(07-11-2017 09:32 AM)lew240z Wrote:  

(07-11-2017 09:02 AM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(07-11-2017 08:13 AM)lew240z Wrote:  

(07-11-2017 01:10 AM)lance99 Wrote:  

(07-10-2017 05:47 PM)lew240z Wrote:  Air Force has no interest at all in being in the same conference as Navy and Army. None. If they did, it would have already happened. Either Air Force or Colorado State would leave the other behind for the PAC 12 or Big XII. Neither has the slightest chance at the other P5's and I doubt that Air Force is acceptable to PAC since it is military and does virtually no research.

As far as changing to another G conference, why would they?

I thought that Air Force turned down the Big XII twice already?

They did, but there is a new Commandant and a new AD. They seem to be more open to the Big XII.

One of the instances was ahead of the TCU and WVU acquisitions, when the Big XII apparently approached them, Arkansas, Pitt, and some others. When was the other?

I believe it was the year before when it looked like Texhoma was leaving. There have been rumors of contact even earlier.

I think that might be the same one. The "deep dive" into Arky, Pitt, and AFA was done a bit before TCU and WVU amidst the panic. That "wish list" was something to keep Texas and Oklahoma happy enough. It didn't seem to matter: Texas still flirted with the PAC and OU and OSU went to the PAC for membership anyway, and once rejected, had to come to terms/compromise with a different set of schools.

I mean, maybe the conference went to AFA twice in that time to inquire and re-inquire, but that would have been, what...a year or less in-between? Within this relative episode of the B12 series?

I mean, it could be. AFAIK, Arkansas is to the Big XII as Army and Navy are/were to the Big East...kind of a right of first refusal arrangement. Maybe AFA was like that, too, but, if AFA was supposedly among the candidate pool of the last charade, they seem more like New Mexico in this thing: once desired, now, not so.