If the best of the SBC East gets gobbled up by a depleted ACC, that means that they have also gobbled up the best of the AAC East.
At that point the AAC West schools will dominate the conversation and cherry pick what is left of the SBC. We would end up in a Texas based league with schools like UTSA, Texas State, Rice, North Texas, Tulsa, Arkansas State, Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss etc .etc.
Sounds good to me.
I’d be all for a south central type conference
If worthwhile for Memphis, Tulane, and UTSA to bolt for the refurbished PAC 12 the AAC is left with 10 all sports members:
Tulsa
North TX
Rice
UAB
So. FL
FAU
East Carolina
Charlotte
Navy
Temple
Army joined for football only. Wichita St. for Olympic sports only.
Pac 12 would be smart to stay west… I think they will eventually add Air Force and UNLV to get to 8…. After that they might try to push east into Texas, but right now no one knows the TV deal they will get… if I was them I would push hard to bring CAL and Standford back into the fold… the ACC is a dead man walking….if the ACC implodes the sunbelt will be in trouble if they keep a substantial portion of their TV deal intact…. Also could be a good situation for the belt to as the AAC could take the more northeast schools into their fold and the belt could pick up some southern schools… I think more than anything it will be what happens to the ACC tv deal in basketball that could decide if it can with stand the earthquake that is about to happen….. Memphis and Tulane want out the AAC so they will probably push hard to be a back fill if just FSU and Clemson leave. One thing for sure is as this playoff deal changes after next year you will see conferences make moves that will be the next big shift.
https://www.si.com/fannation/name-im...-12-conference
Texas st. Listed as #1 option outside of the MWC
I just saw a blurb online saying they could go after Texas State, among other schools.
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