What I'm thinking about reallignment

[CajunRebel]

What a weird world we live in when Sun Belt bottom dweller Texas St. has become the prettiest girl at the dance.

Nothing makes sense in college football anymore.

[JMV JustMyView]

1. That "TXST to the MWC" was a smokescreen started by TXST to try to force the PAC's hand. It may work but I'm thinking it won't. With the MWC adding UTEP and in serious talks with Tarleton, that tells me TXST is off the table. Smart move by TXST. I figured they weren't that stupid.

2. Today Gonzaga announced to the PAC-12. When you look at the "new" league, there are good hoops schools that have left the MWC. But that move speaks volumes. Gonzaga wouldn't have said yes without knowing the PAC's plans for the one addition. And they weren't coming if TXST is the choice IMO.

3. I truly believe Memphis is back on the table for the PAC, without Tulane or USF. I think the PAC will sweeten the pot and Memphis would love to be in the same league as the Zags.

4. If I'm right, I don't think the AAC necessarily needs to do anything. They don't have divisional play and they have plenty of schools. They COULD add someone, but they don't have to.

5. I think Texas State remains in the SBC, which should make you all sleep better, considering what the possibilities are if they should leave.

That's what I think. We'll see how right or wrong I am.

Oh, and neither UTEP nor UNM would stomach NMSU. That's not on the table.

Thanks Jay.

[CajunVic]

America has developed some pretty salty lenses these days . . . it’s all in what is seen through those lenses . . .

[RedTails]

Sources: Texas State’s talks with the Mountain West have stalled. The school has informed the Sun Belt that it won’t be going to the Mountain West. Texas State received a verbal offer over the weekend.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) October 1, 2024

[ZoomZoom]

Sources: Texas State’s talks with the Mountain West have stalled. The school has informed the Sun Belt that it won’t be going to the Mountain West. Texas State received a verbal offer over the weekend.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) October 1, 2024

I’d guess the tell was Tarleton State being courted by the MWC. The gnashing of teeth from CUSA filled the air.

[Cajunrunner]

What a weird world we live in when Sun Belt bottom dweller Texas St. has become the prettiest girl at the dance.

Nothing makes sense in college football anymore.

Bottom dweller in football, but very competitive in other sports and a university president who has been very outgoing about being serious in athletic progress. The campaign they ran over the summer is something I wish we’d do.

[JMV JustMyView]

What a weird world we live in when Sun Belt bottom dweller Texas St. has become the prettiest girl at the dance.

Nothing makes sense in college football anymore.

Overall as an athletic department I wouldn't say these guys are a bottom dwellers.

[Policarp]

I recall 1 really good year in baseball and 1 in basketball. Handful of decent years____the rest were garbage.

Football has ONE 6 win year in 10 years. If it weren't for ULM, Texas State would easily have been the worst Sun Belt football team in the past decade.

[Jacob81]

I agree. Texas state is always a good preseason team. Rarely live up to it though.

That loss to shsu is a good example. Cajuns will polish them off in 4 weeks.

[HoustonCajun]

I’d guess the tell was Tarleton State being courted by the MWC. The gnashing of teeth from CUSA filled the air.

It is totally ridiculous that the MWC would court Tarleton State, an FCS school, over New Mexico State. Time for UNM and UTEP to think about the conference and not about petty hatred.

[Jacob81]

Utep, nmst, and New Mexico all play each other every year.

If that were the case for La tech, Tulane, and UL we wouldn’t need to be in the same conference.

[jaxmc1023]

It is totally ridiculous that the MWC would court Tarleton State, an FCS school, over New Mexico State. Time for UNM and UTEP to think about the conference and not about petty hatred.

You guys are still using athletic success/performance as a reason these schools would get an invite to another conference. Tarleton State is an hour from Fort Worth, with population growing in that direction. New Mexico St is in a city smaller than Lafayette, surrounded by the desert.

Texas State might be the best buy-low candidate in the country based on where they are geographically and demographically. They have double our student pop and they're sitting in an insane TV market.

UL needs to focus its energy on giving people a reason to come to their games.. and that reason is NOT going to be "quality of competition in a pretty good G5 conference"

[VObserver]

You guys are still using athletic success/performance as a reason these schools would get an invite to another conference. Tarleton State is an hour from Fort Worth, with population growing in that direction. New Mexico St is in a city smaller than Lafayette, surrounded by the desert.

Texas State might be the best buy-low candidate in the country based on where they are geographically and demographically. They have double our student pop and they're sitting in an insane TV market.

UL needs to focus its energy on giving people a reason to come to their games and that reason is NOT going to be "quality of competition in a pretty good G5 conference"

Not quite correct. NMSU is in an MSA of 1.3 million people. [They are only 47 miles down I-10 from El Paso.] 47 miles in west Texas and New Mexico is practically next door.

[SlickRick]

Not quite correct. NMSU is in an MSA of 1.3 million people. [They are only 47 miles down I-10 from El Paso.] 47 miles in west Texas and New Mexico is practically next door.

I concur, having lived in Odessa for 2 years.

[Duckster]

Maybe TX St. just played the diminished MWC, while really preening for the PAC12 invite? Whatever the case, they earned a great deal of mostly positive media coverage for their dalliance. Now their name will continue popping up in the national conversation. Can't see any downside to their tossing their name in the hat activity.

Regardless, we need to pound them when we play later this season.