BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Until there is a firm offer to pay the Pac at least two to three million more than the AAC payout, I'm not gonna sweat it too much.

 

Tulane is a relatively small private school that doesn't need football institutionally but has to play the game in multiple senses of the phrase because of where it is located.

 

And Cal needs every penny it can get.

 

Tell me about it. Of the 66 football games played between Stanford and San Jose State, only four have been in San Jose. The renewal of the Bill Walsh Legacy Game this year is a four-year contract, two in San Jose, two on the Farm. Cal hasn't been much better. I suspect part of the reason San Jose wasn't invited to the Pac 6 was to keep the market open for a possible return of Stanford and Cal.

 

Why does Tulane need to play football based upon location? I have always thought of Emory as a peer school and they seem to be doing well despite not playing Division One sports.

 

Can't answer that as NOLA is 50th TV market. But Tulane is desperate to get out of the AAC.

 

I live in Texas, and UTSA isn't on the radar of anyone I know. Texas and Texas A&M dominate the state football-wise (duh!), and everyone else trails far behind. And I say this as an employee of another D1 university in the state.

 

That's been true ever since the SWC. There was UT and aTm, and the rest were afterthoughts - and that was a conference where every team except Arkansas was in Texas.

That said, UTSA has grown a fanbase very quickly. The dome in San Antonio hit 30k or so in attendance pretty consistently. That's good for an AAC school.

 

If there's a contract that pays $12-15m, it's just a matter of when the jump happens and how many it includes. Until there's an actual media contract on the table, however, it's just rumor and hot air, the 6Pac notwithstanding.

 

A conference being stable is now “a problem.” This sport is too dumb to live.

 

Memphis has had itchy feet and a bad case of "The Grass is Greener" for a long time.