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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5170835, member: 833"] Every person has to play the hand they are dealt in life. The PAC 2 teams had a pile of exit fees, and the MWC was clearly the 5th best football conference and 6th best basketball conference, with similar schools in size and geography, and very little competition from anyone in their geographic footprint. The conference had fun rivalries that fans cared about, and it was the only conference remaining west of the Great Plains. The logical move would be to combine, try to get a better streaming deal in the next few years, and establish a hammer lock on the G5 CFP bid. Instead, they started a pissing match with each their conference partners, blew the PAC 12 exit fees to pay the worst schools of the group fines that were created from a contract that the PAC 2 had signed a year earlier, and now there are two runt leagues that are not meaningfully better at football or basketball than the other mid majors. [/QUOTE]