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https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/smu-mustangs/2023/08/10/introducing-the-big-18-why-smu-should-join-big-12-form-18-team-conference/ West — Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Colorado, San Diego State, Utah. Southwest — Baylor, Houston, Oklahoma State, SMU, TCU, Texas Tech. Midwest (no geographical name makes sense, but don’t worry about it) — Central Florida, Cincinnati, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, West Virginia.

The ACC and PAC-12 are in very different positions. The PAC-4's problem is they can't simply raid the MWC to rebuild. When the SEC & Big 10 raid the ACC ten years from now the ACC will be able to raid the American, Sun Belt and CUSA to rebuild.

Imagine being so out of touch, that your cultural references are from a 30-year old SNL skit.

There's one more option no one is talking about, the Big 12 can add Stanford and Cal. Just because they weren't interested a week ago, doesn't mean they feel the same way now. That leaves Washington State & Oregon State to the MWC.

The ACC didn't act on Wednesday, so there is real debate if they will expand with Stanford, Cal, and SMU. The AAC jumps in a says we'll take al 4, but so will MWC. So which media deal is better the AAC's or MWC and how does the travel cost change with a regional foot print vs a national one?

San Diego State's "New PAC-12" proposal consisting of remaining PAC-12, parts of Mountain West, and parts of the American appears to be dead. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/san-diego-state-fails-in-attempt-to-create-new-power-five-conference-with-pac-12-mountain-west-aac-members/ So it really becomes a question if the remaining PAC-2 (Standford & Cal) want to join the ACC to keep P5 designation or if they can join the Mountain West and guilt the rest of the NCAA into giving out a new P5 designation. SMU is probably still in play for either alignment, but I can't see it impacting any other schools in the American. The biggest wild card is Notre Dame. Does the contraction to P4 help the Irish? If so they can offer up an alliance to the ACC to incentive the remaining PAC-12 to make the cross country flights and make it easier for ND to get into the playoffs.

A couple of reasons attendance is down that no one is discussing. What time are games? The inconsistent kickoff times impact the game day experience. Who are we playing and do we have a reasonable chance to be competitive with them? Playing nobody teams like Texas Southern and HBU doesn't draw a crowd. Where can we park? There's a half empty lot next to the wing, but we're telling people to go park and haul their tailgating gear over the stupid bridge and back. Is there cash parking at the stadium? Is there any signage letting anyone know that? What is there do besides the game? The layout and lack of signage leaves the new visitor guessing. Is there a cover charge to get into this tailgate with the ropes around it? Can I go into the alumni building or is there some membership thing? Do I need tickets or a wristband for the kids zone. How much are walk up tickets? They run a lot of great promotions, but if you decide to wait and see what the weather is before you bring the family out to a game, you have to pay way to much for walk up tickets, especially for kids.

Yes, turning around this program is a big achievement. And yes you are.

Nothing noteworthy has happen. Fired coach, hired a lackey at AD, hired a nobody for a coach, lost a bowl. QB left. Y'all fanboys killed your program.

Texas State, what a low bar.

UNT is really in trouble if it's celebrating picking up prospects over D2 schools.

I agree things weren't that bad with football. I think the way you level up is coordinators, assistant coaches, and recruiters. But now we are going to turn all those things over for another guy to learn on the job in a harder conference. How did we have a real AD or coaching search in 9 days?

He doesn't have to just win, he as to win conference championships and bowl games. That's the unrealistic standard Neal has set.

The lack of real hiring search for both positions. If things we're really going so well we could make an inside hire for AD, then there was no reason for a coaching change. If things we're really so bad with football, then a real search needed to be conducted. Instead Neal got jealous of the head coach's pay and we are stuck with a suck up and a with a less experienced person from the same coaching tree.

I'll take people we shouldn't have hired for $100.