If there is $s in it, the legal profession will figure it out !
Fun fact about College GameDay only one school has ever turned them down …The California Golden Bears
Pretty much. You were in Conference USA purgatory. The BYU/TCU/Utah trio in the mid to late 2000's lifted the MWC up. There was even discussion of it supplanting the Big East as BCS conference had it stayed together. IIRC, the debate over the 9th MWC school in 2005 was between Boise State and TCU. Boise held the geographic edge but BYU was instrumental in getting TCU and into Texas. Would your program have ever risen up without BYU and Utah and the MWC competition at the time?
There were 8 schools involved in that move. The WAC was too large and uwieldy. Stretching from Houston (Rice) to Hawaii. BYU and Utah wanted to get into a conference and start playing old rivals again. No San Jose States, Tulsas, or Rice.
And he doesn't have power to even do that. There is no legal requirement for UCLA to obtain regent approval.
And who are your old rivals besides Utah, alcohol, and the devil?
I don't disagree with that. WAC should have taken only UNLV and TCU and stopped. Adding Rice, Tulsa, SMU, and SJSU was not wise.
Craig Thompson and Chris Del Conte pitched CBS that very thing, and they passed. They did this after the 2008 Season, when the MWC was indeed a Power Conference, with lowly Wyoming going into Tennessee and beating them, and Utah ripping Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.
Yeah, I don't see how in the world BYU can coexist with Baylor and all that lewd Dr. Pepper drinking.
What? A 16-team conference spanning four time zones was too large and unwieldy? Old rivalries were something to be cherished and preserved as opposed to playing teams never before on conference schedules? Hmm....seems as though the times and standards have a-changed since the 1990s....
I think the fashionable term is "situational ethics."
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