I think the reason is quite obvious. They didn't want the bottom of the conference and SDSU and BSU hate UNLV.
PAC….terrible leadership!
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I was thinking they just didn't want to travel to Laramie, Albuquerque & Ft Collins in the dead of winter.
If that were the case they wouldn't have added Colorado State and Boise either. Not really tropical regions in the winter.
BTW, CSU is is Ft. Collins and AF is in Colorado Springs, but I understood what you meant.
This. Included in it is the belief that the Pac 12 brand is still a Power conference brand and therefore superior to the MWC brand.
I think Albuquerque is the only one you could actually fly into but who wants to go there any time of the year. I’m probably wrong again. 🤷♂️
Had they included another 2 schools to create a viable conference, I would have agreed. Leaving it 2 straight stupidity in my opinion.A quote this afternoon on my Board, along with my predictable reply........
A "brilliant performance"? Ok buddy, let's go with that. The rest of the country thinks we have totally f-ed up by not doing the merger. But don't mind them. Teresa gets to keep her job, which is the only thing that matters.
We are truly a flagship university of this conference.
Had this new playoff structure been in effect last year, C-USA's flagship Liberty would have been given the coveted #12 spot. Something we should all ponder. The AAC and the MWC will still have a say whether or not the POS7 get that spot. OOC are the only 3 letters that should matter to UNLV now.
One thing that will be brought up in the lawsuit for the scheduling agreement fee is "If your intent was to not pay the fee as you claim it was unfair, why did you stop at just 4 schools originally when you then offered 3 additional programs in the conference spots"... that right there should kill the lawsuit all together.A quote this afternoon on my Board, along with my predictable reply........
A "brilliant performance"? Ok buddy, let's go with that. The rest of the country thinks we have totally f-ed up by not doing the merger. But don't mind them. Teresa gets to keep her job, which is the only thing that matters.
The answer is your commissioner thought everyone would jump at the opportunity to join the Pac 2 and no one would push back. that failed miserably
I don't get it either. Woohoo they have the PAC logo. Except they are in the same G conference group as we still are.
I mean I get wanting to create a conference that results in better media deal and revenue. I kinda understand the idea of having the best G6 conference where one loss doesn't eliminate you from CFP discussion. What I don't get is the P5 delusion in football. Those four are not going to give up a guaranteed spot in the CFP that eliminates an at large bid...
I dont think think people understand fully how the CFP G5 spot will work because it hasnt been that way before... I see alot of posts about us being eliminated from contention last night after a close loss to Syracuse which now probably finds itself in the top 25. If we can still win the MWC, our schedule was good enough to rank us higher in the playoff rankings than the other G5 programs. We still have a top 10 SOS. Boise is in the same boat. They need to go through us to get to the CFP as well. In their new conference, they'll have the same issue, but either way, I don't think 1 loss or 2 losses should be viewed as a season ender because that's not how the CFP rankings work.
Season tickets have sunk to new lows. This article pretty much shows their announced attendance numbers versus bodies walking through the turnstile. It looks like they add about 8000 to their announced attendance versus the actual. Even doing that they are just over 50% of filling the stadium. San Diego fans are not stupid. They know garbage when they see it and they prefer not to see it.
Correct.
That's my point about strength of schedule and why conference strength matters. You have margin for error in a better conference. CUSA teams don't have that. MAC teams don't have that.
Nothing changed for UNLV last night. Sucks, but MWC title still in play, CFP still in play.
San Diego fans are also not overly passionate in general. Padres get good support but Chargers were meh at best.
Goal is to win conference championship. Last time I checked, we are still on track.
I think what's more obvious is last year wasn't just a fluke vs semi weak schedule. We just went 4-1 in first 5 vs 3 P4 schools, lost 1 that could be competing in ACC title game, and dominated the next best team in the conference... we have an incredibly tough front end schedule and should be at worse 6-2 entering the back end...
Could realistically be 5-3 entering the last 4. Have to split one between ore st and Boise to get to 6-2.
First thing first is taking care of a bad USU team.
I looked at this schedule and had a hard time just chalking up a lot of 'obvious' wins. Front half like you said loaded.
CFP playoff was/is obviously still in play. But it would likely require beating Boise State 2x.
Still three tough games left on the schedule. OSU, SJSU and Boise. SJSU has given Rebs a lot of trouble. Last year it was a one score game but SJSU controlled majority of it.
Everything still in play and every game means more. One game at a time.
I don't think anybody here predicted 12-0 so our lottery tickets are still alive.
San Diego State fans, and the rest of fandom was all equally in shock when UNLV wasnt included in the initial invite. Everyone was stunned. I think we have a healthy level of respect as an upper-tier G5 school.
But when the reason was made public - UNLV fans, what few there are, dont watch television apparently - and UNLV and Air Force locked arms to get paid, everyone has moved on.
But when the reason was made public - UNLV fans, what few there are, dont watch television apparently - and UNLV and Air Force locked arms to get paid, everyone has moved on.
