The PAC/MWC Dominoes Begin to Fall

[stingthemgood]

Ya’ll are on some drugs

 

[SDHornet]

CalNow agreement made any chance for CSU’s to keep top level football very difficult. Applaud those that did, but LB never could get a stadium, and Fullerton cut FB as their stadium opened, which isn’t really FBS ready, but is a good starting point. UCSB also had an acceptable stadium at the time, but again cut football in early 70’s, and then played in lower divisions during a brief revival as non scholarship.

In new NIL and revenue world, all Big West schools are effectively lower divisions. Most can’t afford the new scholarship limits.

This is an awful take that lets weak/poor admin off the hook for not having the balls to keep football. Sac State, and all the other CA publics that still have football, faced the same issues from the CalNow fallout. It all boils down to having admin with the balls to do what it takes to keep football. Any CA public that had/has a field with 5k+ capacity was/is capable of sponsoring a football program. CalNow was just used as an out by weak/pathetic admin to cut football, I'll never believe otherwise on this topic.

I'm not buying the scholarship limit comment either. With the House Agreement, there are no longer scholarship limits but roster limits. Programs that "opt-in" can maintain a roster size of 105 players; how many of those are put on scholarship are limited by 2 factors:

1. How many their respective conference will allow. My speculation is that this was part of our decision to leave the BSC as it doesn't sound like the BSC is budging from its FCS scholarship limit of 63. You can't maximize the advantage of opting in if you are still limited by the conference you are in.
2. How many scholarships leadership is willing to fund. There are Title IX implications here, but as with CalNow, this circles back to the wherewithal of the leadership and the effort they are willing to take to be on the leading edge of the changes related to the House Agreement. Note that all NCAA sponsored sports roster limits were also adjusted, so the Title IX balance will still need to be maintained in conjunction with football scholarships.

Interesting tidbit for the "opt outs" moving forward:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1951672863972335968