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.
