BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

BTE and I will send you a carton of eggs.

 

Time is a flat circle.

 

If Stanford and Cal ever make it official, OSU and Wazzu can finally finalize the merger with the MWC, which is their only option at this point. And I don't think the MountPac Conference or the PacMount Conference it will be all that bad. Fellow western land-grant schools, easy travel, compact footprint, especially of Hawaii gets the heave-ho as an affiliate FB member.

And OSU and WSU can supplement their incomes with the Pac-12's NCAA basketball units over the next six years. So here's to the conference earning 19-20 units this year, like in 2021, and Arizona beating UCLA in this year's championship game., generating $7 million a year in revenue they'll never see.

The Pac-12 also has a turnkey-ready TV network that could easily be rebranded in to the PacMount of the MountPac Network. And who knows, maybe Apple agrees to a smaller streaming contract that it was going to offer the Pac-12, a great way to check and see if people will buy, with a much-smaller upfront investment. Yeah, I'm a hopeless optimist, but what's the point of being anything else?

I also really believe in 5-6 years, after paying tens of millions in needless travel costs, after being sued for Title IX violations by Olympic sport athletes who don't get charters across the football, after years of pushback by travel-weary Olympic sports athletes and parents who can no longer see their children play and the myriad other logistical problems that are going to happen, the ADs and presidents of the departing 10 Pac-12 schools are going to say, "WTF were we thinking?" Never when the cameras or tape recorders are on, though, they'll toe the party line and lie through their teeth.

BTW, SMU is a great add for the ACC, 10 million TV sets that have never, ever been tuned in to an SMU football game.

 

It won’t be the PacMount or the MountPac or whatever. Name is already taken.

https://mpsports.org/

 

A Mountain West with Wazzu and Oregon State instantly becomes the fifth-best conference and a decent one at that. They would consistently be in the CFP and have been a damn good basketball conference as is.

Not only that, but it geographically covers a part of the country that might keep the big dogs from being subject to pesky congressional action of some sort from a state that is left out of the picture.

If you're Wazzu/Oregon State, your path to the playoff, and bids in other sports too, is a lot easier in this arrangement than some shotgun marriage with a bloated ACC/Big 12.

 

All well and good until the SEC and Big 10 decide there shouldn’t be six auto bids, or maybe any at all.

 

Yep. Closed-circuit TV is nothing new. (And that would have been a pisser since the race only ran a few laps before it rained, forcing postponement to the next day. Parnelli's turbine and A.J.'s third win.)

 

Yeah, I know about them. The new/same home for UW/UO/USC/UCLA Olympic sports not sponsored by the Big Ten.

PacMount is different enough. Not sure what OSU and Wazzu have to do to keep getting the NCAA hoops payouts but I'm sure their lawyers are fired up and ready.

 

Why not just rebrand as the PAC, no number? Simple, ties to the past, some residual brand recognition.

 

The Mountain West tried a cable network and shut it down because it never made money. The Pac 12 Network never made any serious money despite having the LA and Bay area markets. I don't think a MWC Network would be commercially viable given the lack of success of prior networks.

I do think Oregon State and Washington State would be great adds to the current MWC. OSU and WSU would lose about 25 million a year in television revenue. But the cost of doing business in the MWC is also much cheaper. Schools like Colorado have been spending about 95 million dollars a year. OSU and WSU struggle to keep up financially. MWC schools spend about 50 million dollars a year. OSU and WSU would need to brutally cut salaries and staff but even with less television money they could compete in the MWC.

 

The Pac-12 Network never made money because Scott tried to run it independently and couldn't partner with ESPN, like the SEC Network did. Plus he way overspent on a studio site in downtown SF, and wouldn't accommodate Direct TV with a special rate.

There has been talk of adding four AAC schools for 24-25, then 5-6 MWC schools in 25-26 after their TV contract ends and they can leave for a reduced or not charge. Makes no sense. Any AAC additions would make the conference as far-flung as the ones everyone says make no geographic sense. Go all-in with the MWC, be the # 5 conference, gets some expanded playoffs berths and beat somebody.

 

The MW has gone heavily into digital the last few years, especially in Olympic sports.