Sez Me: San Diego State needs to find a bigger, better league if it hopes to compete and thrive, especially in football
With its jalopy stalled in the dark Mountain West tunnel since 1999, San Diego State finally has managed to hire a mechanic who had a radical set of tools to fix it, and possibly get it the hell out of there.For once, the Aztecs are wanted. They may even get involved in a bidding war.
It was 20 years ago that then-athletic director Rick Bay, the man who hired Steve Fisher, told me he didn’t know how much longer the football program could remain with the big kids. That leaves the Far West’s only Power 5 conference without a Division I football presence in California south of Palo Alto. There are 24 million people living in Southern California, where college prospectors go to find prospects.
Good teams remain in the conference, but it is losing the No. 2 television market in America, and what does that mean? Simple. It not only loses its two greatest names, but, of course, money. There won’t be as much.There is a gamble here. If the Pac-12 disintegrates, schools such as Oregon, Washington and Stanford are going to become big-name mules chasing the carrot.
Still, if Athletic Director JD Wicker and university President Adela de la Torre are indeed shuffling toward the MW exit, and I believe they are, they’re not doing so blindfolded.And San Diego State sure as hell needs them. …says Oscar Robertson couldn’t play in today’s NBA. These guys couldn’t stop him with machetes. …
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