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Agreed! No more Dan cash. It all goes into the MBB kitty.
What is your suggested death march? Go to Chapel Hill and Durham, and swing by Ann Arbor and East Lansing on the way back to California, in say mid-November/early December (scheduled around finals, of course)? Perhaps drop by Norman for one more thumping on the way home?
What do you think that will earn them? A cool million? 
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Bring on more body bag games with all the money going to athletics. Previous Message
Agree 100%. With the LB budget, the school can't afford to have all those far flung members. Previous Message
Nope to all of these schools. The last thing we need right now is making more trips out of State for the conference games. Stay with 11 for the time being and see what happens down the road. Previous Message
The Big West has evolved with Davis,Hawaii, and UCSD now leaving.
I've always thought adding schools that are solidly behind atletics is a good idea for long term viability, and that solely being in California with callups from D2 was not a long term solution, or at least not if schools were allowed to not fully fund athletics.
I know money is an issue and NIL changed everything, but from a membership stand point, curious where everyone stands opinion wise?
A few thoughts on some of the names being thrown around:
-Denver: culturally more like west coast than their Summit brethren, travel partner for Utah Valley. Rumors WCC is going after them hard.
-UTA: Huge metro area/uni, much like LB way down the totem pole in the market, less history. I think they would definitely accept, but not super excited. Easy travel.
-Oral Roberts- With UTA as option, thought I'd include them as they had a pedigree in basketball, were flagship of the Summit. Rough few years though.
-Portland State: logistically makes sense, football can't last there. But when they get rid of football, will they do anything with other sports? Worst all around program in the Big Sky (Sac State last few years was right above them since 2020, but had been avg before that)
-UTA&M-Corpus Cristi- not much going on here
-UNewOrleans- Nice market/uni, terrible athletics
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