The presidents meet for several hours via video conference but don't release a statement about whether they resolved SDSU's status in the conference
The Board of Directors deliberated for several hours Monday afternoon to discuss SDSU’s status, the big question being whether to reinstate the Aztecs into a conference they insist they never left.“There is nothing publicly coming out of this meeting today,” was the lone comment from a Mountain West spokesperson Monday night.
Also unclear is the status of the $6.6 million distribution due SDSU for the 2022-23 academic year that the conference, claiming the university had given notice of departure, is withholding as the first installment of an exit fee estimated at $17 million. Potential penalties for reinstatement include a straight fine or reimbursement of legal fees from the letter fracas. That, however, could play into SDSU’s hands by dragging out a legal fight to buy even more time for a Pac-12 invite for 2024-25. In that scenario, SDSU would refuse to meet the reinstatement conditions and agree with the conference that it indeed gave timely notice of departure — and thus face the smaller exit fee.
SDSU has not hidden its desire to leave the Mountain West for the greener pastures of a power conference, which would pay four or five times more in annual distributions from media rights contracts and bowl revenue. At the Snapdragon Stadium celebration for the basketball team in April, de la Torre concluded her remarks by saying: “Who knows? In the near future we may be somewhere else.”
The Mountain West took de la Torre’s comments in Hawaii combined with her June 13 letter to mean the Aztecs were leaving and initiated separation procedures outlined in the conference bylaws. One was to remove de la Torre from the board. Another was to freeze SDSU’s 2022-23 distribution of $6,602,233.48 to defray the exit fee.
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