https://sports.yahoo.com/aac-says-it-won...14572.html

If Cal and Stanford were not part of the deal, then it does not make sense financially for the conference. And as far as a reformed PAC, there is no way that it is gonna get enough TV dollars to justify us as a school to look West.

On the bright side, at least the road to the G5 spot in the playoff is easier (till that gets taken away)

MWC gonna get the last 2 Pac schools or vice versa. Even in a 5+7 playoff format, the AAC champ would almost never get in over the MW champ.

Well, that's certainly interesting. Makes it sound like it's not really an option for most of the AAC to go to the PAC either.

(09-01-2023 10:35 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  MWC gonna get the last 2 Pac schools or vice versa. Even in a 5+7 playoff format, the AAC champ would almost never get in over the MW champ.

IDK, I just don't see ORSt or Wash St being that good at the G5 level. I mean they had all the resources of the PAC and still didn't do too much winning, so imagine them without all those resources. I still think the American is the superior conf even with the MW adding in the PAC 2

(09-01-2023 10:29 AM)BERT56 Wrote:  https://sports.yahoo.com/aac-says-it-won...14572.html

The AAC is always reactionary.

The MWC will pass us by soon.

(09-01-2023 11:29 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(09-01-2023 10:29 AM)BERT56 Wrote:  https://sports.yahoo.com/aac-says-it-won...14572.html

The AAC is always reactionary.

The MWC will pass us by soon.

Absolutely. Had we not added these new schools, we could have probably just blown up the AAC and took the best 5-6 and joined the PAC. Then add the best of the MWC and it would have been a true, best of the rest.

As it stands now, the AAC is a complete dumpster fire. I can’t wait to see who is going to replace SMU. Texas State? Lol

(09-01-2023 11:29 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(09-01-2023 10:29 AM)BERT56 Wrote:  https://sports.yahoo.com/aac-says-it-won...14572.html

The AAC is always reactionary.

The MWC will pass us by soon.

Soon? That ship sailed when the Big 12 raided us.

unfortunately, the AAC is moving… south.

So the PAC 2 probably absorb most if not all of the MWC under the PAC name.

I could see them then adding 4-6 AAC schools to ensure that they are the best G5 fb conference every single year.

It's over with the B12 for sure - unless they decide for some reason to add Oregon and Washington State but I don't know why they would.

For Memphis the best hope now is that the nPAC decides to expand east into the Central time zone - otherwise yeah, it's over and this time for good.

(09-01-2023 11:51 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  unfortunately, the AAC is moving… south.

there's no other way to put it

can't put lipstick on a pig

Here's how I see this playing out.

PAC 2 absorb the MWC (or most of it) under the PAC name.

nPAC then takes 4-6 AAC teams that solidifies the nPAC as the undisputed best G5 conference and at the same time permanently cripples its closest competition.

That's what I think is going to happen - and I think any AAC team invited to the nPAC will accept while giving the 2 year notice to the AAC.

Aresco is fixing to get bent over - again.

(09-01-2023 12:17 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  Here's how I see this playing out.

PAC 2 absorb the MWC (or most of it) under the PAC name.

nPAC then takes 4-6 AAC teams that solidifies the nPAC as the undisputed best G5 conference and at the same time permanently cripples its closest competition.

That's what I think is going to happen - and I think any AAC team invited to the nPAC will accept while giving the 2 year notice to the AAC.

Aresco is fixing to get bent over - again.

Pac is dead. MWC will absorb OSU and Wazzu. Exit fees at MWC are too much for schools to pay.

ACC will lose FSU, Clemson, UNC, UVA, Miami and possibly GA Tech, NC State, Duke and BC to the SEC, B1G and Big 12 in some fashion.

(09-01-2023 11:37 AM)memtiger1987 Wrote:  

(09-01-2023 11:29 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(09-01-2023 10:29 AM)BERT56 Wrote:  https://sports.yahoo.com/aac-says-it-won...14572.html

The AAC is always reactionary.

The MWC will pass us by soon.

Absolutely. Had we not added these new schools, we could have probably just blown up the AAC and took the best 5-6 and joined the PAC. Then add the best of the MWC and it would have been a true, best of the rest.

As it stands now, the AAC is a complete dumpster fire. I can’t wait to see who is going to replace SMU. Texas State? Lol

I'm hoping Midd Tenn. I love their fight song.

(09-01-2023 12:25 PM)BERT56 Wrote:  

(09-01-2023 12:17 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  Here's how I see this playing out.

PAC 2 absorb the MWC (or most of it) under the PAC name.

nPAC then takes 4-6 AAC teams that solidifies the nPAC as the undisputed best G5 conference and at the same time permanently cripples its closest competition.

That's what I think is going to happen - and I think any AAC team invited to the nPAC will accept while giving the 2 year notice to the AAC.

Aresco is fixing to get bent over - again.

Pac is dead. MWC will absorb OSU and Wazzu. Exit fees at MWC are too much for schools to pay.

ACC will lose FSU, Clemson, UNC, UVA, Miami and possibly GA Tech, NC State, Duke and BC to the SEC, B1G and Big 12 in some fashion.

The MWC commissioner is one of the best in the nation. There is money on the table in the PAC. This woman will end up running the reformed PAC and taking a chunk of the MWC with her.

Whether she wants to raid the AAC or not I don't know, but when the dust settles, the PAC will still be standing and run by Gloria Nevarez.

I just don't see where we go from here. We are out of options. FedEx and AZ and whatever other corporate muscle we have should go HAM and get us in the SEC. I know it sounds crazy, but what if we offered to take a reduced rate. We can't afford to do what SMU is doing and not taking any money.

grandpa needs to retire

Big 12 will step back in and take the final 2.

Without the Cal schools the Pac will not reform.

(09-01-2023 01:50 PM)batman Wrote:  I just don't see where we go from here. We are out of options. FedEx and AZ and whatever other corporate muscle we have should go HAM and get us in the SEC. I know it sounds crazy, but what if we offered to take a reduced rate. We can't afford to do what SMU is doing and not taking any money.

I think we have been out of options since the B12/ESPN told Memphis and Fed Ex to go jump 6-7 years ago or however that went down. Since then, we haven’t sniffed a P5 invite

(09-01-2023 12:25 PM)BERT56 Wrote:  

(09-01-2023 12:17 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  Here's how I see this playing out.

PAC 2 absorb the MWC (or most of it) under the PAC name.

nPAC then takes 4-6 AAC teams that solidifies the nPAC as the undisputed best G5 conference and at the same time permanently cripples its closest competition.

That's what I think is going to happen - and I think any AAC team invited to the nPAC will accept while giving the 2 year notice to the AAC.

Aresco is fixing to get bent over - again.

Pac is dead. MWC will absorb OSU and Wazzu. Exit fees at MWC are too much for schools to pay.

ACC will lose FSU, Clemson, UNC, UVA, Miami and possibly GA Tech, NC State, Duke and BC to the SEC, B1G and Big 12 in some fashion.

If the MWC disbands there are no exit fees. If the PAC 2 absorb enough of the MWC into the PAC name to disband then that's what will happen.