the Athletic did this Group Text discussion feature for the 5 P5 conferences and the independents. Today I am seeing previews of the G5 conferences (first AAC then CUSA, others still to come) being done by their G5 reporter without the big 3 writers participating.
So although Stewart Mandel says he thinks BYU should go back to the MWC, at least he talked about BYU in his preview.
Stewart Mandel and the big 3 were too busy with other things than to be bothered with predicting the G5 conferences including the MWC and even including the AAC.