BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Gonzaga feels like it has enough resources and cachet to sustain as a strong basketball school even when Mark Few steps down someday. But if St. Mary’s can’t pull off the same trick with Randy Bennett, that elevator shaft could go all the way to the bottom.

 

Honestly, this might be bigger than getting those AAC schools. I know it is a football world, but basketball isn't nothing, and if there was one school you could get in that regard. You just added an annual national title contender in a major sport. You have another recent Final Four team in the group with a few regular at-larges.

 

True, but with added resources of this could they stay appealing? They have three straight years of five seeds and a whole lot of NCAA berths. All under Bennett and surely some with the help of Gonzaga, but if they can do it in the WCC you would thing they could sustain with a higher conference profile.

 

Others are saying hold your horses on the Zags.

 

This is starting to carry the aroma of when the new rights deal for the post-LA schools era was perpetually two weeks out from being announced. What is in the water out there?

 

Very interesting day for sure.

 

If I were poaching out of the Sun Belt to the AAC, James Madison seems to be a no-brainer given their size, quality athletics and being in a populous state not too terribly far away from D.C. Maybe ODU brings some of the same attributes without the proximity to D.C.?

Georgia Southern would bring another populous state, and while Georgia State is right smack dab in Atlanta, they suck. At least Georgia Southern brings a quality football program to the table. I suppose a similar argument could be made for Texas State, but UTSA is already in the AAC.

The rest of the Sun Belt schools all have market-related issues. Appy State does seem to have its shit together, but they add nothing market-wise, especially with East Carolina in the AAC already.

 

Edit: For some reason couldn't get the Tweet to load, but Nicole Auerbach basically said more news to come on the MW as the remaining schools commit to the conference.

If something like this becomes true and everyone else commits, it becomes a tough day for the new PAC, because your best remaining bets to get to eight still lie in that conference if the AAC schools hold firm.

These things always seem to fall apart for the have nots. As someone else here said, they should have taken six MW schools from the start (still can't believe no UNLV, but obviously the Nevada thing held that up). They are going to end up with New Mexico State and UTEP at this rate and that isn't going to help the brand.

 

She said they're "working on it".

If I were UNLV, Utah State, New Mexico or anyone else in the MWC, I'd still want the Pac-12 invite.

 

Pac-2 fukcs itself with public lowball offer. Tulane, Memphis and USF stick together. I smell the rotten hand of ESPN in all this.

 

I agree, but who the heck knows what is going on? The Air Force news is probably because the Pac doesn't want them. They are deadweight in everything but football.

 

You’re UNLV. You have achieved nothing in your history without cheating. How can you turn up your nose and scoff at Nevada? Go to the brand of the PAC 12 and don’t get in your brother’s way.
Florida, one of the most acclaimed public colleges in the country — at least before Gov. DeathSentence tried to tear it down — is justified in looking out for its interests and organizing opposition to FSU. UVa should have marshaled resources to stop the ACC from taking the Hokies rather than timidly acceding to political threats. (The results in football prove my point.) But UNLV? Get over yourselves.