For a while now, it’s felt like a matter of when, not if, SMU would eventually join the Pac-12. The same has been said in public discourse about San Diego...
, has a June 30 deadline to officially inform the Mountain West Conference it’s leaving if it wanted to play in another conference in 2024. Otherwise, the exit fee would double from $16.5 million to $33 million., asked for a month-long extension to that deadline in its withdrawal letter to the MWC, which the conference later told the MWC wasn’t its official notice of resignation.but ESPN reported
if the Pac-12 doesn’t have a new media rights deal by June 30 – which has been looked at as the first step before expansion – then San Diego State would explore all options. Besides, the Pac-12 isn’t the only conference looking to potentially expand.“As I said before, we do see the upside in basketball moving forward for all the right reasons. We think it’s undervalued and there’s a chance for us to double down as the No. 1 basketball conference in America.
“We have a plan, and as I said all along we have an appetite to be a national conference in our makeup from coast to coast.”There’s still a lot to figure out, but perhaps San Diego State’s unofficial resignation notice has provided some semblance of a timeline for the next realignment domino, which ultimately would affect SMU.
When SMU might receive an invite from the Pac-12, or any Power Five conference, has been an elusive concept. Let’s go through the timeline: In about two weeks, the college football world will celebrate the first anniversary of USC and UCLA’s bombshell – and leak-proof – move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten. That once again reignited realignment conversation.That optimism increased when Pac-12 Commissioner George
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