Following this morning’s sudden and somewhat unexpected announcement that Boise State would be joining three other Mountain West schools to join the pac-12, athletic director Jeramiah Dickey met with the media to take questions. The entirety of the press conference can be viewed here:
Any additional thoughts after hearing from the athletic director? Let us know in the comments!
I can’t even describe how angry I am about this. The PAC12 always thought themselves too good for these Mtn West schools. When conferences started re-aligning it was blatantly obvious that the PAC12 needed to add or it would be obsolete. They chose to die rather than bring in Mtn West teams. And die they did. Their organization signed a crappy TV deal, didn’t have enough vision to expand when they should have and basically trashed one of the most legendary football conferences in the nation. I’m all about dancing with the girl you brought. The Mountain West has been… Read more »
Let’s face it; that PAC12 you speak of is dead. None of the elite, upity, snobbish, condescending bores remain. You can call it PAC Anything and it just ain’t so. That said; it will not be a P-Anything conference. It will just be a good G-Something conference. The old PAC could not get rid of the dregs of their conference. And they could not attract other upity, snobbish, condescending bores so they left the conference and left the dregs on their own. The thing that kept the old conference structure in place was the historical and regional rivalries. However, the… Read more »
Which is why a bi-coastal alliance kind of makes more sense. They can keep divisions on either coast and best team hosts the championship. Or neutral field.
I’m just saying, between the Mountain West and Pac 12, only one is still serviceable and we are committing to the non-viable conference. Even after they build up to 10 or 12 teams, we are in no better position. OSU and Wazzu would have come to the Mountain West had those schools declined.
It’s stoopid.
a bi-coastal alliance kind of makes more sense???? East coast – West coast? or West coast gulf Coast…. The only “Coasts I can think of that physically exist and could make a “bi-coastal alliance”…. or are you suggesting the relegation proposal that BSU offered up? I really like the relegation idea but obviously not everyone else did… and I would definitely not identify it as “bi-coastal” since all the teams would be “West Coast or Mountain region. I will also argue all day long that the “new PAC” is more “viable” than even the Mountain West. I mean look at… Read more »
I’m suggesting they go after the ACC for merger. ACC includes many east coast teams. We have the west coast. What am I missing here?
You are not getting anyone from the ACC… unless it totally implodes… They make way too much in the ACC and the buy out? ask Florida State and Clemson…. That one is in court as we speak. and it is not about leaving for less money…
Maybe you mean the AAC… which would be a weight… and albatross if you will, not a good idea.
If you actually do mean the ACC… Then you know nothing about these conferences…
I guess I know nothing about these conferences. Thanks for educating me.
But I can count to 6, and 6 teams are currently signed up for the Pac12. So I’m not gonna say anything else about it until it all plays out.
Wow Boise, following your advice we would still be in the Big Sky…. Don’t like your cheese moved? If you recall the Formation of the Mountain West actually devastated the WAC. Remind me how BSU moved from the Big West??? This is the way of the world and you have to look after yourself or the world will simply crush you. Now your point that the PAC was elitist? Yes I agree. But the biggest offenders are all gone now. You have to think of them as 12 individuals. Just because they are a group does not mean they all… Read more »
The Big Sky move isn’t comparable. FCS to BCS. The move to the mountain west was a move to a better conference, even if very briefly since TCU and Utah were still part of the conference. That was the way of college football then. I would argue that the move to a smaller conference is living in the past. College football is rapidly changing. The modern play is to consolidate conferences, weeding out the non-contenders. It’s musical chairs while building 16 team conferences. We just committed to a conference with 8 teams because it’s perceived to be a superior conference.… Read more »
Excuse me? we committed to a conference of 8 teams???? Not the way I read this. I thought we just committed to building a new conference out of the dust of an old one. I have not read anywhere that the number was limited to anything. I have read where they MUST have a minimum of 8 to qualify as an on going concern. You are right that the other conferences will want to quash the auto bid for the PAC…. BUT for now I believe it is written into a legally binding agreement. Now could that change in the… Read more »
At present, it looks like a six-team conference. I would say a couple of schools are just tying up so lose ends and will announce later. I think those schools are UNLV and San Jose State, and perhaps Utah State and Nevada too. That said, after a couple of years in The BIG or whoever, some of those schools will become disenchanted and return to the fold.
I do not think you are right on the additional schools…. UNLV is a big big maybe, not the others. Memphis, and someone from Texas my guess… but BSU will help make that decision. I think they have a problem if CAL or Stanford try to return… They are elitist. But they are ACC (good luck with that travel). NO ONE from the BIG10 is returning for less money…. That is not happening. CAL and Stanford are the only possibilities and that is if the ACC crumbles.
The more I think about my comments, they should be taken as sort of a knee-jerk reaction. Sort of trying to keep some of the old band-together type of thinking. I agree with the Memphis prospect. This morning, on BNN, they mentioned that UNLV is likely the sixth draw in an oversaturated sports market, so maybe the PAC doesn’t want them.
Petition to call the new conference Pac-State.
I was thinking the same thing…. but then realized that they will probably add a few “Non”- state teams LOL!
Haha Yes, it would be best for the conference, since it will only be a temporary place for teams without big names in the PAC12. As a side note, the Oregon State AD said academic performance is a consideration for the next schools added to the conference, while Jeremiah Dickey said academic performance was not mentioned. So maybe indicating OSU and WSU were a bit desperate and BSU carries significant weight in the PAC12.
Pacific Mountain Sports Conference (The PMS Conference)
There is a lot here we don’t know, and I can sense the frustration here on FKWG (OBNUG die-hards live on forever!). Nevertheless, this is the BEST MOVE for us. Hear me out: While the new Pac-12 won’t have P4/5 status, it will be the “best of the rest.” Especially if the new league is able to add Memphis & Tulane + maybe UNLV. In the new playoff era our team doesn’t have to be a P4/5 … all we have to do is be one of 5 highest ranked champions. More often than not (i.e., almost every year), the… Read more »
I don’t know. If we are talking pure playoff strategy, why would we leave a conference that we know that we can dominate? Why are we looking to stack all of the remaining good programs so that we face them every year? As it stands now, we win the mountain west and perform in our pre-season matchups and we are in! I just see it as two options. Either stay where we are and feast on the mountain west, or move to a power conference. This third option of joining a failed conference with only 6 committed teams has me… Read more »