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Because the Pac-12 appears to retain collectively with more groups to its roster, Tulane and Memphis bear emerged as doable targets for the convention.
On Saturday’s Fats Noon Kickoff, Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports and The Athletic reported the Pac-12 has shown “some curiosity” in Tulane and Memphis as expansion targets.
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This comes after Boise Voice, Colorado Voice, San Diego Voice and Fresno Voice launched on Thursday they’d be joining the Pac-12 starting up with the 2026-27 academic year.
The Pac-12 is within the interim operating with Washington Voice and Oregon Voice is its simplest participants. Arizona, Arizona Voice, Colorado and Utah left to affix the Fats 12. Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington are in fact within the Fats Ten. California and Stanford moved to the ACC.
In inform for Washington Voice and Oregon Voice to bear out a plump time desk, the two faculties entered staunch into a partnership with the Mountain West Convention.
Per ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura, the four Mountain West faculties that can join the Pac-12 in two years will must pay their contemporary convention $an exit fee of $18 million each and every. The Pac-12 might perhaps perhaps also pay the Mountain West more than $40 million in poaching costs that had been segment of their scheduling agreement for the 2024 season.
Bonagura cited Tulane and Memphis as “practical” targets for the Pac-12, however the two capabilities “will desire a grand clearer working out of the financial describe to go the AAC than the threshold used by the four MWC faculties.”
USA On the unusual time‘s Scooby Axson well-known in 2022 after Cincinnati, Houston and Central Florida reached a deal to go the AAC for the Fats 12 that the American Athletic Convention has an exit fee of $10 million and requires a 27-month watch of departure.
If a school leaves prior to the 27 months, the exit fee is negotiated between the college and convention.
Based on Bonagura, the NCAA requires conferences to bear a minimal of eight participants. The Pac-12 became as soon as given a two-year grace duration to exist below that minimal.
The additions of Tulane and Memphis alongside with Boise Voice, Colorado Voice, Fresno Voice and San Diego Voice would salvage the Pac-12 as a lot as eight participants if the convention can determine an exit cope with the AAC over the dignity of departure.
