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Message: [QUOTE="Rufus, post: 5085191, member: 7277"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/ut/2024/09/27/mountain-west-expresses-interest-in-toledo-as-football-only-member/stories/20240927129[/URL] Quotes from the article: The current Mountain West TV contract pays each school $5 million annually. That deal expires in 20 months, and a diminished Mountain West could garner significantly less. The MAC only distributes $800,000 as part of an agreement that runs through 2026-27. [B]Austin Karp, the managing editor of Sports Business Journal, projects that a new Mountain West TV contract would net “slightly more” than what the MAC is currently getting. “Who’s going to be left in the Mountain West?” Karp said. “Because the Pac-12 has that lawsuit against the Mountain West, and if they succeed, that might allow some of those schools out of having to pay something. So maybe UNLV and Air Force change their mind. Maybe the Mountain West just folds. I wouldn’t be confident putting my cards with the Mountain West right now.” UT’s travel costs would rise significantly in the Mountain West[/B], though time spent getting to and from Toledo would not. Bus trips to NIU and Buffalo are equivalent to West Coast flights. Athens, Oxford, and Mount Pleasant, Mich., by bus are no shorter than Las Vegas, Colorado Springs, and Laramie, Wyo., by plane. The MAC is the only FBS conference untouched by realignment. The last full-time member to leave the conference was Marshall in 2005. Massachusetts is joining next year. The conference is filled with like-minded universities located in a small geographic footprint with similar resources. Toledo joined the MAC in 1950 and has been one of the conference’s flagship programs, winning a total of 80 conference championships. Only Ohio (1946), Miami (1947), and Western Michigan (1947) have been in the league longer. [/QUOTE]

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