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Message: [QUOTE="Kolumbo, post: 5086345, member: 4613"] If CR had't been constantly churning for the past decade, what is playing out between the PAC 12 and MWC would seem way too bizarre to be real. We can wait to see what the new PAC will get for a media deal to see how the gambit plays out. "Never has [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/TXSTSM/texas-state-bobcats/']Texas State[/URL] been more valuable. Or [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/TOLEDO/toledo-rockets/']Toledo[/URL]. Or [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/UTEP/utep-miners/']UTEP[/URL]. Or [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/NDST/north-dakota-state-bison/']North Dakota State[/URL] for that matter. "Who knows as conference realignment rounds the latest crazy turn and heads toward an absurd homestretch. Last week, the American Athletic Conference stood strong. Earlier this month, the Pac-12 raided the Mountain West ... or was it the other way around? "Either way, the Pac-Whatever and the Mountain West continue to be conferences in name only. [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/UTAHST/utah-state-aggies/']Utah State[/URL] joined [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/SDGST/san-diego-state-aztecs/']San Diego State[/URL], [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/FRESNO/fresno-state-bulldogs/']Fresno State[/URL], [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/COLOST/colorado-state-rams/']Colorado State[/URL] and [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/BOISE/boise-state-broncos/']Boise State[/URL] in jumping from the MWC to the Pac-12; Air Force, [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/SJST/san-jose-state-spartans/']San Jose State[/URL] and [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/UNLV/unlv-rebels/']UNLV[/URL] opted to stay with the Mountain West. For a moment, UNLV -- 104th in total FBS football viewership since 2016 -- was desired by all of those three conferences. [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/matthew-sluka-deserts-unlv-unfulfilled-nil-promise-drives-starting-qb-of-undefeated-cfp-hopeful-to-quit/']Just not by its starting quarterback[/URL]. "Meanwhile, the MWC, using exit fees the Pac-12 paid to snatch its five members, then turned around and used that cash to incentivize the current six full-time members to stay. Things got so heated that UNLV went from being coveted by the Pac-12 to being [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/pac-12-sues-mountain-west-over-poaching-penalty-as-conferences-battle-during-latest-round-of-realignment/']sued by the Pac-12[/URL] in the span of a week." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/conference-realignments-frenetic-pace-reaffirms-pac-12-mountain-west-should-have-merged-all-along/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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