Realignment Carousel Spins Up again (USC and UCLA to Big 10)

[Stickboy46]

If the AAC loses Memphis, Tulane, USF, and UTSA I worry it won't be in a position to even backfill from the MWC. I wouldn't hate going to the MWC if it meant bringing schools like Tulsa, UNT, and UAB with us.

If we lose 4 and they lose 4, we are still in the position of power over them IMO. They would also be under the required number of schools to be a conference. Air Force is almost a certainty to jump at that point. Its a domino effect. There is almost zero chance in that situation that AAC schools go to the MWC, but a very high chance of the other way around.

[Stickboy46]

25 million in exit fees to move to a conference that is posting a best case scenario of 2-5 million more a year and will add 2 million plus in travel.

All to be in a glorified MWC. I struggle where any of this makes sense. It made more sense when the Pac still was considered a P conference. They have lost all of the official benefits of that.

[calfan]

This writer shares my thoughts:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/pac-12-adding-mountain-west-schools-sets-new-standard-of-pointlessness-in-college-sports/ar-AA1qsJvC?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[C0|dB|00ded]

If we remain in this shell of a conference, we need to restart football tomorrow. Hell, the AAC would need us to restart football. They need product. And we need to redefine ourselves as a football school or go back to the MVC and play Evansville.

[Aargh]

If we remain in this shell of a conference, we need to restart football tomorrow. Hell, the AAC would need us to restart football. They need product. And we need to redefine ourselves as a football school or go back to the MVC and play Evansville.

Starting football would be a great use of that surplus $100 million sitting in athletic department coffers. All we have to do is put a tax an a ballot to have the city build a 60,000 seat stadium. There's no doubt that would pass in a landslide. The excitement of that new team starting up in a new stadium in Wichita wouldn't have any trouble attracting 60,000 rabid football fans away from supporting KU or K-State, or even OU.

Those first couple of years when we'd likely be playing teams like McNeese State, Houston Christian, Northwestern State, Incarnate Word, and others in the Southland Conference would ensure some lopsided wins and maintain the fan level and support at a fever pitch.

Can't miss!

[C0|dB|00ded]

Starting football would be a great use of that surplus $100 million sitting in athletic department coffers. All we have to do is put a tax an a ballot to have the city build a 60,000 seat stadium. There's no doubt that would pass in a landslide. The excitement of that new team starting up in a new stadium in Wichita wouldn't have any trouble attracting 60,000 rabid football fans away from supporting KU or K-State, or even OU.

Those first couple of years when we'd likely be playing teams like McNeese State, Houston Christian, Northwestern State, Incarnate Word, and others in the Southland Conference would ensure some lopsided wins and maintain the fan level and support at a fever pitch.

Can't miss!

Who cares about stadiums. Just mow down a 100 yard patch next to K96 and people can bring blankets and sit on the highway berms. Wichitans will think they're at a CU game in Boulder.

We're gonna be in the equivalent of the MVC (or worse) in about a year anyways.

[TrackSuitAndTie]

[TrackSuitAndTie]

[Stickboy46]

Basically this version of the PAC will take just about anyone

[WuShock16]

Basically this version of the PAC will take just about anyone

If the PAC 2 is going to take a large chunk of the MWC membership, couldn’t Oregon St and Washington St have just joined the MWC and pocketed the leftover PAC money?

[Shockm]

If the PAC 2 is going to take a large chunk of the MWC membership, couldn’t Oregon St and Washington St have just joined the MWC and pocketed the leftover PAC money?

Could be wrong, but I think that the PAC 12 brand goes with the money. If the PAC dissolves, the two schools, have no rights to the money.

[WuShock16]

Could be wrong, but I think that the PAC 12 brand goes with the money. If the PAC dissolves, the two schools, have no rights to the money.

Ah. That makes sense. So in a universe where the PAC dissolves, what happens to that 9-digit war chest?

[TrackSuitAndTie]

Ah. That makes sense. So in a universe where the PAC dissolves, what happens to that 9-digit war chest?

If it had happened when all the other schools left I believe it would have been equally distributed among the 12 members.

[Shockm]

Ah. That makes sense. So in a universe where the PAC dissolves, what happens to that 9-digit war chest?

I’ll take a stab at answering that question.

Courts, lawyers, schools, television, NCAA, etc. and then who wins?

[Kung Wu]

Ah. That makes sense. So in a universe where the PAC dissolves, what happens to that 9-digit war chest?

I think it's the greatest Mexican Standoff in athletics history. Oregon State should convince Washington State to join them in leaving for the XYZ conference. Then right after Washington State signs the contract, Oregon State should say an 11th hour board vote is preventing them from leaving, thus they get the full war chest. And vice versa. Publicly they are all about leaving together, but behind closed doors they secretly want the other guy to go.

Now what they should have done is signed a new conference policy that any schools on probation don't get very much media moolah until the current media contract runs out. Then they should have recruited a bunch of DIII and NAIA schools to join their conference to get them to the magic 8 schools that lets them actually keep the conference in tact. Would be easy to find 6 regional DIII schools that want the prestige of being in the PAC. Then siphon those payments into an endowment while grinding the PAC down to oblivion. lol