Mountain West Moves

[azfan]

Mountain West Conference pauses expansion amid legal dispute with Pac-12

Both conferences are in a legal dispute about poaching fees and are headed back to court after failing to reach an agreement.

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3 Takeaways from Pac-12/Mountain West Mediation Talks 3 Takeaways from Pac-12/Mountain West Mediation Talks

Chaos continues to cloud the future of the Mountain West and one wonders about the upcoming season.

The September hearing stemming from the failure and mediation and have resulting lawsuit between MW and Pac-12 could completely upend the conference.

As a Grand Canyon fan I was excited to see the women in a position to compete with UNLV and now it appears that baring a victory by the MW the Rebels may be running to some power 4 conference.

 

[Vowelguy]

3 Takeaways from Pac-12/Mountain West Mediation Talks 3 Takeaways from Pac-12/Mountain West Mediation Talks

Chaos continues to cloud the future of the Mountain West and one wonders about the upcoming season.

The September hearing stemming from the failure and mediation and have resulting lawsuit between MW and Pac-12 could completely upend the conference.

as a Grand Canyon fan I was excited to see the women in a position to compete with UNLV and now it appears that baring a victory by the MW the Rebels may be running to some power 4 conference.

UNLV aint goin to a P4. A move to the PAC is very possible though.

 

[Drew]

 

[Vowelguy]

The sinking ship MWC had the chance to add NDSU/SDSU/Montana/MontSt and they passed? That mightve been stronger than the new PAC in FB.
As much as conference realignment is bad luck, some of it is just a load of bad decisions.

 

[Rufus]

MW is crazy to not find a way to make this happen. I think those schools add value to the PAC-12 too. Imagine football with Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, San Diego State, the 4 Montanas and Dakotas. That would be a fun conference to watch!

 

[Vowelguy]

MW is crazy to not find a way to make this happen. I think those schools add value to the PAC-12 too. Imagine football with Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, San Diego State, the 4 Montanas and Dakotas. That would be a fun conference to watch!

Conference USA should be beating a path to their door. That would be a huge boost to their profile.

MAC, for that matter, should be considering. It's against their type/tradition, but it might be their last shot at relevance or survival.

 

[TRest]

Conference USA should be beating a path to their door. That would be a huge boost to their profile.

MAC, for that matter, should be considering. It's against their type/tradition, but it might be their last shot at relevance or survival.

those 4 schools have a fun football tradition. Those three states combined have less population than just Connecticut. If it matters.

 

[Vowelguy]

those 4 schools have a fun football tradition. Those three states combined have less population than just Connecticut. If it matters.

Eyeballs come from having a built-in fanbase and/or having a quality product. I would absolutely watch NDSU before a lot of big-market teams. C-USA and MAC have awful products. Adding teams that raise the level of play would be a significant gain.

If not, are they even around in 10 years?

 

[TRest]

Eyeballs come from having a built-in fanbase and/or having a quality product. I would absolutely watch NDSU before a lot of big-market teams. C-USA and MAC have awful products. Adding teams that raise the level of play would be a significant gain.

If not, are they even around in 10 years?

Agreed, for those conferences. But Connecticut gets the small state/small market reputation keeping it down. I blame the Yankee Conference.

 

[huskymedic]

The sinking ship MWC had the chance to add NDSU/SDSU/Montana/MontSt and they passed? That mightve been stronger than the new PAC in FB.
As much as conference realignment is bad luck, some of it is just a load of bad decisions.

MW is crazy to not find a way to make this happen. I think those schools add value to the PAC-12 too. Imagine football with Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, San Diego State, the 4 Montanas and Dakotas. That would be a fun conference to watch!

Exclusive: Commissioner Gloria Nevarez on the Mountain West and College Football’s Future

The Mountain West Conference has been reshaped over the last year. Commissioner Gloria Nevarez believes her conference is in a unique position as the shifting landscape of college athletics continues to reshape the West. “This year is going to be really special,” Nevarez said. “We're in the...

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-> “There are a lot of amazing FCS programs that we would ordinarily be very interested in,” she explained. “There's a two-year waiting period, there's a $5 million fee that needs to be paid, and we just strategically at this time didn't want to take the risk that those bylaws might change, might get more stringent, or the pathway to FBS might close before those schools had an opportunity to join us. So we did not consider FCS this time around—not for lack of potentially great schools.”

For now, the league is holding steady. “Never say never,” Nevarez said. “We're just on pause for now. We're going to get through a media rights [negotiation], but we are constantly looking at membership.” <-