MW Commish responds to P 12 lawsuit

The Big West was pulled apart by the WAC, though.  And that was partly because the WAC was pulled apart by Conference USA and Mountain West.  But the Mountain West has only ever added teams from Conference USA and the WAC.

The death knell of the Big West as a football conference was the WAC offering Nevada and then Boise in consecutive years.  The Mountain West and Conference USA had basically forced the WAC to do so first by the Mountain West splitting off (the WAC offered Nevada to get to nine conference teams) and then by Conference USA offering TCU (Boise replaced TCU in the WAC).  The Mountain West later added TCU to get to nine teams in 2005.

The Pac-12 added Utah in 2011, and the Mountain West replaced them with Boise.

In 2012, SEC offered Missouri and Texas A&M, and the Big-12 replaced one of them with TCU.  (The other was replaced by West Virginia, which was the first domino to fall to help end the Big East as a football conference.)

In response to losing TCU and BYU going independent and Boise and San Diego State threatening to join the Big East, the Mountain West added Fresno, Hawai'i, and Nevada.  After things calmed down, the Mountain West added San Jose State and Utah State to get to 12 teams to be able to hold a lucrative conference championship game.

Losing San Jose State and Utah State were the first two dominos to fall in the WAC losing its ability to be an FBS Conference.  Louisiana Tech and UTSA went to Conference USA.  And Texas State and Arlington went to the Sun Belt, leaving only Idaho and New Mexico State.  Idaho announced that it was going to slink back to the FCS.  The WAC stopped sponsoring football for several years before becoming an FCS Conference.  New Mexico State was an FBS Independent for a year before joining the Sun Belt.

In geopolitics, we feel sorry for certain people for getting conquered by other people, but those "original" people were only there, because they previously conquered someone else.

One need only look at the history of Jerusalem:

Canaanite-->Egyptian Empire-->Canaanite/Jebusite-->Kingdom of Israel-->Judah-->Assyria-->Babylon-->26th Egyptian Dynasty-->Babylon-->Persia-->Macedonia-->Ptolemaic Egypt-->Seleucid Empire-->Hasmoneans (Kingdom of Israel)-->Herod the Great (Roman Client-King)-->Rome-->Jewish Revolt-->Roman Colony-->Byzantine Colony-->Sassanid Persia-->Byzantine Colony-->Rashidun Caliphate--> Umayyad Caliphate-->Abbasid Caliphate-->Tulunid Dynasty-->Abbasid Caliphate-->Ikhshidid Dynasty-->Fatimid Caliphate-->Seljuk Empire-->Fatimid Caliphate-->Kingdom of Jerusalem (Crusaders)-->Ayyubid Sultanate-->Kingdom of Jerusalem (Crusaders)-->Ayyubid Sultanate-->Mongol Empire-->Mamluk Sultanate-->Ottoman Empire-->United Kingdom-->Israel/Jordan-->Israel

Everyone's an a$$hole, because they out-a$$holed the earlier a$$hole.

Football conference politics is basically the same as global geopolitics on a smaller and less violent scale.

We have to out-a$$hole the earlier a$$holes.

As Ray Zalinsky would say:


Or as Ray Kroc would say: