G6 leagues not reforming and trading teams to become more regional is a missed opportunity. If they are going to be permanently shut out at least give them some local teams they can learn to hate.
Sun Belt leaning into this model is smart IMO. Regionalism is a big part of what made college football great, and that has been greatly diminished if not almost destroyed.
The MWC invited two foxes into the henhouse and are now mad that they are eating the chickens. What did they think was going to happen?
I like the Snow-belt idea Wyoming Idaho North Dakota North Dakota State South Dakota South Dakota State Montana Montana State And if Oregon State and Washington State weren’t doing whatever they are doing, also include: Oregon State Washington State Eastern Washington Boise State Would be the best non-P2/M2 conference, nice and regional, and fun #snowafterdark
and the ncaa putting a $5m fee on them moving up to D1 is...of course...bad for the sport. you want the entire geographic footprint invested. Having states completely absent when those states have schools with D1 resources is dumb.
New PAC leadership but yet the same incompetence remains. Doing piecemeal additions was so dumb and seemingly completely discounting the idea of the MWC or American fighting for their own survival. They massively overplayed their hand. The fact the MWC conference has fought to ensure survival on the basis of payouts from the PAC on the first defections is comical.
Pac 2 Twitter had a pretty funny space last night where they pieced together the plan on how getting Gonzaga will get them UConn (in all sports) and will net them $15-20M a year from TNT where Kenny, Chuck, Ernie and Shaq will do Inside The Pac twice a week once they lose the NBA.
I can see why they would want the Pac-12 or AAC but the remains of the Mountain West doesn't seem like an upgrade from the Sun Belt.
Wrong, they scheduled the Clemson AD’s weekly zoom over the time of this meeting so both sankey & Petitti could keep them up to speed
Doesn’t Hawaii have their own TV deal? I’m sure it doesn’t pay much, though. Yeah, they have a deal with Spectrum. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020...-hawaii-extends-tv-rights-deal-with-spectrum/
I really wonder if Hawaii will still be playing football five years from now. Without a real replacement for Aloha Stadium, they’re up a creek. Oregon was supposed to play there in week 0, and when Dillon Gabriel transferred people were kind of looking forward to it. Oregon PR’d their way out of the game saying it was because of moving the Oregon State game to September, but really it was because it wasn’t worth it financially in their 13,000 seat “stadium.”
Yeah, that split is for road conference football games only. They get revenue from Spectrum for home football games and the Big West for everything else
I wonder how much they make off the Spectrum deal? It costs like $70/game to watch in Hawaii. Quite a stark contrast to the janky app we use to watch here.
Won’t be the only ones wiped out. I feel like a crazy person yelling about what is coming and people don’t see it.