Green Otaku

Agree, and if that is the case the hammer needs to come down on the scheduling. If you are going to make us play NAIA and Div. II teams, there is no reason to be waiting until mid October to get it done.

I disagree. It looks bad now, it should have been done weeks ago.

Crow never tasted so good! What a comeback and fight to rally for the win. You take the win, GMG! Still I think we all agree, there is lots of things to clean up from this game. Too many mistakes making things harder than they need to be.

Too many mistakes on both sides of the ball. Offensive play calling has been bad, two touchdowns called back just because we weren't lined up right. Defense let's them do whatever they want, can't stop the run.

There's nothing like waiting until mid October to release a schedule that starts at the beginning of November.

Yup, you have 2 year grace period starting when teams depart, not when they announce departure.

UTEP is going to the MW not the PAC. They don't need to rush to get anyone in, the MW will have until July 1, 2028 to get 1 more member in. If the PAC doesn't get 8 by their deadline I don't know what happens, do they disband or do they not have a season?

They'd be on a pretty far island by going to the MWC, so I could see why they wouldn't want to go. Plus they would get a $3M or so bump in money, but far more travel.

Then they are doing a poor job and JM needs to come down on them for continually being weeks and sometimes months behind on releasing the schedule. I'm not saying it's easy, but you can't tell me we should be having a harder time to schedule than our conference mates who all get their deals done.

The Tech game was our chance to show where we stand against higher level competition, and we totally embarrassed ourselves. I can't blame the writers for feeling that way, we need to show that game was a mistake if we want to get higher consideration. Go out on the field and prove it.

That's not how conferences work. The commissioner can steer the direction of a conference, throw out ideas, and talk to networks, etc., I'm not saying they are powerless, but it is the members who ultimately vote on things. If they don't like the direction things are going they can tell the commish to come back with something different. It was said that adding WOSU to the MWC would be a 10% bump in revenue at most. They don't want to go to a conference and only make $5M a year, when they were making $21M a year before. They are doing everything in their power to not be seen as a G team, and they need to differentiate themselves from the rest somehow. That's why they wanted to poach the top of both conferences, they are shooting for that $15M a year to say, "Look, we are still above the rest of these teams." It's hubris.

That's the heart of the question, who is actually in charge of scheduling? Is it the coaches or the athletic department?

The PAC is in a weird place as I'm sure they don't want to take an FCS school, if your trying to build a premier conference the optics look bad. However there aren't a lot of options out there if they can't get other FBS schools to jump.

What a kick in the nuts it would be to have your game bought out by McNeese....

The PAC already had to take USU, and can't touch UNLV who signed the MW's agreement to stay until 2032. Gonzaga will also get a full share with no football which is 70% of a media deal's value. Outside of San Diego what other large metros can they pitch to networks? This seems like a mess already.

I've been hammering scheduling for the last few years, and I'm glad that at least all of my whining has brought attention to the subject. I feel like I was going crazy seeing this glaring flaw while everyone else thought it was no big deal. I'm tired of the "no on wants to play us" excuse. There's a reason we are always so late to finish our schedule, it's poor management. *edit to add: Looks like Tulsa finished their schedule a week ago. They also got Oral Roberts and Ok State at home. https://www.newson6.com/story/66f5ba99246ab73d42f7e315/tulsa-mens-basketball-releases-complete-2024-25-schedule So we are officially the last team left without a finished schedule. Saturday we will be 30 days out from the season starting.

We should have definitely pushed to have the home game first, but as long as they make the return next year it's a good team to have on the schedule.

If things stay as they are in the AAC we come out better in all of this. These two conferences basically weakened each other.

I didn't know she was a lawyer, yeah I bet they had the wording in that contract air tight. Haha that sounds like someone you don't want to mess with. She's been a powerhouse so far, I hope they take the PAC to the cleaners. Not just to keep the AAC safe, but for stabbing the MWC in the back after they agreed to help WOSU when they were in a bind.

I feel like the MW is going to fight like it's their last breath to get the full amount agreed upon. These two conferences are basically at war with each other, there will be no concessions. The MW also has the luxury of time, as even if they don't have 8 teams in place when their teams leave, their 2 year exemption doesn't start until 2026.

Nice, I call that a good deal.

If they are coming to Denton in the future I say that's a good deal, if not that is poor negotiating. Still, out of the types of teams available I'd rather play McNeese than some others out there.

Glad for UTEP, they've been isolated and forgotten for a long time. They naturally and culturally fit in the MW, but were always passed over, NMSU too.

Then those money figures have to be way off. They lose the top half of their conference but get almost a 50% increase? I just can't believe that.

Some more solid numbers should be coming out in the next few months, I think they will be lucky to get AAC numbers.