NEXT PAC MEMBERS

[Bullmastiff 1]

This is pretty much based on what's being rumored on the twitterverse but this is how I thinknit unfolds.

Texas State seems the most likely full member. This gets the PAC to the required 8.

I think the PAC will add St Mary's all sports (Fill out there Olympic sports and strengthen their basketball further)

This is a guess but goes under the old where there's smoke there's fire and all that..

PAC invites New Mexico State as a football only member.

Hear me out..

1- NMSU comes super cheap. Their exit fee from CUSA is small.
2-PAC would probably like to get to a minimum of 9 FB schools for scheduling purposes. 5 OOC games is a logistics nightmare.
3- NMSU could likely be given 1 to 1.5 maybe 2 million a year as a FB only member in media deal. It would basically double their current CUSA media deal. They could then simply bury their other sports in the WAC or WCC or whatever.

 

[SilverSpoon]

This is pretty much based on what's being rumored on the twitterverse but this is how I thinknit unfolds.

Texas State seems the most likely full member. This gets the PAC to the required 8.

I think the PAC will add St Mary's all sports (Fill out there Olympic sports and strengthen their basketball further)

This is a guess but goes under the old where there's smoke there's fire and all that..

PAC invites New Mexico State as a football only member.

Hear me out..

1- NMSU comes super cheap. Their exit fee from CUSA is small.
2-PAC would probably like to get to a minimum of 9 FB schools for scheduling purposes. 5 OOC games is a logistics nightmare.
3- NMSU could likely be given 1 to 1.5 maybe 2 million a year as a FB only member in media deal. It would basically double their current CUSA media deal. They could then simply bury their other sports in the WAC or WCC or whatever.

I think you're spot on. Especially with the NMSU(football only) + WCC. Sainy Mary's won't have a choice but to join. Even if they get 1/2 of what Gonzaga is getting.

This turns the PAC into a conference of have and have-nots. And by a large margin. There's going to be a ton of animosity amongst their ranks.

 

[Pistol Pete 1]

Absolutely hilarious that WSU & OSU found it to be a good idea & preferable to give up millions of dollars so they could travel to San Marcos & Las Cruces instead of Laramie & Albuquerque. Could have taken the money and slid over to the Mountain WesT. With all that cash they would have been the top dogs.

 

[LocoRebel]

This is pretty much based on what's being rumored on the twitterverse but this is how I thinknit unfolds.

Texas State seems the most likely full member. This gets the PAC to the required 8.

I think the PAC will add St Mary's all sports (Fill out there Olympic sports and strengthen their basketball further)

This is a guess but goes under the old where there's smoke there's fire and all that..

PAC invites New Mexico State as a football only member.

Hear me out..

1- NMSU comes super cheap. Their exit fee from CUSA is small.
2-PAC would probably like to get to a minimum of 9 FB schools for scheduling purposes. 5 OOC games is a logistics nightmare.
3- NMSU could likely be given 1 to 1.5 maybe 2 million a year as a FB only member in media deal. It would basically double their current CUSA media deal. They could then simply bury their other sports in the WAC or WCC or whatever.

I have seen a lot of speculation that WAC will likely cease to exist before long. Apparently expecting a raid that will result in the leftovers returning to combinations of the Big South, Southland, big sky, etc... who knows if that's true. But if it is, nmsu finding a home for its non revenue sports and it's disaster of a basketball program isn't as obvious as it once was.

But it would be easy for PAC to get them at next to nothing for football, as you mentioned. I'm guessing it would be a nearly a last resort for pac, and nmsu would likely chomp at the bit

 

[dcut03]

This is pretty much based on what's being rumored on the twitterverse but this is how I thinknit unfolds.

Texas State seems the most likely full member. This gets the PAC to the required 8.

I think the PAC will add St Mary's all sports (Fill out there Olympic sports and strengthen their basketball further)

This is a guess but goes under the old where there's smoke there's fire and all that..

PAC invites New Mexico State as a football only member.

Hear me out..

1- NMSU comes super cheap. Their exit fee from CUSA is small.
2-PAC would probably like to get to a minimum of 9 FB schools for scheduling purposes. 5 OOC games is a logistics nightmare.
3- NMSU could likely be given 1 to 1.5 maybe 2 million a year as a FB only member in media deal. It would basically double their current CUSA media deal. They could then simply bury their other sports in the WAC or WCC or whatever.

I say no on NMSU.

Scheduling an extra OOC game is probably worth it vs giving them any share of the PAC deal. They would likely have to give them an equal CFP share too, being a football member. Though I would imagine the PAC will not be able to schedule with a MW all that easily, and vice versa, so that does make things a bit more difficult.

NMSU does nothing for them other than being a "warm body" of sorts. Very little potential in the future. Might as well go for Sam Houston over NMSU, they have been more relevant in football and has much more potential.

 

[Masked_rebel]

Pac has no interest in NMSU. Theres a reason why the MWC also didnt kick those tires. Its not a university that is committed to spending money and building their brands. They dont have it. They dont have the NIL opportunities to be competitive. The PAC is trying to build itself as a psuedo P5 conference brand and adding NMSU drags it down. The whole point of leaving the MWC was to avoid programs that are bloating the conference and not investing in their programs. So no