Green Otaku

Concert have the highest quality equipment since that's the main feature of the show, they can't afford to have bad audio. They also have more control with placement, putting the speaker line in front of the microphones so they aren't looping back into the mics to create feedback. It could just be the audio equipment at DATCU isn't the highest quality. Maybe the wireless signal isn't strong enough with so many people in the stadium, it could be the mic placement on the ref being poor, it could be the person running the board isn't mitigating the frequencies to prevent feedback, or it could be that the system isn't tuned properly for the environment. It's hard to know without knowing what they use, how it's set up, and how it's run.

If true we need to demand better from the AD. There's no reason for such poor scheduling.

Hoping to be surprised, but ready to be underwhelmed by who they can get.

Man I hope he gives the defense a big boost.

According to that post we are missing about 5 more games?

Doubt that happens as well too, there seems to be a lot of bad blood now. Also whomever stays in the MWC has incentive to do so to collect some big checks from departing schools.

I don't think Gonzaga does much for them, over half of the BE is equal to Gonzaga IMO. Plus I'd imagine their fanbase is heavily on the east coast, and going west would be a huge deal for them.

This whole saga has been bizarre, it's why you don't air your dirty laundry in front of the whole country. Now the PAC looks incompetence, greedy, arrogant, stupid, and any other adjective. With them suing the MWC about a deal they signed not even a year ago they are losing any goodwill people had for their teams. Their entire organization looks awful top to bottom, and should frankly be a warning to anyone wanting to be part of that conference.

I think you quoted the wrong person or read my message wrong. I was the one asking why this thread even exists. 😅

I don't see any chance of Uconn leaving the BE. FB only I can see, but that doesn't really raise the profile of the PAC.

It's all the same topic. Whichever way the narrative goes it's still about the same thing.

Does every new headline really need a new thread? Why can't everything just be in 1 catch-all thread?

Sure, but they didn't try to dissolve the WAC while doing so. I'm assuming the also went by the bylaws and left with whatever penalties/revenue forfeiture they had to do.

I'm not a lawyer, but something like that seems ripe for a lawsuit. Colluding behind the other team's backs and doing real monetary harm to those left out sounds like something you could see being a court case. All you would need is access to their emails and messages by lawyers and you would be able to prove they did this intentionally.

This is true, otherwise the 8 schools that left the Pac12 (10 at the time) would have dissolved the conference and distributed the assets evenly. Once you announce you are leaving you don't get a vote.

I mean that was the whole point of this thing, to try and keep that money rolling in with a decent media deal, CFP participation, and teams that would get basketball credits, it just failed.

CFP money, massive Rose Bowl agreement that runs until 2026 IIRC? Years of muti-bid NCAA credits that accrue interest, the remaining assets of a once P5 conference. They have some money, but they won't be refilling that money at the same level they used to.

I'd bet they had clauses and high penalties in their scheduling agreement if they tried to do that. Even so, from a purely legal perspective I wonder if they get sued into the ground on something like "collusion" or something else since they intentionally colluded to avoid paying exit fees and damaged the remaining schools?

ESPN would have to agree to pay for them. I don't think the AAC has a pro-rata clause to add more members for an additional share, we'd have to split our conference distribution and lower each member's payout. I don't see teams agreeing to that. That also segues into new problems with the PAC now, with the AAC teams out what kind of media deal can they get? Does it even make sense for the 4 MWC schools to leave now? The PAC has no media deal secured, not enough members, and time is slowly running out.

It was the last attempt from WOSU to keep some semblance of separation and power, they didn't want to accept their G5 fate.

The thing that starts to get interesting here is what does the PAC 6 do? Reports are that AFA and others might stay in the MWC and sign a GOR to keep themselves locked in? You would think they would offer Utah St. and UNLV, but what do they do if they don't go? NMSU? UTEP? Tx.St? Could the MWC force a reverse merger?

Nothing on our side has been reported. I'd guess that Pernetti talked to each schools, as well as ESPN to see what incentives could be done to keep the interested schools. If more money comes down the pipeline I could almost guarantee it was ESPN not wanting to lose those properties. I could see some kind of incentive bonus depending on where teams finish, and Pernetti talked about private equity.

I was saying from the beginning the money to move west was a big hurdle. Everything came down to if there was enough money to make the move worth it, for the legacy members that was $12-15M and $12M was probably the break even because of the additional travel. Pac12 was offered $24M before it broke apart? That was with Washington, Oregon, AZ, Utah, etc. so what kind of deal do you think they'd get with WOSU and 4 MWC teams?

UAB announced Sept. 10th: https://www.al.com/uab/2024/09/uab-mens-basketball-team-unveils-full-2024-25-nonconference-slate.html ECU announced Aug. 16th: https://247sports.com/college/east-carolina/article/ecu-basketball-non-conference-2024-25-schedule-released-234806993/ Memphis announced Aug. 5th: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/college/memphis-tigers/2024/08/05/penny-hardaway-memphis-basketball-2024-25-schedule/74651136007/ Rice announced Aug. 23rd: https://riceowls.com/news/2024/8/23/mens-basketball-mens-hoops-announces-2024-25-non-conference-schedule Temple announced Sept. 12th: https://247sports.com/college/temple/article/temple-announces-mbb-and-wbb-non-conference-schedules-236129664/ The other teams I could not find when they released their schedules, but everyone seems to be done except us and Tulsa. So I ask like I always do, why does it take us so long to schedule games?

They've got the biggest puzzle piece to success. A well run AD that puts the right pieces in place.