:

If we are rebuilding the MWC, my first choice would be to probably try to get to 9 for football and attempt to get Gonzaga, St Mary’s and maybe Pepperdine or San Diego for basketball and other sports. I’d attempt to get UTSA and another Texas school (Texas St, Rice or N Texas) first. After that than I don’t think I’d look at the Dakota and/or Montana schools. NDSU is at least a name brand (relatively speaking) and would help at least a little with a new media deal.

That being said, if the ACC is able to make Clemson and Florida St happy and convince them to stay and stabilizes that conference, the new PAC becomes a stronger possibility. I do think the PAC will try to get to 9, so even if Memphis and Tulane join them, then it would still leave them a school shy (without the possibility of Cal/Stanford coming back) and I think we’d make the most sense in that scenario. Who knows though. These things change daily it seems. Personally, I’m not sure why Memphis and Tulane are all that appealing. Can’t imagine it would improve any media deal that much and would suck for those 2 schools logistically.

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unlv7163 said:

If we are rebuilding the MWC, my first choice would be to probably try to get to 9 for football and attempt to get Gonzaga, St Mary’s and maybe Pepperdine or San Diego for basketball and other sports. I’d attempt to get UTSA and another Texas school (Texas St, Rice or N Texas) first. After that than I don’t think I’d look at the Dakota and/or Montana schools. NDSU is at least a name brand (relatively speaking) and would help at least a little with a new media deal.

That being said, if the ACC is able to make Clemson and Florida St happy and convince them to stay and stabilizes that conference, the new PAC becomes a stronger possibility. I do think the PAC will try to get to 9, so even if Memphis and Tulane join them, then it would still leave them a school shy (without the possibility of Cal/Stanford coming back) and I think we’d make the most sense in that scenario. Who knows though. These things change daily it seems. Personally, I’m not sure why Memphis and Tulane are all that appealing. Can’t imagine it would improve any media deal that much and would suck for those 2 schools logistically.

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

NIU would be great but would they want that travel?

Agree I think 2 FCS schools might be too many.

Stealing from yours a bit.

UNLV
RENO
USU
WYO
UH
UNM
SJSU

Plus (I'm sticking with Tulsa trying to keep some regionalism)

TULSA
N TEXAS (Or Texas State)
LA Tech
ND STATE (OR MONTANA)
RICE

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Meister_Rebel said:

This is me sitting back.

I took a break from here to watch the volleyball gave vs Hawaii. Hawaii is a damn good team. In a packed sold out COX pavilion with over 3000 fans we beat them. UNLV (6-2) and Hawaii (6-2) UNLV wins in 5 sets with the 5th set going to 15-13. Hell of a match.

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Rod_the_Rebel said:

Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Isn’t this fun?

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Boston Rebel 2 said:

If the President and AD feel we will eventually be included that is hopeful anyway.

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

This sounds at the least that there are on going talks and UNLV brass believe an invite may be coming.

But who knows could just be posturing.

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Rosegreen1 said:

Are they ever solid in this era of NIL?

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