There’s no use speculating on anything until B10 and the SEC are done picking their teeth.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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The Big 12 is more stable for Arizona or Utah because they already know that the B1G, SEC, ACC don't want any of those schools. They all tried a year ago and got rejected. Ironic that it works this way, but the Big 12 is much more stable for this reason.
If you stay in the Pac-12 because it's about equal then you might get nuked when Washington and/or Oregon bail on you. For the B1G, for the SEC, maybe for the ACC, maybe even for a sweetheart uneven revenue sharing deal in the Big 12. It's riskier. Big 12 is a safer play to stay at the table.
Somebody in the Pac-12 right now is likely to get demoted out of the P5 (or P4 once that league collapses). If you take the Big 12 invite now you guarantee that it's not you. That's extremely attractive considering the only schools guaranteed to not get demoted are Oregon and UW. There are scenarios where any of the other 8 end up in the Mountain West.
That makes no sense. It would still be unstable. UW and Oregon have said they don’t want to sign a GOR. Chances are it will be for much less and shorter which keeps conference unstable. Big 12 teams are more aligned than ever before. It makes much more sense for them to add more like minded schools that don’t threaten the stability of the conference.
I would pay top dollar to watch ucla battle Rutgers. Heavyweights going at it? Count. Me. In.
I think there’s a .001% both Oregon and Washington are in Pac long term if Pac exists. If they are both in Pac long term it’s actually a bad sign that things went horribly wrong with our new comish and we’re basically in American Athletic.
Washington has a ton of travel no matter what unless the four PNW schools unite for life and add noise state.
If the number to join is $100MM, then what is it to stay? Eventually something is going to happen to the teams that don’t pull their own weight. OSU considered going independent, that says a lot.
Stop feeding Thinker. The dude is a nutjob and nothing he says makes any sense.
They are not equal right now. PAC 12 has over half their teams already in contact with other conferences.
Wait is Thinker a hawk troll? I avoid the rivalry board.
In my experience posters with names like voiceofreason, critical observer, thinker, etc are generally insufferable. I laugh just thinking about the moment when the username gets created.
The big 12 did the same last year right? And took on the top lower level schools and did not poach any major conference teams
I have no expectations of UW and Oregon of coming to the Big 12. I expect Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado to join Big 12 because they know that UW and Oregon will jump to the Big 10 tomorrow if they get the invite.
Well, by adding USC, now Iowa has another team besides OSU that they will never play.
After PAC 12 turned down Big 12 teams saying they weren’t expanding. Big 12 is not going to make the same mistake. (You need to add the word “Not very good” to the beginning of your username)
But it’s just too easy. His posts are so ridiculous, and I have nothing else to do today.
Yeah that is what I have said. Lol if those 2 leave then big 12 goes after the others. But the door may be open for Stanford and Cal to the big in the future. And the SEC could come for Arizona market
