The WAC's next move is....

CannonCougar85 wrote:
You're leaving out how BYU would fit into the ESPN deal. BYU is a great replacement for BSU on ESPN.

But that money is going to BYU, not the WAC. Invitees wouldn't benefit from BYU Football at all.

bplewe wrote:

You're leaving out how BYU would fit into the ESPN deal. BYU is a great replacement for BSU on ESPN.

But that money is going to BYU, not the WAC. Invitees wouldn't benefit from BYU Football at all.

The deal is that BYU would play WAC teams. So yes some of that money does go to the WAC. But there has to be a WAC in the first place and to accomplish that and I am guessing that ESPN is willing to pony more money to save it.

ESPN needs to call a conference meeting for the WAC, MWC, Conf USA and a few other teams. Then negotiate to form some new conferences. The one will become a football conference, one will be a basketball conference and I don't about the rest maybe just another Sun-belt like conference. Create some interest during the two seasons and solve the realignment problems.

ESPN isn't going to overtly dictate to entire conferences how they do business. That doesn't mean they don't affect how they do business, who they schedule etc. But ESPN cannot go to a group of school presidents and create conference realignment. Thats'a very very slippery slope and one that would likely be considered tampering and a conflict of interest.



That would be like the oil companies telling the auto companies that they can only build Hummers.