Now looking like NIU in football only, that is why. The PAC may be pushed into a corner with a much smaller footprint than the MWC. Also get to 12 teams and they can have conference championship game. If NIU comes look for Toledo and other from in the midwest to also consider again. Do not worry, I am sure NM State will be happy to join the PAC with the right incentive. As for pigs flying, I have seen it many times!
Or their facilities are too limiting. Their football stadium only holds 10,000. To end up with a conference title there would be a disaster.
UC Davis has nearly 45 thousand students, which has a lot of potential for improvement
You mean like at Hawaii? I hope they get their new stadium moving forward soon!
The SEC and Big 10 already nixed us wanting to add an FCS team doesn't sound like that is changing near term. Though I don't know why the MWC would listen to them.
Quite a change from that boyzee trucker school. AAU and extremely difficult to get in. Their GPA average admittance is something like 4.13.
is it too late for UNLV to join the PAC-2 because I have a feeling Reno will instead.
Good point.
That’s why I think FB must be in the works. As it is the MWC which moving forward is a really bad BB conference but adding UCD didn’t really hurt it ( or help it)in BB they are basically on par with UNLV BB and the rest of the shit BB schools in the shit conference.
True though UNLV, UNM and a few have some upside. We are at a trough, UCD has no chance to get higher in the near term.
I have to believe or maybe I want to believe that there is a long term strategy here. I have to think that football is planned in the future. Davis will need some time to get ready for the jump to FBS. This needs to happen. For media value it wouldn't be bad. They are 15 miles outside of Sacramento. Getting a jump into an FBS conference ahead of Sacrament State could help capture that Sacrament media market. Even longer term when Stanford and CAL decide they've had enough of the travel for their student athletes they may find it more palatable to align with the MW rather than all those State schools in the PAC. A little wishful thinking on my part.
Haha
When the super conference breaks off, everything goes out the window anyways. The 2nd tier which we will be in, will all be re-shuffled. There will be power teams falling down into 2nd tier looking for new homes and perhaps a few G teams moving up opening spaces.
You can add collusion to anti-trust. At some point I have a feeling the federal courts are going to get involved and the pockets are not deep enough for the SEC and Big 10 to win that battle.To the SEC and Big 10 if I’m Gloria.
Not a lawyer.
It will more than likely be settled out of court imo. Nothing to see here. They are just pissed after losing Gonzaga which was their money bag imo.
Agree with InZone. Not so much with Loco. The University endowment equals around, doing monkey math here, zero when it comes to Athletics? Same with their AAU status. And student population? So what? Their FB stadium will hold 1/4 of the students? Just not seeing any rationale for this move. Or the potential SIU FB-only move. And add GCU to this list. What is the MW trying to do - create a Big East West BB conference?
I'm afraid the ship has sailed on any merger talk. The MW is just in survival mode. I don't care anymore what the MW does as my only concern is UNLV. **** everybody else.
My thought was potential upside. Stadium isn't big, so that might have to get sorted out. Looking at ESPN box scores, attendance pre playoffs 10-15k announced. Growth opportunity for the school is built in.
The WCC was in the middle of trying to steal Grand Canyon from the WAC, and they want to sue because they have changed their mind? Sounds more like smoke and mirrors.
Yep. The Pac totally f-ed up by not taking UNLV, particularly when we took USU instead. Or however the metrics worked out. And we still don't have an 8th FB-playing member, with nothing but crickets coming from the Pac offices. On my board I still crow about the reverse merger (as an I told you so) and offering Sac St (f- what the SEC and B1G say about FCS schools). Replies? More crickets. Not even any degrading insults. They know I was right. Teresa is an idiot, it was/is all about keeping her job at the leagues exense. Looks like Gloria recently visited the same clinic as Teresa for her lobotomy.
I foresee a reverse merger type of thing in the next few years. There are also going to be quite a few P teams looking for new homes once Alabama gets done with their super conference. Getting left out of the playoffs set things into hyperdrive.
They will ruin college football with that super conference. A conference with 40 teams great recipe for half the country not giving a crap or watching.
That's what they want. The mere thought of Boise or SMU making it in over them really ruffled their man feathers.
I think it’s what they want. It’s about the money, bottom line, the less mouths to feed, the better for them. Any threat of a little guy pisses them off.
I don't think it will happen that way. Imagine a joint trillion dollar antitrust lawsuit by the following states: Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, New York, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Colorado, North Carolina, Kansas, Virginia, West Virginia, etc. College football has economic impact to states.
Everything is corrupt. They can throw a few million at the judges. Even that’s not frowned upon anymore.
UC-Davis is a hella fine school. I applied to law school there, and I imagine my application just burst into flames the second it entered their admissions office.
Ultimately the federal courts will get involved. They are now professional teams, which means they can be held financially and legally liable.
