8/18/2023 0 Comments Mountainwest conference![]() Adela de la Torre (center left) cheers on SDSU men’s basketball at the Final Four. ![]() ![]() The best political decisions reflect positively on the people who make them, regardless of the outcome. As profit is the aim of business decisions and progress is the result of technical decisions, the most important consideration in political decisions is optics. In decoding the signs, it is important to remember the decision-makers in the MW and at SDSU are making political decisions. What, then, should we make of these developments? “As there has been a large amount of discussion about conference realignment nationally, we continue to do our due diligence to identify the best opportunity and fit in the interest of both our university and our student-athletes,” SDSU Athletic Director JD Wicker told EVT in a statement when asked about the letter.ĭid the entity that in the last five years won the ballot initiative over Soccer City, secured the funding for and built a world-class stadium on time and on budget while a global pandemic raged, attracted professional rugby, women’s soccer, Monster Jam, and will soon have Major League Soccer as a tenant, suddenly forget how to negotiate? Not likely. This suggestion was not accepted by the MW, who is still treating the Aztecs as if they are exiting. The MW interpreted the move as a notice of SDSU’s withdrawals, provoking the Jewel of the California State University System to quickly reply that they were simply asking for the extension, nothing more. ![]() Thamel reported on a letter from SDSU president Adela de la Torre to her Mountain West counterparts asking for a month extension on the June 30th deadline to trigger a doubling of the exit fee the university must pay for leaving the conference. Just over a week ago, ESPN’s Pete Thamel added the latest twist and turn in the ongoing saga of SDSU’s conference realignment. SDSU’s fans erupted after Lamont Butler’s buzzer-beater against FAU. ![]()
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