Studies: SDSU Positioning to Depart Mountain West Amid Pac-12 Rumors

San Diego State College could possibly be exiting the Mountain West Convention, in line with numerous reviews, however officers remained cagey Friday a few attainable convention change.

ESPN and different shops reported that SDSU President Adela de la Torre despatched a letter Tuesday stating the college’s intent to withdraw from the Mountain West Convention. The Aztecs have performed within the MWC since 1999 as one in every of its founding member establishments.

On Friday, John David Wicker, SDSU’s athletic director, would solely affirm the college was holding its choices open.

“As there was a considerable amount of dialogue about convention realignment nationally, we proceed to do our due diligence to establish one of the best alternative and match within the curiosity of each our college and our student-athletes,” he informed Metropolis Information Service.

In response to reviews, response to de la Torre’s letter precipitated her to notice that it wasn’t an official letter of resignation from the convention.

It’s unclear the place SDSU would land had been it to depart the MWC, however the Energy 5 Pac-12 convention appears the most definitely match, significantly given the lack of that convention’s pure recruitment floor in Southern California with the exodus of UCLA and USC to the Massive Ten convention.

There was no formal invitation to any Energy 5 convention as of Friday.

SDSU has requested a “one-month extension” from the Mountain West to delay its deadline “given unexpected delays involving different collegiate athletic conferences past our management,” CBS Sports activities reported.

San Diego State would want to offer a 12 months of discover to withdraw subsequent June. If it waits previous June 30, the exit payment it could owe jumps from practically $16.5 million to almost $34 million, ESPN reported.

Makes an attempt to achieve de la Torre’s workplace and the college’s risk-assessment workplace for a duplicate of the letter in query went unanswered.

SDSU reached the NCAA event title recreation in males’s basketball this 12 months and the soccer program has a brand new $300 million stadium.