SAN DIEGO — June gloom has cleared up across the region, but San Diego State’s conference future remains cloudy after an exchange of letters this week between the university and the Mountain West about its potential exit.
Multiple conference sources confirmed SDSU President Adela de la Torre sent a letter to Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez and all 11 other presidents on Tuesday indicating the university’s “intention” to leave in the 2024-25 academic year, presumably for the Pac-12 or Big 12, but exploring flexibility in their departure deadline and exit fees.
The conference replied that it interpreted the letter as notification of SDSU’s departure and initiated the separation procedure, which includes withholding the school’s roughly $6 million payout for 2022-23 due in early July and removing de la Torre from the conference’s board of directors.
