Sac State to the MAC

[CajunPoke]

Apparently GLoria and teh MWC were not interested. Does this bring US Davis more into the MWC likelihood?

 

[Bear Claw]

Apparently GLoria and teh MWC were not interested. Does this bring US Davis more into the MWC likelihood?

I thought UC Davis was already in?

 

[LawPoke]

UC Davis is in for basketball only.

All of this makes me wonder - why only football or only basketball? I really don't understand why you would split your sports. But I don't understand a lot of what goes on these days.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

UC Davis is in for basketball only.

All of this makes me wonder - why only football or only basketball? I really don't understand why you would split your sports. But I don't understand a lot of what goes on these days.

This is not accurate. UC- Davis is joining the MWC for all sports offered by the conference that they sponsor other than football. In addition, a provision of their agreement to join the conference gives them preference for football should they choose to move to FBS.

But football/basketball only conferences and affiliations make 100% perfect sense. Football is far fewer road trips than other sports and flights and hotels can be justified by potential media revenues that a more national conference might be able to bring in. It would be dumb to fly the swim team consistently to locations like DeKalb Illinois or Fargo North Dakota if you can save big money by bussing them to locations like Greeley. There is little reason for most sports to travel far and incur increased costs when those sports don’t draw much attention or media dollars.

 

[tnkl_42]

As a guy who was at a MAC school, we didn't want them, 1.5 mil per school was just too good to turn down. This is likely just an attempt to keep finances stable for the full members especially since I would say half the MAC would explore an FCS move, and others are flailing as institutions (aka Toledo). Sac will be gone in 5, if they even make it to the 5th year of that deal, and then I imagine the MAC will push for someone like WKU or Youngstown State. Potentially Illinois State to get back into that state.

But football/basketball only conferences and affiliations make 100% perfect sense. Football is far fewer road trips than other sports and flights and hotels can be justified by potential media revenues that a more national conference might be able to bring in. It would be dumb to fly the swim team consistently to locations like DeKalb Illinois or Fargo North Dakota if you can save big money by bussing them to locations like Greeley.

I also wholeheartedly agree with this, I can't imagine we're more than 10 years from college football looking like college hockey. Sure, we may have 1 or 2 all sports conferences who still sponsor football, but I think most will end up being football specific super conferences as the rest of the athletic department goes back to largely regional conferences. I can't imagine Delaware making annual baseball and volleyball trips to Las Cruces is sustainable