If UNLV leaves for the PAC, and AF leaves for the AAC, I don't expect the MWC to just sit on their hands for two years. Expansion is a top priority for survival.
Hawaii, SJSU, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico will need to add 3 schools quickly to meet the NCAA 8-team requirement and ensure they still have a conference to collect the PAC penalty fees after the lawsuits are settled.
It's widely discussed that UTEP and New Mexico State are next in line for MWC invites. The MWC would just need one more school after that. Flush with cash, MWC could easily put up the $5M FCS-to-FBS entrance fee to help Idaho or North Dakota State jump to FBS and become their 8th member.
I live in Florida and one of the penalties I pay for that is I have to catch the football broadcast on Varsity network.
The past game I was subjected to hearing Wyoming broadcast team and to pit it bluntly, it was painful.
We are extremely fortunate to have the UNT broadcasters we have.
I'm not talking about being dissolved today. That's not going to happen. I'm talking about members agreeing to dissolve the conference once they've been paid in 2026. At that point there would be no exit fee, because it would literally just be SJSU left.
I think, at worst, there's a cash settlement with SJSU and/or whoever else may be left out.
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