Obviously the MW has advantages of regionality.
Again makes no sense.
There would be no fraud or collusion if they could do anything else. So why purposely sign agreement that is a terrible deal for you, cuts the legs off expansion down the road and opens yourself up to collusion by doing so.
I get it. It is us vs them on this board (with 1 Coug on this side). We love to shit on the PAC every chance we get. They didn't thimk we were worthy at first and they have screwed up our conference. So we talk try to laugh at them.
Ever hear of Occam's Razor?
I dont see a single reason why the PAC would sign the agreement if they actually had any other real options.
We had them by the short and curlies. Gloria took advantage and did what she thought was best for the MW. I don't fault her for that. But if her end game was to do a reverse merger with the PAC a more reasonable agreement would have gone a long way. And I am just talking about the price for those games, not even the poaching agreement. She then tried to raise it another 400-500k for year 2. She pushed hard they pushed back and now we are here.
I've said numerous times.
Wish we had joined.
PAC is a better conference top to bottom with more upside.
We did not have them at any disadvantage though.
They 100% could have put together an independent schedule vs the scheduling agreement with MWC.
They willfully entered that agreement with zero intention of honoring it. I can say with confidence (though not 100% evidence) SDSU/BOISE/WSU/OSU were planning this before the scheduling agreement was ever signed.
Why would Gloria hire a 'threat analysis' firm otherwise? She new it was a possibility. They created the poaching fees to guard against it. PAC signed it anyway.
PAC will end up with better media deal.
But it is a massive and I mean massive pie in the face if their lineup goes from WSU/OSU/SDSU/BOISE/FRESNO/CSU/USU plus the four AAC schools to them plus Texas State. Better than the MWC ? Absolutely...Infinitely better or nearly a power conference which was their goal? Nope.
I'd argue as a football conference they'll be better than the AAC but not leaps and bounds better.
