(12-23-2020 11:30 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(12-23-2020 11:16 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Well considering the levels of instability right now at Boise State (no athletic director, no football head coach and budget issues), I think it is unlikely any move gets made in the near-term.

Yes, which to me again suggests AAC caution. Why is Boise suddenly eager to make overtures? You don't do that from a position of perceived strength, and there's zero evidence Boise was interested in the AAC over the past seven years.

But now, with thing in disarray, they are interested. As someone else said, Boise is looking to the AAC to pull some chestnuts out of their fires for them.

Simple. The circumstances that led to them returning to the MW have changed. They went back to the MW because the conference offered them a special deal that made it financially logical for them to return. That deal was supposed to be permanent. The MW has now made it clear that the special deal will not be permanent and will sunset at the end of the current media deal (5 season from now).

The MW is no longer the most financially lucrative option for the Broncos. Its that simple. Throw in that there is friction over how the deal was pulled behind closed doors---and the feeling by Boise that too many MW teams arent that committed to football---and its easy to see why the Broncos might feel its now in their best interests to join the AAC "P6" movement--which is really just a step toward the original nationwide "best of the rest" concept the Big East was shooting for in 2011.