Theme is being forced on newly created blogs

https://wpmututorials.com/how-to/change-the-default-theme-for-sites-without-a-plugin/

Basically, something like this on your config file:
define('WP_DEFAULT_THEME', 'foobar');

where ‘foobar’ is replaced with the folder name of your theme.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/
This is the only free plugin I know of that allows you to set a default theme. Did you try it?

Couldn’t find anything like that in my wp-config.php but I “want” to use the plugin to carry over other plugin settings and Starting pages but its not working.

clipsit, put it IN your wp-config file, eh? ??

The blog default settings is a different thing than the default theme.

I “want” to use the plugin to carry over other plugin settings and Starting pages but its not working.

The plugin I suggested does not have anything in it to carry over plguin settings or extra pages.

You asked about a default theme – it does that.

Sorry about the confusion, I put too much emphasis on the symptom and not the problem. I want to create a default blog template for newly registering users. I have tried the wpmu dev “new blog template” as well as the free linked plugin above. Regardless of which I use every time a user creates a new site it does not apply the default theme, or pages that I wanted to carry over. If anyone has any help for this issue I would greatly appreciate it.

It works for me. Did you try the config file define mentioned above?

Is the new theme you want applied a child theme?