PAC is back

Matt from A700 · January 20

On 1/17/2025 at 8:36 PM, UNTLifer said:

Then why not stay put?

Because from top to bottom the Pac 12 offers opponents of interest. Kick out weaklings Rice and Tulsa, and then your interdivision opponents like SDSU, Boise, Gonzaga, Fresno, Wazzou, OSU all garner more attention than UAB, FAU, Charlotte...

greenminer · January 20

23 hours ago, MCMLXXX said:

I can't find this actual tweet. Great screen grab to capture it, but if McMurphy deleted it then I think he is reading the room and holding off until he sees more substance.

DallasGreen · January 29

On 9/12/2024 at 10:52 AM, DentonStang said:

Why would Cal and Stanford take something like an 80% revenue cut to go to a non-P4 league. That's bananas.

Why would SMU give up nine years of tv revenue to get into a conference that is barely P5 and has the two most noteworthy members ( Clemson & FSU) trying to leave? They have sure not upgraded their ooc schedule by playing Houston Christian and East Texas A& M

DentonStang · January 30

5 hours ago, DallasGreen said:

Why would SMU give up nine years of tv revenue to get into a conference that is barely P5 and has the two most noteworthy members ( Clemson & FSU) trying to leave? They have sure not upgraded their ooc schedule by playing Houston Christian and East Texas A& M

Sorry, I'll have to respond in detail in a few weeks. I'm a little busy counting our ancillary non-tier I media revenue that still far exceeds our total AAC revenue, and planning where to park for our multiple sellouts, and best fent-free nose candy source for our likely homecoming game vs Miami.

DentonStang · January 30

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/43623233/sources-espn-ok-option-televise-acc-sports-36

MeanGreen22 · January 31

On 1/19/2025 at 10:54 PM, greenminer said:

I can't find this actual tweet. Great screen grab to capture it, but if McMurphy deleted it then I think he is reading the room and holding off until he sees more substance.

Think Brett deleted this when realized the tweet was aggregated from a small podcast that was giving their "projection" based on rumors.

NT80 · February 1

Mailbag: The price to lure American schools into the Pac-12, impact of the ACC’s deal with ESPN, the MW’s grant of rights and more

Memphis, Tulane and USF must factor travel costs into any cross-country calculation

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/01/31/mailbag-the-price-to-lure-american-schools-into-the-pac-12-impact-of-the-accs-deal-with-espn-the-mws-grant-of-rights-and-more/

Matt from A700 · February 1

With the ACC news this week, looks like the American is safe for now. The PAC-12 is not getting a media deal any better than the American, and apparently multiple networks have already passed on the Pac.

Knowing this now, this my current preferred path for the AAC:

Add Texas State and James Madison as all-sport members. This gets your football league to 16 members. Separate into divisions. There's an easy path to stay at eight conference games or go to nine.
Add VCU and Dayton as non-football members. This gets your basketball league to 18 members. You can play one rival twice, and everyone else once.
Give programs 10-15 year deadlines to upgrade/build new facilities that are lacking - looking at UTSA, Rice, and FAU's high school gyms.

Jonnyeagle · February 1

2 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

With the ACC news this week, looks like the American is safe for now. T

The American kicks arse

wardly · February 7

So watching BIG WEST podcast today and and a guest speaker brought up the point that so far the PAC has repeated their previous mistake of being a west coast only conference, this time with schools with far less media value that those who left for the BIG 10 and ACC. Being locked into the western time zone severely limits both the PAC and MWC attractiveness to potential media partners. He stated that getting into Texas was a must for both conferences [UTEP doesn't count because of its isolation ] and that their targets should be UTSA ,Texas State , North Texas , and that it was a must for them to be in Northern Texas because of the huge market.The bottom line was that for either conference to survive they must get in other time zones adding football only schools if necessary as the MWC did with NIU. I am just the messenger but don't see how UTSA and UNT can come up with the $25 million AAC buyout.