(11-12-2018 03:21 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  

(11-08-2018 07:20 AM)RobtheAggie Wrote:  

(11-07-2018 09:27 PM)NoDak Wrote:  NMSU seems to love the company of lowly rated academic and research schools. Hang out with a bunch of commuter schools and former JC’s.

Any President in that predicament would try to get other higher rated schools in with the lure of FBS, but maybe I’m just too narrow minded.

I know that all you are doing is trollings, but I think that you misunderstand NMSU to a great extent. They would much rather be in a conference with like schools, but they want a western centered one. They could have stayed in the Sun Belt, but instead chose to jump to the WAC, when it was full of like institutions. I still think that eventually they will end up in the MWC or CUSA/Sun Belt reorganization and be with like institutions.

For the time being, the WAC is what it is. The overall athletics are getting better. Give UTRGV a few more years and it will have the merger figured out and be a much stronger school as well.

I had read several times that NMSU was booted out of Sun Belt, am I wrong?


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Nope... Benson wanted a smaller geographic footprint for the Sun Belt. And, since NMSU (and Idaho) no longer served a purpose with some CFP committee rules changes both were ousted as partial football-only members. NMSU did apply for full membership but is was squashed before our AD could present our case.

The two changes that spelled NMSU's doom were the CFP payout system of $1-million per school allotment which they capped at 10 schools; instead of the number of schools per conference which perpetuated larger conference alignments like CUSA. And, the ability for a conference to host a Conference Championship game was dropped from 12 members to just 10 members; to appease the Big 12. Both rules changes made it unnecessary to renew either NMSU and/or Idaho's membership in the SBC; a 4-year agreement both NMSU and Idaho signed in order to have an FBS football home.