(09-04-2019 02:41 PM)Lopes87 Wrote:  

(09-04-2019 11:55 AM)Hilldog Wrote:  

(09-04-2019 11:35 AM)Lopes87 Wrote:  I can back up DA on that fact that NMSU/GCU partnership to being a package deal is a real thing.

Also a top 50 program will raise the profile of any league out west minus P12. WCC aren't interested in NMSU by themselves but if GCU is part of the deal then boom you get two schools with good OLY sports to join the WCC and if Gonzaga or BYU dips they are fine with the quality or if you plug in the Big West GCU probably won't get in by themselves but if you add NMSU to the bid Big West would be open to it I'm sure of it.

Both GCU and NMSU by themselves haven't broken the code to dip on the WAC yet on their own so go into it as a packaged deal helps both schools out in the long term for OLY's NMSU football could probably last a bit longer as a indy if this happens.

While I'll never say never, it's highly doubtful the WCC will add a public school. They want religious schools. Sure, you can make the case that Pacific isn't that religious, but NMSU has no religious background.

While, I do think it's hypocritical for any schools who are always chasing the money, to look down at a For Profit school. GCU will always have that For Profit label held against them.

Yeah you are right from 1949-2003,2018-present non profit, 2004-2017 for-profit. So 56 years being a non profit school will be trumped for 14 years of for profit schooling?

Also WCC have had public schools part of their league it hasn't happened since the 70's but SJSU, Fresno St, UCSB, Nevada, UNLV. So there is precedent of it happening and how it can happen again.

Oh yeah. Once upon a time, aka from the mid 90s through the mid 2000s GCU shared a conference with UC Riverside, UCSD, UC Davis and CSUB. Granted that was prior to their for-profit conversion, but then they reunited with CSUB again this decade.

The additions of Boise and CSUB to the BW jaded my views on academic prestige a bit. I'm not anti-GCU like others are.