More Pac-12 Turmoil

[Gorm]

Anyone want to buy a conference?

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/o...loring-taking-on-private-equity-partners.html

Embarrassing.

 

[CyCrazy]

Anyone want to buy a conference?

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/o...loring-taking-on-private-equity-partners.html

Embarrassing.

Well that is something,

 

[JP4CY]

Anyone want to buy a conference?

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/o...loring-taking-on-private-equity-partners.html

Embarrassing.

Holy crap what an awful idea.

 

[Clonehomer]

Anyone want to buy a conference?

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/o...loring-taking-on-private-equity-partners.html

Embarrassing.

They're doing this all wrong. Need to go the SEC route and become private equity partners with the recruits, not the conference.

 

[Die4Cy]

They have botched things so badly out there. It's hard to believe when you consider some of the strongest brands in college sports and best run athletics departments are out there.

In the current Learfield Cup standings, the Pac 12 has 5 of the top 16 schools. The Big 12's first school is at #21.

Oh, and look who's tied for last place for fall sports among athletics departments in Division 1!

https://nacda.com/documents/2018/12/18/Dec20DIOverall.pdf

 

[KnappShack]

They have botched things so badly out there. It's hard to believe when you consider some of the strongest brands in college sports and best run athletics departments are out there.

In the current Learfield Cup standings, the Pac 12 has 5 of the top 16 schools. The Big 12's first school is at #21.

Oh, and look who's tied for last place for fall sports among athletics departments in Division 1!

https://nacda.com/documents/2018/12/18/Dec20DIOverall.pdf

I'm not falling for your clickbait

 

[Gorm]

Keeping coming...

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports..._kwEeLB6yTLJTnv5THLo2R_r9NtAXVuwHrWa7pt6T4TE0

 

[2speedy1]

Keeping coming...

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports..._kwEeLB6yTLJTnv5THLo2R_r9NtAXVuwHrWa7pt6T4TE0

OOOOFFF, Yet everyone keeps saying they are the most stable conference and the Big 12 will break up and half will end up in the PAC when all is said and done.

I swear some people have no Idea how money affects the stability of a conference more than anything.

 

[HFCS]

That Arizona to West Virginia trip would be brutal

North/South no more...

Big 12 Central Division:
WVU
ISU
KU
KSU
OU
OSU

Big 12 Southwest Division:
Texas
TCU
Houston
Texas Tech
Arizona State
Arizona

Kick the Murder Rapists out of our conference division:
Baylor

*Actually if Zona/ASU were known to be in the fold would New Mexico make more sense than Houston?

 

[CloneGuy8]

Selfishly it would be awesome if we could absorb the whole Pac 12. Road trips to LA and Seattle would be awesome, though that probably won't happen.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Selfishly it would be awesome if we could absorb the whole Pac 12. Road trips to LA and Seattle would be awesome, though that probably won't happen.

That sounds like a bad financial decision for the Big 12.

 

[CloneGuy8]

That sounds like a bad financial decision for the Big 12.

Probably. I just want an excuse to go to California

 

[HFCS]

They have botched things so badly out there. It's hard to believe when you consider some of the strongest brands in college sports and best run athletics departments are out there.

In the current Learfield Cup standings, the Pac 12 has 5 of the top 16 schools. The Big 12's first school is at #21.

Oh, and look who's tied for last place for fall sports among athletics departments in Division 1!

https://nacda.com/documents/2018/12/18/Dec20DIOverall.pdf

Having lived in LA and Chicago the past 20 years...it is a REALLY different world.

You could barely tell LA had a team in the Superbowl and Dodgers playoff tickets are pretty cheap to pick up. A Superbowl or MLB playoffs in Chi was a completely different universe.

I honestly think in the pay-for-online-content era a west coast market's population would need to be divided by 10 to compare to a midwest, southern or northeastern market.

 

[2speedy1]

North/South no more...

Big 12 Central Division:
WVU
ISU
KU
KSU
OU
OSU

Big 12 Southwest Division:
Texas
TCU
Houston
Texas Tech
Arizona State
Arizona

Kick the Murder Rapists out of our conference division:
Baylor

*Actually if Zona/ASU were known to be in the fold would New Mexico make more sense than Houston?

You also have to think if AZ and AZst come, UT and CO might want to come too.

Then you have to also look at COst and NewMex/NewMexSt, and finally Utst and BoiseSt if you are looking to add a team or two more.

With all of this if WVU wants to go to ACC or SEC, you let em go and move our conference Westward if nothing else. If we have to take another Texas team like Houston, I think we require one to leave, IE BAYLOR.

 

[IASTATE07]

Houston, New Mexico, Colorado St will never make sense.

 

[knowlesjam]

Woof...$9.7M over 6 years...pretty sure we are over that with just our 3rd right media sourcing.

 

[2speedy1]

Houston, New Mexico, Colorado St will never make sense.

I agree to a point, but they would make more sense to me than Louisville, Tulsa, Temple, Cinci, Memphis, and probably BYU for that matter. All of which some were pushing for last time. I dont like really many options other than the 4 western PAC schools myself, but when opening up all options those would make the conversation at least.

 

[aeroclone]

If it wasn't for geography, the Pac would be dead already.

 

[IASTATE07]

I agree to a point, but they would make more sense to me than Louisville, Tulsa, Temple, Cinci, Memphis, and probably BYU for that matter. All of which some were pushing for last time. I dont like really many options other than the 4 western PAC schools myself, but when opening up all options those would make the conversation at least.

Why would either New Mexico school make more sense than Louisville or Cincinnati?

 

[CrossCyed]

I've always thought the interesting thing about the B1G, SEC, Pac-12 and now the ACC losing content to their conference networks is....well...ESPN/FOX gotta show something. We already see it in basketball where nearly all conference games are picked up. Those networks are still gonna pick up a P5 game over another conference, so the Big 12 gets more stuff televised.