* Transition period from FCS schools making the jump to FBS. “We’re going to focus on trying to identify current FBS members … and had discussions with other FBS schools that are within the WAC footprint.”
Translation: "We'll take anybody."
* On the remaining members: “I believe strongly that the six schools that are left are in better shape than Boise State was when it joined the WAC in 2001.”
I sure hope they are, that was almost 10 years ago.
* On apparent predatory relationship between WAC and MWC: “Craig (Thompson) has a job to do, and I have a job to do … I don’t look at it as necessarily predatory. In today’s intercollegiate environment, it has become fairly routine.”
Translation: "I'm a dumb ass and I fell asleep at the switch AGAIN. Good think the remaining school presidents aren't holding my feet to the fire, otherwise I would be looking for a new job."
* On the departure penalty: “I wish at this time that I would have made it $20 million.”
Translation: "God I'm a fvcking idiot."
* On current ESPN contract: “It’s subject to renegotiation. At some point, once the dust settles … we’ll sit down with ESPN and determine what the terms of the contract will be.”
Translation: "The WAC's TV contract is fvcked."
* Had a conference call this morning with remaining six members and believes there is support to move forward. But schools will ultimately act “in their best interest.”
Translation: "They have no faith in me, and to be honest, why should they?"
* Had a conference call this morning with remaining six members and believes there is support to move forward. But schools will ultimately act “in their best interest.”
Translation: "I started this whole fiasco by secretly inviting BYU to the WAC as a non-football member. I'm reaping what I sowed."
* Was the binding agreement actually signed? “There are seven signed agreements in a file in the WAC office.” (Nevada is the exception.) Remaining six schools are not bound by it.
Translation: Fresno will have to pay but good luck holding Nevada to the "verbal agreement" they made.
* Asked (by me) about the possibility of expanding to 12 teams and splitting into eastern and western divisions: “That’s fair, assuming that we get into the central time zone more and that, if we have the right schools and the right numbers, that it would balance the east and west. That’s something we’ve considered in the past” (and, he said, would consider in the future).
Translation: "We are going to invite everyone and anyone to the WAC in hopes that enough mud will stick to the wall to keep the WAC viable."
