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Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel, senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde discuss what’s next for the conference after its latest try at adding schools failed. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Mountain West does have seven members, seven football playing members.
They have six full members.
So they actually need, they need two to,, get, get, you have to have, you have to have eight, the partial members.
They’re, they’re just partial member.
Yeah.
So, so they still need, so they need two.
The PAC 12 needs one.
so together.
Yeah, they have 14 football playing members and 13 full members.
Huh?
Hm.
Seems like merge.
Wait a second here.
Now, if they merged that would be a 14 team league.
Dan.
That, what an idea.
Do you think they’d merge?
You think they’re merging?
No, I don’t think they’d merge one.
Just sued the other.
Um, I have a feeling that’s not gonna happen.
Yeah, that, that, that ship seems to have sailed.
I mean, you never know.
Right.
They’re in a, maybe in a little bit of a bind but II, I would be, I would be really, really surprised uh, if that, if that happened, uh, there seems to be a bad blood you might say.
Um, and how things went down, especially with the scheduling alliance between the two and now the lawsuit over the penalties and the poaching and the keeping.
And, uh, it’s, it’s, um, it’s been quite interesting to watch but now we move on and, uh, the mountain West needs two.
The PAC 12 needs one at the very least.
Uh, and so we’ll see, I don’t know.
We’ll see what other poaching is, is go, gonna happen.
Um, here shortly.
Yeah.
Now we’re, we’re down to the remainder.
Ben and, and, and Dan Wessels up.
miners.
Let’s go, let’s go.
Miners.
Well, this is where we are.
I’ll tell you where we are today.
I mean, it’s four pm or five pm in the east right now on Thursday.
So, um but earlier today, Hawaii in the PAC 12 uh entered membership expansion discussions.
Um Now the, I don’t think the PAC 12 made an offer, right?
And in Hawaii did sign on with the Mountain West, um just now like minutes ago as we’re taping this, but that’s where we are and that’s not slight certainly to Hawaii.
Uh But one of the big reasons that the schools that left the Mountain West left is to leave the bottom of half of the league behind.
And arguably the, the lowest resource of those and the hardest to get to is Hawaii.
And so the fact that the PAC 12 was even entertaining uh discussion with the Hawaii tells you kind of where they are in the position that they’re in after.
Uh obviously, things didn’t go well with the four American schools and then a couple in the Mountain West.
So they’re down, you know, to their seventh or eighth potential option.
Right.
What was the fourth American school?
Utututs A, right.
So you got Memphis Southern South Florida, two lanes, UTS A UN LV.
Uh, and then Air Force was, I don’t think, ever gonna go, but it had Air Force shown interest.
They probably would have knocked on the door.
I think they showed Air Force the presentation.
I, I know that.
So you’re looking at, they’re on like their 7th, 8th, different option right now.
Yeah, they, with the PAC 12 aired by not having it all completely locked up.
And that’s hard to do in these expansion things.
But you, you have to, it has to be like in the Godfather when Michael Corleone is sitting in church and everybody’s out whacking the other crime families, you know, like it’s gotta be over before anybody else even knows it’s happening.