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And that'll just about kill the Pac 12.
Wonder what the Big Ten will do with the Rose Bowl Game now....
Wonder what the Big Ten will do with the Rose Bowl Game now....
It’s not really going to matter once you get into the extended playoff.And that'll just about kill the Pac 12.
Wonder what the Big Ten will do with the Rose Bowl Game now....
The concept only exists because there was an ‘SEC vs. the World’ mentality once upon a time until it became SEC vs. Big Ten.I will never understand fans feeling some type of loyalty to a particular conference. It's honestly one of the most cringeworthy things I see grown men doing in the professional sports world. I am a UCLA (mom went there, watched them growing up) and Georgia (bandwagon adopted in high school because I wanted a top football program to cheer for along with UCLA in basketball) and I could give a f*** less where either played. I actually prefer the Big Ten and their matchups for UCLA
Does the Big 12 want not committed members who were drug screaming and shouting from their old home? Part of the reason the Big 12 is surviving and now expanding is a unified set of presidents, ADs and a bright commissioner who they all back.With UW and UO leaving the PAC is dead. No reason for ASU and Utah not to jump now.
I’ve always been about Virginia Tech getting to the Big 12. That was before Texas and OU left though.Does the Big 12 want not committed members who were drug screaming and shouting from their old home? Part of the reason the Big 12 is surviving and now expanding is a unified set of presidents, ADs and a bright commissioner who they all back.
I don’t think this is quite a guarantee yet re: ASU and Utah. Don’t get me wrong - I think it is what will happen. But Yormark has stressed opening new markets and having a nationwide schedule. Which now neither of those schools will truly be. He’s probably also eyeing the second-tier ACC schools if that situation devolves like Pitt, Louisville, Va Tech, etc who can reinforce the eastern wing to pair with WVU, Cincy, etc.
Those two PAC schools lost a ton of leverage and put themselves in peril by not being proactive. The Big 12 doesn’t have to take them now. They should but they don’t have to.
Does the Big 12 want not committed members who were drug screaming and shouting from their old home? Part of the reason the Big 12 is surviving and now expanding is a unified set of presidents, ADs and a bright commissioner who they all back.
I don’t think this is quite a guarantee yet re: ASU and Utah. Don’t get me wrong - I think it is what will happen. But Yormark has stressed opening new markets and having a nationwide schedule. Which now neither of those schools will truly be. He’s probably also eyeing the second-tier ACC schools if that situation devolves like Pitt, Louisville, Va Tech, etc who can reinforce the eastern wing to pair with WVU, Cincy, etc.
Those two PAC schools lost a ton of leverage and put themselves in peril by not being proactive. The Big 12 doesn’t have to take them now. They should but they don’t have to.
I believed it. Pac 12 incompetence didn’t let it though.After Texas and Oklahoma left everyone thought the Big XII was dead now it appears that it may come out stronger minus those two.
The Big 12 could on the other hand be enticed by the idea of BYU-Utah being a conference game for the first time since 2010.The Arizona board of regents has the authority to require UA and ASU stay together in the same conference. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that's what happens as the PAC implodes.
This wouldn't be like requiring a conference to take a small school along with a state flagship school. Both ASU and UA are massive--they would rank #1 and #3 in enrollment among the Big 12. Statewide population for Arizona is #14, over twice the size of #30 Utah. I'm pretty certain ASU has the larger media market share over UA within Arizona as well. Having roughly 60% more alumni and being located in the main population center. The Tempe ASU campus is the 6th largest in the nation, trailing only Texas A&M, UCF, Rutgers, Florida and Ohio State.
Utah I could see the Big 12 passing on with BYU already there--a much smaller market--if there are more enticing options.
I'm skeptical the ACC to going to let schools go without keeping their Grant of Rights. I read through their league constitution and the only obvious way I see for the schools to pull it off is if they can get 8 of the 15 schools together to agreed to dissolve the conference. Are there enough schools willing to do that? And if they do there's a whole new can of legal worms that would be opened. Such as lawsuit and penalties for any contracts the conference has. And if the prospective 8 schools were negotiating with prospective media partners ahead of time that opens up the potential for tortuous interference with contracts suits as well.
They are the Air Force though. They have planes.
So I guess my question to this is why did Big 10 Network do so well, while PAC-12 Network flopped?
They can, just, if you're Tulane, why would you do it? Is it worth being in the Pac 12 when you could possibly wait your turn to get picked up by the Big 12 or ACC?
I will never understand fans feeling some type of loyalty to a particular conference. It's honestly one of the most cringeworthy things I see grown men doing in the professional sports world. I am a UCLA (mom went there, watched them growing up) and Georgia (bandwagon adopted in high school because I wanted a top football program to cheer for along with UCLA in basketball) and I could give a f*** less where either played. I actually prefer the Big Ten and their matchups for UCLA
People defended out of control coaching salaries, massive tv deals, pros style facilities for years now . Don’t get why fans are mad for a monster they created.(DEEP breath…)
It’s several things. Part nostalgia, part human tendency to hate change.
I grew up with Penn State just becoming a Big Ten team, with my freshman year coming in 1997. There were a couple schools we only played once at that point.
But I grew up with the Rose Bowl. Pac-10 and Big Ten. New Years Day. Every. Single. Year. I grew up with “Friends don’t let friends go to Pitt”.
The Pac-12 is all but dead now. It is inconceivable that this could happen to the self proclaimed “Conference of Champions”. As Penn Staters, we laughed when the Big East fell apart, because it was Pitt and Rutgers.
But to see so much history just die, all for the sake of TV money, just hurts. Kansas should be playing Missouri. Texas should be playing all the little brother schools. And Bedlam should still be played… And the Civil War… And the Apple Cup.
