(06-01-2021 02:38 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(06-01-2021 12:48 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-01-2021 11:34 AM)Side.Show.Joe Wrote:  

(06-01-2021 11:13 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(06-01-2021 10:46 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Let’s speculate here—if this is true, what is the MWC’s move?

NMSU or UTEP for a 10th?

Do they dig deeper into Texas?

Is there an FCS candidate they’d rather bring up?

No reason at all to consider FCS schools if you're in the MWC position.

The four Texas-based C-USA schools (Rice, UTEP, UTSA and UNT) are the most attractive on top of being geographically palatable. I'm a bit biased toward taking the top academic school when one program isn't clearly above the others (particularly when it's directly located in a large market), so Rice would be my top pick if I was running the MWC. After that, it's a question of whether to add 2 more or stay at 10.

A MWC without Boise, San Diego State, and Colorado State is much less attractive to the Texas 4. Should the MWC lose Boise, SDSU, and CSU, their conference strength and media deal will be significantly reduced. UTEP might still be interested, but Rice, North Texas, and UTSA would probably be better off staying in C-USA.

I agree. An MW without those three school would basically be the WAC of 10 years ago, a collapsing conference.

I think it more likely the remainder shuffle off to other conferences than that the remainder could take teams from CUSA or any other G5.

There really aren't any other conferences they could shuffle off to. They would still be a viable conference with 9 FB members and 8 all sports members. Any Texas schools they might add would weaken the MWC even more than they already were. They wouldn't be a collapsing conference because the MWC would still be by far the best option for all the remaining schools.

Exactly!

They don't need a lot of inventory because a lot of their inventory now isn't desired by the networks.

Go lean and mean, making sure to hit the minimums necessary to maximize revenue and any auto bid requirements

If Boise, SDSU, and Colorado St are the schools that leave, all sponsored MWC sports will still be above minimums