The hunted turns into the hunter.
The Pac-12 Convention, whose ranks had been depleted when most of its members bolted for extra money from the Huge Ten, Huge 12 and Atlantic Coast Conferences a 12 months in the past, on Thursday sought to breathe new life into the league by, in flip, snagging 4 members from the Mountain West Convention.
Solely Oregon State and Washington State College remained within the Pac-12 after final summer season’s defections, main many to take a position that the West Coast league would now not be viable as a freestanding convention—and will surely now not qualify as one of many autonomous Energy 5 leagues. Many anticipated the 2 universities to attempt to discover a new dwelling in one of many remaining 4 main faculty soccer leagues, however the choice to attempt to rebuild the Pac-12 means that they failed in that quest.
As a substitute, they introduced Thursday that the convention would add Boise State, Colorado State and San Diego State Universities and California State College, Fresno, from the Mountain West, starting in 2026. That places the Pac-12 membership at six, two wanting what the league would wish to requalify for NCAA membership after a two-year grace interval ends.
“The collective six universities will collaboratively chart extra membership and different future convention concerns,” the Pac-12 stated in a press release.
This set of strikes will virtually actually spur different extra rounds of money-driven convention reshuffling because the Pac-12 continues to broaden and the Mountain West seeks to replenish its ranks.
