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Memphis, Tulane, USF, UTSA commit to AAC

Some of the highest-profile targets of the Pac-12's expansion have rebuffed its interest, as Memphis, Tulane, USF and UTSA all publicly committed to stay in the American Athletic Conference on Monday.
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Sounds like Air Force is staying in the Mountain West, too.
 
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So if i got this right;

The MWC before this shitshow had 11 teams, and was generally healthy

Pac-2 comes in and f***s with it by luring 4 away in Boise, SDSU, CSU, and Fresno, dropping them down to 7.

Not an ideal scenario, but with UNLV and Air Force reaffirming their position, the conference could just add somebody to keep the number at 8 and avoid dissolution

Utah State ruins this, does a heel turn and blindsides everybody after the PAC whiffed on all the AAC schools it tried to lure in like Memphis/Tulane

with Utah State leaving, the conference on its deathbed with UNLV ultimately holding the fate of it in their hands depending on what they decide to do?

and all this happened in like the span of 24 hours. Shit is whack.
 
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You can see why they cut off the scheduling alliance after just one week.

However, how does the Pac-x become a higher conference by taking all the MWC when they could've just joined them, simply on the belief it can get a better TV deal. They needed AAC teams to do that, but those schools changing their geography isn't worth the risk.

Now they're just getting to numbers, we'll see of NMSU and UTEP move, or if both conferences have to invite FCS schools.
 
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Blitzkrug said:
with Utah State leaving, the conference on its deathbed with UNLV ultimately holding the fate of it in their hands depending on what they decide to do?
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Deathbed is a bit extreme. The Mountain West only dies if there's a reverse-merger. There's multiple FCS programs in its footprint that are of a similar quality as the FBS ones they struck out going after. There'd be an immense amount of pride swallowing for it to happen, but if it's death or paying a few million of those exit fees to bring the Montana programs up that shouldn't be a difficult decision.

Hell, the timing has never been better for Idaho to finally get that Mountain West invite they wanted so badly before being forced to drop back down. It won't happen, but Idaho athletics is in a far better place now than it's been in in decades (including beating a Mountain West team this season). Point is that there are options, even if they aren't in the FBS today.

A not small part of me would get a giant kick out of the Mountain West effectively ending up replacing what the old WAC was.
 
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Big McLargehuge said:
Deathbed is a bit extreme. The Mountain West only dies if there's a reverse-merger. There's multiple FCS programs in its footprint that are of a similar quality as the FBS ones they struck out going after. There'd be an immense amount of pride swallowing for it to happen, but if it's death or paying a few million of those exit fees to bring the Montana programs up that shouldn't be a difficult decision.

Hell, the timing has never been better for Idaho to finally get that Mountain West invite they wanted so badly before being forced to drop back down. It won't happen, but Idaho athletics is in a far better place now than it's been in in decades (including beating a Mountain West team this season). Point is that there are options, even if they aren't in the FBS today.

A not small part of me would get a giant kick out of the Mountain West effectively ending up replacing what the old WAC was.
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Which is why i expect a merger after both sides are done throwing lawsuits at each other.
 
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End of Line said:
This is a bad situation on all fronts
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Especially for a school with two conferences fighting over it. Sluka is a senior, he has one chance to make his money, unless he becomes an NFL mainstay. Or maybe more than one.

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https://x.com/i/web/status/1838802285423718419

Pardon my ignorance, but would that not be considered tampering & should that school not face sanctions? What happened to the game I love? :help:
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Probably need a better expert on how NIL functions. The portal isn’t supposed to open until December 9. But the NIL group may not necessarily be exclusively be affiliated with the school. The new landscape of NIL remains nebulous, it’s why you’re seeing coaches retire instead because they don’t feel like dealing with it.

If you’re a bigger school, does that matter? It may be a shot across the bow to the NCAA that the conferences don’t need them and want to play by their own rules.

Unholy Diver said:
It seems like these guys might not actually be doing it for the love of the game, and money might be a factor, maybe.
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He played for Holy Cross, he had to like the game at least a little bit.
 
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He played for Holy Cross, he had to like the game at least a little bit.
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I was more saying college athletes in general, and the antiquated thought of these guys as "amateurs", and while I don't like the idea of players swapping teams as much as they do, I get it, most of these guys and ladies will not be playing at the pro level, and this might be their only chance to cash in, so get it while you can.


I have to say that going from a small Jesuit college in New England to UNLV is quite the change, maybe he saw some things in Vegas that made him repent
 
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GKJ said:
Especially for a school with two conferences fighting over it. Sluka is a senior, he has one chance to make his money, unless he becomes an NFL mainstay. Or maybe more than one.
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From what read he went into the HC’s office and said he needed $300k and was rebuffed, cleaned out his locker and left. There’s also some reporting that an agent got into his ear after the Kansas game.
 
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If any of that were true, UNLV would have said so already.

It seems UNLV lied to the kid and now they are paying the price for it, good for the kid.

He's never playing in the NFL and this is the last year he can get paid to play football and if UNLV lied to him, I wouldn't have waited 3 weeks to leave
 
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Shit, the coach just got a raise to $1.75 million for next year. If they owed the QB $100,000, he's got that 17 times over. The coach could have been a hero to find a way to keep him and make it known that he sacrificed for the good of the team. Now it looks like he will lie about money to get players to UNLV.

With everyone leaving for the Pac10, UNLV looks like your broke cousin looking for dimes in the couch. They ain't getting an invite now. REALLY bad look over $100,000
 
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