Part of what feeds college sports is passion. Passion for your school, and passionately hating your rival, whether it is in-state or a neighboring state.
That’s all gone away in the past decade plus. It’s not necessarily a love for the conference as a whole, but the sport as it used to be.
Thought that occurred to me is how long might the PAC hold together under the Apple TV deal?
After Texas and Oklahoma left everyone thought the Big XII was dead now it appears that it may come out stronger minus those two.
Yeah, they could but I see Tulane as one of the next moves for the Big 12 actually if they take Arizona State and need a 16th team. Or the ACC if some others split.I used to make that joke that they can join any conference because they can just fly INDIVIDUALLY a lot faster than commerical/charter. But no school has the ability for them to park 110 F-14s next to the stadium!
Two main reasons: #1 Carriage. Big Ten partnered with FOX, who bundled it into their deals/negotiations with cable providers. You want Fox News, you carry BTN.... in Big Ten territory you carry it on BASIC. So the Big Ten was pulling in huge subscriber fees every month from every cable customer in Big Ten states (and Rutgers/Maryland provided NYC and DC). The Big Ten had to SHARE those revenues with FOX, but FOX also provided a ton of the infrastructure needed to run a network.
Pac-12... went alone with no partner like FOX. They negotiated carriage themselves (had to hire a staff to do that), and they have no leverage outside Pac-12 cities. Plus they had bear the burden of all the expenses themselves, starting a national TV operation with uplinks and distribution by themselves.
And of course, they rented office space for the conference office and Pac-12 Network HQ in downtown San Francisco, which cost $696,000 PER MONTH in rent.
Tulane gets like $8m in the American. They can join any conference as long as they're good enough to be invited and the geography works in their favor of being Central Time Zone and just a fun place to visit.
Two weeks ago, if the Pac-12 had locked down a TV deal/expansion plan for SDSU/Fresno/SMU/Tulane in a Pac-14 at $25m per school (Colorado doesn't leave), Tulane jumps at that chance.
The more money you have, the more likely you are to be good. Being in the Pac-14 doesn't eliminate the option of joining the Big 12 or ACC in the future. GO BEAT ARIZONA in the Pac-14 and get invited! Stay and lose to UAB/Rice/Charlotte and no invite is coming.
(DEEP breath…)
It’s several things. Part nostalgia, part human tendency to hate change.
I grew up with Penn State just becoming a Big Ten team, with my freshman year coming in 1997. There were a couple schools we only played once at that point.
But I grew up with the Rose Bowl. Pac-10 and Big Ten. New Years Day. Every. Single. Year. I grew up with “Friends don’t let friends go to Pitt”.
The Pac-12 is all but dead now. It is inconceivable that this could happen to the self proclaimed “Conference of Champions”. As Penn Staters, we laughed when the Big East fell apart, because it was Pitt and Rutgers.
But to see so much history just die, all for the sake of TV money, just hurts. Kansas should be playing Missouri. Texas should be playing all the little brother schools. And Bedlam should still be played… And the Civil War… And the Apple Cup.
Part of what feeds college sports is passion. Passion for your school, and passionately hating your rival, whether it is in-state or a neighboring state.
That’s all gone away in the past decade plus. It’s not necessarily a love for the conference as a whole, but the sport as it used to be.
UConn will be the outlier add, guaranteed, if the PAC schools drag their feet and Yormark can convince the B12 presidents.Yeah, they could but I see Tulane as one of the next moves for the Big 12 actually if they take Arizona State and need a 16th team. Or the ACC if some others split.
People defended out of control coaching salaries, massive tv deals, pros style facilities for years now . Don’t get why fans are mad for a monster they created.
it will be interesting to see if the change on how tv is viewed causes $$ for college sports to start dropping at some point down the road and these big conferences start losing money cause they are too big.
Stop with the virtue signaling it’s always been a massive capitalist monster as way back even the 1890s. To many college football fans are living in complete fantasy land.(DEEP breath…)
It’s several things. Part nostalgia, part human tendency to hate change.
I grew up with Penn State just becoming a Big Ten team, with my freshman year coming in 1997. There were a couple schools we only played once at that point.
But I grew up with the Rose Bowl. Pac-10 and Big Ten. New Years Day. Every. Single. Year. I grew up with “Friends don’t let friends go to Pitt”.
The Pac-12 is all but dead now. It is inconceivable that this could happen to the self proclaimed “Conference of Champions”. As Penn Staters, we laughed when the Big East fell apart, because it was Pitt and Rutgers.
But to see so much history just die, all for the sake of TV money, just hurts. Kansas should be playing Missouri. Texas should be playing all the little brother schools. And Bedlam should still be played… And the Civil War… And the Apple Cup.
Part of what feeds college sports is passion. Passion for your school, and passionately hating your rival, whether it is in-state or a neighboring state.
That’s all gone away in the past decade plus. It’s not necessarily a love for the conference as a whole, but the sport as it used to be.
Stop with the virtue signaling it’s always been a massive capitalist monster as way back even the 1890s. To many college football fans are living in complete fantasy land.
UConn will be the outlier add, guaranteed, if the PAC schools drag their feet and Yormark can convince the B12 presidents.
Yormark is a northeast guy and he’s a basketball guy. He wants UConn, he wants KU-UConn-AZ-Baylor-Houston in basketball and he wants a flag in the Northeast.
The B12 presidents are not convinced about their fit if we are talking full membership and there is no chance of ESPN and Fox extending pro rata for a G5 school.
The other option is just have UConn and Gonzaga join as basketball only members.