American and Mountain West should merge.

[Confident Carl]

I say no to all of this. A league with no money cannot, under any circumstances, spread to the mountain and pacific time zones. It would be a disaster. MWC teams would never do football only, which means the Olympic sports would (a) suck big time, even worse than now and (b) cost even more money to run. It would kill the AD at every AAC school. It would wreck the ratings for any AAC game played in those time zones. You think playing basketball against Tulane at 8:00 PM is bad, try games against SDSU at 10:00 PM. No.

HH - This idea would be floated by the TV execs by Aresco before any kind of implementation. You are correct, even if it flies, there would be problems with Olympic sports, scheduling, travel, etc. Some of the OLympic teams already play in different leagues anyway so those things can be worked out.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I don't see the advantage in merging.
Why would we hand access to huge markets to mostly a small market conference
I think that conference is ripe for a raid . Air Force ( to appease Navy), Colo State ( partner) possibly New Mexico ( flagship +okay BB) ) and always BYU

 

[Marty Jackson]

I say no to all of this. A league with no money cannot, under any circumstances, spread to the mountain and pacific time zones. It would be a disaster. MWC teams would never do football only, which means the Olympic sports would (a) suck big time, even worse than now and (b) cost even more money to run. It would kill the AD at every AAC school. It would wreck the ratings for any AAC game played in those time zones. You think playing basketball against Tulane at 8:00 PM is bad, try games against SDSU at 10:00 PM. No.

why can't you create two divisions of 8. for football, you play the 7 in your division and rotate two from the other division.
Two champions play for the NY6 bowl. If the playoffs expand to 8, I think case could be made for the 4 P4 champions, 1 G5 (most likely this group), and 3 at large.