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Had the MWC added Fresno St instead of New Mexico
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RE: Had the MWC added Fresno St instead of New Mexico
(06-09-2021 06:46 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  
(06-09-2021 06:21 AM)templefootballfan Wrote:  The original WAC 16 split because Colo St, AF, Wym were not in same division as BYU, and losing out on their traveling fan base.

Pacific coast schools wanted expand to even out division with Nevada.
Tex schools said no, 2 days latter, they changed their mind.
Fresno, Hawaii, SJST threated to join Big West and form 9 FB and 15 BB conf.
( Nev,l Boise, Utah St, Idaho, NMST, No Tex )

This is the first I’ve read of the 3 west coast schools threatening to move to the Big West. It might have made things smoother in the end.

The question though is this, what do UTEP, Tulsa, SMU, TCU, and Rice do if they are left by themselves in the WAC in 1999? Do the MWC or C-USA poach any of them?

If they aren’t able to recruit anyone OUT of C-USA, I guess they are left with Ark St, ULL, and LA Tech. (Or maybe UCF affiliates with them)

15 teams in the Big West would have been wild. For an 18 game schedule, you could do 3 pods of 5–play pod mates twice and everyone else once:

Pod 1: Idaho, Boise St, Utah St, NMSU, UNT
Pod 2: Nevada, San Jose St, Pacific, Fresno St, Cal Poly
Pod 3: UC Irvine, UCSB, Long Beach St, Cal St Fullerton, Hawaii

The Texas schools should have told them not to let the door hit them on the way out.
06-09-2021 08:39 AM
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