Links below. Stupid BS lawsuit by ASU swimmer gets approved. Now the NCAA says schools can pay athletes directly. Oh and Penn State is going to spend $700 million to enhance its 106,000 capacity FB stadium.
OK Cougs, it's time to get real. Let's make sure you are all aware that WSU is not eligible to participate in the 12 team CFP playoff in 2024, because we will no longer be P5, and we are not in a G5 conference. While we are eligible to compete for the WCC title(s) in BB, we get -0- money from any NCCA tournament allocations even if we earn them (recall that women's BB might start getting their own allocation crumbs.)
The Pac-2 has to keep the conference alive to get the approx. $30M in FY 27-30 NCAA BB tournament allocations. If we bailed in FY25, we would lose year 2, and maybe(?) the $50M final Rose Bowl allocation. Or have to share with the traitors. I can't find an answer to that one.
WSU cannot compete with the P4 in NIL, paying players directly, or FB ticket revenues. I am sure that I am missing some things. To hold out and try to beg our way into the ACC or Big-12 is just a suicide mission on many fronts, including the above and the logistical costs involved.
So it is imperative that we recognize reality and engage the MW in the reverse merger to become the Pac-12/14. For FY 2026. F- year 2 of the WCC deal. F-the year 2 highway robbery of our shitty affiliation deal with the MW. F paying out our precious $250M (and being spent by the day) to lure any subset of MW or other teams to join the new Pac. Get us in our new league next year, start earning NCAA BB money again, and be positioned for whatever the top G5 team(s) may get in the next iteration of the CFP. And be a real league for upcoming FY 27 TV negotiations as the MW deal ends in FY 26. And finally, hope to keep some of our Bowl affiliations, logically the Holiday and/or LV, both of which are in MW cities.
This is so obvious, and so logical.
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OK Cougs, it's time to get real. Let's make sure you are all aware that WSU is not eligible to participate in the 12 team CFP playoff in 2024, because we will no longer be P5, and we are not in a G5 conference. While we are eligible to compete for the WCC title(s) in BB, we get -0- money from any NCCA tournament allocations even if we earn them (recall that women's BB might start getting their own allocation crumbs.)
The Pac-2 has to keep the conference alive to get the approx. $30M in FY 27-30 NCAA BB tournament allocations. If we bailed in FY25, we would lose year 2, and maybe(?) the $50M final Rose Bowl allocation. Or have to share with the traitors. I can't find an answer to that one.
WSU cannot compete with the P4 in NIL, paying players directly, or FB ticket revenues. I am sure that I am missing some things. To hold out and try to beg our way into the ACC or Big-12 is just a suicide mission on many fronts, including the above and the logistical costs involved.
So it is imperative that we recognize reality and engage the MW in the reverse merger to become the Pac-12/14. For FY 2026. F- year 2 of the WCC deal. F-the year 2 highway robbery of our shitty affiliation deal with the MW. F paying out our precious $250M (and being spent by the day) to lure any subset of MW or other teams to join the new Pac. Get us in our new league next year, start earning NCAA BB money again, and be positioned for whatever the top G5 team(s) may get in the next iteration of the CFP. And be a real league for upcoming FY 27 TV negotiations as the MW deal ends in FY 26. And finally, hope to keep some of our Bowl affiliations, logically the Holiday and/or LV, both of which are in MW cities.
This is so obvious, and so logical.
NCAA, Power 5 agree to let schools pay players
The NCAA and its leagues are moving forward with a multibillion-dollar settlement agreement that will allow schools to directly pay players for the first time in the history of college sports.
Sources: NCAA board votes to accept settlement
The NCAA's Board of Governors voted Wednesday evening to agree to settlement terms in the House v. NCAA and related antitrust cases, sources said.
PSU approves $700M Beaver Stadium renovation
Penn State's board of trustees approved a renovation to Beaver Stadium on Tuesday worth up to $700 million.
