(09-14-2017 07:05 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(09-14-2017 06:59 AM)fanhood Wrote:  

(09-14-2017 06:55 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(09-14-2017 06:50 AM)fanhood Wrote:  

(09-14-2017 06:48 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  nice

I was sad when SDSU pulled out of the expansion of the Big East (due to Boise).

Eh, I was happy since the American had since lost Rutgers and Louisville, and I like regional conferences. That is how it should be.

Furthermore, relegating our basketball program to the Big West would have destroyed it, so it wasn't worth it (And I don't even care about basketball).

I would have supported joining the AAC if the dollars and cents made sense. Alas, it didn't then, and still doesn't to this point.

For your guys to have non football in the Big West the football $ and situation would have to be premium. IE, the AAC schools add you, BYU, Boise, all get $8-10mil/school and an auto bid to an NY6 bowl. That would do it, but I don't see that happening in all likelihood.

I would skip over to this conference, call you all my brothers, and celebrate that day if it happened. $8-10 million would be spectacular as would some kind of "auto-bid."

A Western Division with BYU, Boise, SDSU, Houston, and SMU would be fun. However, no auto-bid is coming, and I expect the AAC to get about $3-4 million in their next TV contract. Thus, there is no benefit for BYU, Boise or SDSU to join this conference.

The MW is fine. We are all in the same boat until your scenario happens. I sure it hope it does though. I like the MW, but SDSU is getting to the point where we are a "program" and not just a handful of recruiting classes. We need to keep growing.

agree...if all the AAC gets is $3-4mil/team/year then yes, there is not point for you guys to join and it would be a bad move for you.

I don't see the $8-10 mil and auto bid either but yeah, if that happened, and you guys joined, it would be really fun. The only way that would happen though is you guys come to the table with Aresco and get the agreement "if we join, we want xyz" prior to you joining. It would be worth a shot at least. Worst case tv says 'no' and that's that. I'm sure everyone in our boat is exploring every avenue.