The surprise and disappointment was less that schools left — it happens all the time these days in college sports — but that they did so secretively
“Doing what we all do too much and checking Twitter,” Pitino said. “I saw it and remember telling my wife, ‘This is not good.’ She was like, ‘Oh, go to bed, you’re worried about nonsense.’ I got up and didn’t sleep a lot.”
It was a common sentiment Thursday at the Mountain West’s annual basketball media day in Las Vegas, the first public gathering since five members of the 12-team conference announced the move to the Pac-12. , without first offering the Mountain West a chance to counter. “Certainly, I would have liked that opportunity,” Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez said Thursday in a candid conversation about the abrupt departures by SDSU, Boise State, Colorado State and Fresno State. “But I’ve always said schools have to do what’s best for their school, and if they felt this was the best thing for them, go get it. They truly felt this wasn’t the best thing for them, otherwise they would have come back to us.
A meeting was scheduled with conference membership in late September to discuss the proposals and begin the process to embed them in their bylaws.On Sept. 1, the deadline passed to extend the football scheduling agreement for 2025 between the Mountain West and Pac-12 remnants Oregon State and Washington State.
“Will it be as good as what the Mountain West even was? I don’t know. When I say I don’t know, it’s not that I don’t think so but it’s not obvious to me.” Gonzaga is expected to make double or even triple what it did from the WCC, where its revenues were largely contingent on how it performed in the NCAA Tournament.
Some expect the Pac-12 to make another run at AAC schools with a more lucrative financial package. The question becomes whether it’s worth subjecting athletes to regular cross-country travel to a league concentrated exclusively in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.
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