Just announced UNLV staying in MWC, Utah State to PAC 7. I am assuming Nevada/ Reno and SJSU staying in MWC which gives each conference 7 football programs. Looks like both may need to dip into 1AA programs. i doubt the PAC 7 would take UTEP or NMSU but the MWC might take one or both .
Only Memphis is worthy of a conference upgrade IMO (maybe South Florida).
Tulane has little historical success, other than the last 2 FB seasons.
The UTSA Frank Harris's were good for the 5 years he was there.
No, the pitch was the POTENTIAL for slightly more TV money based on what "media experts" claimed the new PAC-X would be worth. The PAC broke up because "media experts" claimed the old PAC-12-2 could get more media money than the Big XII and it turned out to be significantly less. The Apple/Prime deal for the old PAC-12-2 was around $20 million but included lots of bonuses for "increased subscribers for Apple and Prime." The current experts claimed $15 million for a new State Six plus a mystery two. I never thought that group was really worth 3/4 of value of the PAC-12-2. Oregon, Washington, the 4 corner schools, Cal, and Stanford are worth a lot more in media than anything the PAC-X can cobble together! I wish I could find the analysis again, but I was reading last spring about Boise being on a slow but steady five year drop in ratings. Is San Diego State strong enough to be the media draw to out earn every other G5 conference? If they were, why wasn't the the MWC able to take advantage of that!
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