OT: SDSU Submits letter to "resign" from MWC
According to Pete Thamel, SDSU, without an invitation to the PAC-12, has submitted a letter resigning from the conference.
SDSU apparently needed to do so before July 1 in order to save money on some conference fees or rights or something, as the conference year ends June 30th.
This combined with the likelihood that Colorado is moving back to the Big 12 (there is a "special" BOD meeting scheduled for Monday 6/19) would suggest that SDSU is expecting an invite and needed to make a move before July 1 in order to be available.
Ever since USC and UCLA announced they were going to the B1G, I’ve said the PAC-12’s best hope was to immediately go after the Mountain West and regain some stability. Similar to how the Big 12 went out and got BYU, Houston, UCF and Cincy to replace Texas and OU.
You won’t find two schools to replace them, but you can go and get 4 schools and recreate that stability in the aggregate. Say for example: SDSU, Boise State, Nevada, and New Mexico or Colorado State.
Yeah, I've heard this argument as well and it makes a ton of sense. A football/basketball conference with Boise, SDSU, Fresno St., and Colorado St., for example, would be a pretty strong league. Or swap in Air Force for CSU and now you've got some national brands as well as teams in solid recruiting areas.
Colorado going back to the Big 12 is, honestly, a net positive for the Pac 12 in my eyes. I'd feel similar if Nebraska left and went back to the Big 12 and the Big 10 picked up, I don't know, ND. There are schools that just don't make sense culturally or geographically in these conferences and if they don't bring you a huge media market or access to a rich recruiting hotbed I don't see why you keep them around.
I just don’t think standing idle while arguably your two largest profile members leave is a wise strategy. If the PAC-12 goes to hell anyway, most of the schools are going to end up in the MWC anyway. Makes sense to try and get the top MWC schools first and see if you can’t convince the rest of the members to see things through instead of bolting for the Big12.
It just seems to me like the options are either to expand themselves or they split between the Big12 and MWC anyway.
Folks learned from UCLA/USC's June 30th (literally the last day of the NCAA year, so it gave nobody a chance to react at all) move last year.
San Diego State doesn't want to make the jump then get caught holding the ball if a bunch of Pac-12 teams leave between today and June 30.
So they're trying to get the MWC to extend their June 30 deadline to July. But the MWC doesn't want to play ball, and I don't blame them.
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