It’s interesting because these schools have to pay a massive buyout to go to PAC12 because of the contract the pac 12 and MWC signed for scheduling. They did that to stop this exact thing from happening.
Obviously the PAC is going to pay that buyout for the schools, but it makes you wonder if they have some other bigger brand names they are going to go after soon to be in the PAC
The Pac name is worth something. Schools will have Presidents and Board members and ADs that want that name for their schools. WSU and OSU knew that and acted patiently to make certain they saved that name for their future.
The fools are the people running the MWC. The MWC is not some Rockies based old time league. It is a new creation to reject the utterly failed leadership of the WAC. So everybody in the MWC should have known all the facts, including the one about how virtually all its members would greatly prefer having the Pac name. MWC leaders should have been working with WSU and OSU to create that new Pac. But some of them would choose to fight that because of their own faith in delivering the final blow to the Pac, and some would fight it because they knew that the new Pac could not take 100% of the MWC members. Some would fight it because they knew that they would not be given positions as high in the new Pac.
What bigger names can they get? Going from CA to play in a league on the Atlantic Coast is not ideal, but does anybody think that Calford will give up new associations with all the elite ACC schools just to have their Pac name back and to become league peers with Boise St? Nor will AAU schools Utah, Arizona, and Arizona St want to kale a move back to only the Pac name.
The 6 Pac has 2 basic choices, which will be discussed and weighed as they have talks about future TV deals. One choice is to expand to 8 or 9, maybe 10, with each school located in either PST or MST. In many ways UNLV would be the best addition to go that route, but. aporblem may be UN-Reno, if the 6 Pac does not want 2 NX schools. Reno is the state's Flagship and Land Grant and has much more power in the state legislature, perhaps enough to derail UNLV leaving it behind.
As Reno is right on the CA border, close to Sacramento, and the Reno and SanFran areas have a goodly number of UN-Reno alums, having UN-Reno will lessen the calls to add San Jose ST. I would make the 9th New Mexico. I assume that many will want Air Force because it can put 40K in its football stadium anytime the Falcon are decent.
If I were CSU I would not want Wyoming because Wyoming recruits in CO against CSU for a dozen and more players every year. If I were Boise St, I would not want Utah St for a similar reason.
If the 6 Pac thinks it had best profit by goin g big, as in 14 or 16, maybe even more, then it will likely offer old Mississippi River foes Memphis and Tulane. The latter is just 2 seasons from winning the AAC and then toppling SoCal in a Major Bowl. Memphis easily could make the playoffs this season. If the Pac adds that pair, it then can bridge the geographic gap with TX schools, thus placing the league in both recruit loaded CA and TX.
