The PAC/MWC Dominoes Begin to Fall

[Super Hornet 2.0]

While, as all y'all know, I'm completely against this from the get-go, I'd be interested to hear their rationale for denying the petition given the weak FBS move-ups (and, no, I'm not talking about JMU, CCU, and Liberty in that classification; while I would still prefer to have them in FCS land, they HAVE proven their worth in FBS) in the last ten years. There's no way in heck that the likes of GA State and Jax State are better than the Hornets, either in terms of football performance or in terms of overall athletic and academic performance....

 

[SDHornet]

Need a serious response from the administration, NOW to control the narrative and to stop any potential exodus of recruits/portalers.

These folks are on the roster until the winter portal and those that excel on the field are likely going to bounce to a "better" program anyways. Until the portal rules change, it's going to be a rotating roster on an annual basis. I suppose some players can "redshirt" if they have it available but at the end of the day all these players are here to play for Coach Marion and we were going to be an FCS program in '25 regardless of how this all shakes out.

 

[SDHornet]

Brutal. Could be that the committee expects there to be a new governing body in place next week and they don't want to drop a decision on their desk that may not have any relevance because the process has changed.

Or the FBS schools hate us.

Yeah not sure how this will all work out now. I thought today's committee was an actual vote but it's just a recommendation to the D1 Council. Still bad news and I'd be surprised if the D1 Council goes in a different direction with the decision on our FBS waiver. It will be interesting to see how Dr. Wood responds, if it all goes sideways I hope he gets some lawfare going as I would think there are some anti-trust implications with this whole situation.

Here's an interesting post on the bigger picture. Given the pending D1 governance up for approval, our whole situation could be moot if there is some fluidity built into the reclassification of D1 football to accommodate the House Agreement fallout. I guess we won't have a definitive answer on our situation until the middle of next week.

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