Welcome to the Automable presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always

by Bruce Feldman. Bruce, we are having our colleague on today, Chris Vanini, our colleague

from the Athletic to discuss. Chris covers everything. So we can talk, we're going to talk

to him about San Diego State and this bizarre situation about their possible divorce

from the Mount West. Chris knows all things group of five. You and I have been interested

for a little while in Poise State, whether that program is slipping in Chris, and this might

be the most important thing for our audience, has been covering every step of the way of

the EA sports, the return of NCAA football and there's been some headlines about that recently,

so we get into that with him as well. So let's get to our interview. We are joined by

our colleague at the Athletic Chris Vanini to discuss quite a few things. Chris covers

all college football, not just group of five, but we still think of him sometimes as the

group of five guru, and there's an interesting story in the news right now, Chris. San Diego

State, have they been kicked out of the Mount West? Are they in an open relationship with

the Mount West and the Pac-12? What's going on here?

Well, they may have accidentally gotten themselves into a position where they are kind of kicked

out of their own doing. They're not actually kicked out. You need like three quarters of

a vote for that to happen. What happened last week is the school sent a letter to the

Mount West and all 11 school presidents to say, hey, we intend to resign from the league.

Can we talk about this exit fee deadline of June 30th? Can we extend that? Can we lower

the bio? Could we pay it over a longer period of time? Can we talk about that? The Mount

West, because it was sent to all of the schools, took that as, oh, you're leaving. Okay, so

we're going to start the process now of you leaving. That means your president's off the

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