Conference realignment isn't over - PAC12 coming back





I dont even know why I bother, but i'm gonna do it anyways. The AAC has Memphis, Tulane.... and who else? And Tulane has only been good for about 5 years. Houston, gone. UCF, Gone. Cinci, gone. Army and Navy are decent some years. Boise literally just went to the playoff, the AAC is yet to send a team.

Oklahoma State has had more success than everyone in the AAC, by far. Washington State beat Texas Tech and Washington last year. The Pac 12 will easily be the G5 conference that's most likely to get that playoff spot every year. Hell, the AAC hasn't even been able to beat out the MWC for that spot. The AAC was ranked behind the Sunbelt last year lol.

Some of yall just get online and say anything like it can't just be googled.
 
unknown1 said:
I dont even know why I bother, but i'm gonna do it anyways. The AAC has Memphis, Tulane.... and who else? And Tulane has only been good for about 5 years. Houston, gone. UCF, Gone. Cinci, gone. Army and Navy are decent some years. Boise literally just went to the playoff, the AAC is yet to send a team.

Oklahoma State has had more success than everyone in the AAC, by far. Washington State beat Texas Tech and Washington last year. The Pac 12 will easily be the G5 conference that's most likely to get that playoff spot every year. Hell, the AAC hasn't even been able to beat out the MWC for that spot. The AAC was ranked behind the Sunbelt last year lol.

Some of yall just get online and say anything like it can't just be googled.
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Delusion at it's finest. It doesnt matter if a school been good 4-5 years. The Pac-12 is below the AAC. I said they took a hit. Then you named three Pac-12 schools. Two that were already P4/P5 and Boise because the rest is trash.

When you KNOW what you are talking about, "google" is not needed.
 
It's definitely official now:

Published: 12:59 PM CDT June 30, 2025
Updated: 4:35 PM CDT June 30, 2025

On Monday, the university's Board of Regents unanimously approved a $5 million payout to the Sun Belt Conference, allowing TXST to instead join the Pac-12.
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Texas State joins Pac-12 conference

Texas State will soon be part of the Pac-12.
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It wasn't necessarily an enrollment thing. They wanted Memphis and Tulane first but their exit fees were too high for it to make sense to the schools. The Pac has been trying to get into Texas since before Texas and Oklahoma went to the SEC. Super win for Texas State though.. from making 1.7 mil a year to 8-10 mil a year, national tv games and a good chance to make the playoffs.
 
LAW DAWG said:
It's definitely official now:

Published: 12:59 PM CDT June 30, 2025
Updated: 4:35 PM CDT June 30, 2025

On Monday, the university's Board of Regents unanimously approved a $5 million payout to the Sun Belt Conference, allowing TXST to instead join the Pac-12.
www.khou.com

Texas State joins Pac-12 conference

Texas State will soon be part of the Pac-12.
www.khou.com www.khou.com
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It's amazing how quickly the growth from d-2 southwest texas state grew to fbs texas state into the pac-12.

Most former d-2 bulging schools really made certain schools look silly w/ their growth and their dominance over the same still current smaller schools.

Perhaps PV should reclassify as d-2 and try this whole thing over again. I want a do-over lol.
 
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Lenard said:
It's amazing how quickly the growth from from d-2 southwest texas state grew to fbs texas state into the pac-12.

Most former d-2 bulging schools really made certain schools look silly w/ their growth and their dominance over the same still current smaller schools.

Perhaps PV should reclassify as d-2 and try this whole thing over again. I want a do-over lol.
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My TSU made a big mistake moving as fast from NAIA to FCS without adequate funding to support the move. In part, that type of decision making led to cutting corners and taking risk that eventually caused NCAA woes. Reverberations from those woes sre still impacting the program.
 



LAW DAWG said:
My TSU made a big mistake moving as fast from NAIA to FCS without adequate funding to support the move. In part, that type of decision making led to cutting corners and taking risk that eventually caused NCAA woes. Reverberations from those woes sre still impacting the program.
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The right people to make a major move, smartly and efficiently, were not in place. They were ineptly unqualified.
 
LAW DAWG said:
My TSU made a big mistake moving as fast from NAIA to FCS without adequate funding to support the move. In part, that type of decision making led to cutting corners and taking risk that eventually caused NCAA woes. Reverberations from those woes sre still impacting the program.
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the SWAC was strongarmed at the time to do it - administrators knew at the time they weren't prepared but were basically told to go full steam from the top - I saw a letter from Rod Paige indicating it
 
unknown1 said:
It wasn't necessarily an enrollment thing. They wanted Memphis and Tulane first but their exit fees were too high for it to make sense to the schools. The Pac has been trying to get into Texas since before Texas and Oklahoma went to the SEC. Super win for Texas State though.. from making 1.7 mil a year to 8-10 mil a year, national tv games and a good chance to make the playoffs.
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enrollment matters meaning you have 40k students to throw a fee at yearly to see if it sticks - they don't draw much as a whole but they have the enrollment to boost funding so why not throw darts at the board? If a SWAC school had 40k students you would see the same thing
 
the band fan said:
the SWAC was strongarmed at the time to do it - administrators knew at the time they weren't prepared but were basically told to go full steam from the top - I saw a letter from Rod Paige indicating it
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Paige is definitely someone that would have been in the information loop at that time.

It obviously was foolishness because it sure wasn't business sense nor common sense that drove those series of bad decisions. The consequences were very predictable, and time has certainly borne that out.

@the band fan - Strong armed by who?
 
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