Texas St. is talking with The American, Mountain West, and PAC-12.
Geographicaly, the AAC would make sense. Less travel cost. The one question they may have is which one (AAC or PAC-12) will have a better TV contract in the future?
Four AAC schools must have gotten word the PAC-12 just wouldn’t be worth it.
UTEP, Texas State and Tulsa and possibly, New Mexico make sense from the PAC…would be a true Western Conference.
Take New Mexico and Hawai’i off the list.
Seven Mountain West schools, including UNLV, have signed paperwork reaffirming their commitment to the league, sources confirmed Thursday afternoon.
A formal announcement from the league is expected later Thursday.
Football and Basketball Success were both a part but UH, UC, and UCF invested in their athletic programs (paying coaches, investing in facilities, etc.) that’s the common denominator compared to for example Memphis who wonders why they were left out.
Utah St. fans are saying make a sweeter offer to Memphis, Tulane, and UTSA.
Here is how Memphis sees it.
https://x.com/munzly/status/1839404501754929521
The PAC whatever must be trying to negotiate like they a power conference with phased in shares. I don’t blame Memphis for saying no to that.
Actually no. Hawai’i has their own TV deal and is the most valuable brand the MWC has left.
These things absolutely helped; I fully agree with you there.
However, despite all these things, official reports confirmed that we were going to be left out (again)…
Thats when zio Fertitta stepped in & got his buddies in TX Gov to start twisting arms (which I’m ultimately thankful for) 
I’d link the article (which I saved for posterity), but I’m at work rn hehe
McMurphy just tweeted that the MWC is approaching MAC teams Toledo and Northern Illinois for football only membership.
MWC after Tx St. I guess they would do it for a bonus check. Otherwise, seems like the SBC is a better place
https://x.com/petethamel/status/1839475998733066663?s=46&t=QaTBQ_PFQ7gLVOFwqBKG5Q
I talked to a relative who is a Texas St. alum and he felt The American would be their best option. He said the only negative he’d have with both the MWC and PAC-12 is game time and number of networks he may need to subscribe to so he can watch streaming games.
I talked to my older brother who is a TSU (first class to graduate under tsu v swt) alum and he said his opinion doesn’t mean jack to what conference they play under.
Yep. It has to be. The SEC leaked to media that they don’t want FS
It just backfired for ESPN because they NOW have to pay FULL shares to the ACC for Stanford + SMU + CAL.
ESPN could have blown up the ACC before that if they really wanted to but THEY- DID -NOT.
If the AAC and MWC are closed, then the PAC needs to grab Texas St and SHSU (maybe UTEP in place of SHSU). Gives them a solid market hold in Texas and does not have to try to convince FCS teams to move up. Also prevents them from getting too stretched, which I think is not good for the mid to low level conferences budgets.
Here’s the thing.
The PAC Light does actually have more Massey Top 60 football teams and Massey Top 80 basketball teams than the AAC (Memphis is the only one in the AAC in both).
BUT…
To be fair…
It’d be tough to convince a lot of schools to change conferences when you have no clue what their TV deal will be.
Hawai’i is only a partial member and has their own media deal.
Got this from my Texas St. relative
Texas St. to Mountain West…
https://x.com/StateBy90/status/1840743426012102985?s=19
Not official, but if true, what does PAC-XX do?
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