(05-21-2020 09:50 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(05-21-2020 09:23 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(05-21-2020 09:13 PM)DawgNBama Wrote:  

(05-17-2020 12:40 PM)joeben69 Wrote:  http://forgotten5.com/2020/05/11/the-fut...ce-part-1/

NMSU could join the Big West for Olympic sports, but that really doesn't help for football.

I'm really not sure that's true. The Big West is not the PCAA.

Are the Cal State Riverdale Archies and the UC San Junipero Black Mirrors really that interested in flying to Las Cruces every year, for the thrill of seeing New Mexico State take the Big West tournament bid 3 years out of 4?

Bearing in mind that the deal to have SDSU and Boise State play Olympic sports in the Big West included Boise State paying a travel subsidy, where the ability to pay that was based on the presumed media money the "Big East of Reno" was supposedly going to be getting. The old Big East media money coming up substantially short of what was hoped and not providing the same windfall after the travel subsidy cost was deducted was part of the calculation of Boise State abandoning the whole "Big East of Reno" plan, which forced SDSU out as well.

I think if the Big West wanted NMSU it would have already issued an invitation and NMSU would have already accepted it. It's not in the cards, especially with the Big West already expanding from 9 to 11 members this year.