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HookedonGriz said:https://twitter.com/lance_hartz/status/1312079856499224576?s=21
Griz66 said:My comment would be who cares--we need less schools in the conference anyhow
I think the WAC is planning to poach a few of our bottom dwellers. By that I mean the schools with the worst facilities, lowest budgets, and lowest chances of doing anything about it. I can think of several programs they might target. I think they are planning to have at least 6 FCS football plaing additions. If they can't pull this off, they will likely fold up shop. I think they will go after west coast schools first. I think that NCU would be a last resort. I'm not sure that anyone really wants them. I can see them going after SDU, SUU, DSU, CD, Sac, Polly, and maybe PSU.CDAGRIZ said:Would be a shame if NCU jumped ship to the WAC, too.
A real shame.
Isn't Dixie St. already in the WAC?oldrunner said:I think the WAC is planning to poach a few of our bottom dwellers. By that I mean the schools with the worst facilities, lowest budgets, and lowest chances of doing anything about it. I can think of several programs they might target. I think they are planning to have at least 6 FCS football plaing additions. If they can't pull this off, they will likely fold up shop. I think they will go after west coast schools first. I think that NCU would be a last resort. I'm not sure that anyone really wants them. I can see them going after SDU, SUU, DSU, CD, Sac, Polly, and maybe PSU.CDAGRIZ said:Would be a shame if NCU jumped ship to the WAC, too.
A real shame.
I'd add NAU to the list; more likely than PSU.oldrunner said:I think the WAC is planning to poach a few of our bottom dwellers. By that I mean the schools with the worst facilities, lowest budgets, and lowest chances of doing anything about it. I can think of several programs they might target. I think they are planning to have at least 6 FCS football plaing additions. If they can't pull this off, they will likely fold up shop. I think they will go after west coast schools first. I think that NCU would be a last resort. I'm not sure that anyone really wants them. I can see them going after SDU, SUU, DSU, CD, Sac, Polly, and maybe PSU.CDAGRIZ said:Would be a shame if NCU jumped ship to the WAC, too.
A real shame.
IdaGriz01 said:The WAC is weird, for sure.
What I find interesting is how many Big Sky schools are already affiliate members (per Wikipedia) ... in sports that the BSC doesn't sponsor: Sac State (baseball), UI (women's swimming), NAU (women's swimming), and UNC (baseball and women's swimming).
If the WAC does put together a football program at the FCS level, New Mexico State will be caught between a rock and a hard place. There are those who would rather just drop the sport altogether rather than go FCS. Do not know how prevalent that feeling is, but they were certainly vocal about it when UI dropped back to FCS.
Weber will go nowhere, travel partner for ISU, both charter members. UI the ideal travel partner for EWU. CWU could still be added and partner with PSU. The ideal conference would be nine members for a balanced 8 game conf. schedule. Like before Fullerton. UNC likely to stay.OrgonGriz said:I seem to recall reading the WAC wanted to offer a split division in for football, some FCS some FBS., with FCS members building to move up to FBS? Does anyone else recall that?
Frankly I would be happy to see NAU, Poly, Davis, SAC and UNC bail for the WAC with SUU or for any other conference for that matter!
BSC with:
UM
MSU
UI
ISU
EWU
PSU
WSU. Would Webs want to go to the WAC?
IF Webs left, maybe CWU would / could move up from DII to be a travel partner to EWU? Might even look to WOU to move up from DII to be travel partner for PSU. That wouldn’t be to bad of a mainly northwestern states conference. Which could easily be a bus conference if absolutely necessary.
We may see even bigger shake ups with COV19 transforming the face of college sports.
BisonCardinal said:Plus WAC member Utah Valley is starting football with UTRGV seriously considering it.