Pac-12 to decide whether to expand within a couple weeks
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Yep, the PAC has shown that they don't want to be involved with the religious schools. And a second school in Texas makes sense for establishing a foot hold. Houston is the 3rd largest metro in the country, and UH has an enrollment of roughly 46k with a large alumni base.
Yes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Yes. Stillwater, Lubbock, & Manhattan have nothing on Ames.
Other than being closer to each other and an expanded PAC.
It has gotten awfully quiet on the B12 front which leads me to believe something is up.
So, you are saying saying the PAC schools are more concerned about saving 45 minutes on a plane by selecting KSU, rather than select the team that would be a close 2nd in football attendance and 3rd in TV viewership in the PAC, that is an AAU school? They have been a pretty poorly run conference, but I doubt they are THAT dumb.
If ACC and Big Ten go 16 were only talking about three teams total since ND is already in mix with ACC.
Not enough to destabilize the PAC if big ten went that route.
20-22 team conferences will mean two majors. ACC would be where we are now and maybe PAC.
16 means four majors.
24 or more is one NFL G league.
Status quo is big 12 barely hanging on to P5 the way the big east barely hung on to BCS status.
Reminds of the Family Guy skit where Peter can choose a boat or a mystery box and he says, “a boat is a boat, but the box could be anything, it could even be a boat!”
I'm sorry, someone is going to have to explain to me why I'm getting dumbed out of the building here...
Cincinnati -- Former "power conference" member of the Big East. Expand east and give WVU a natural conference rival.
Houston and SMU --- Former "power conference" members of the SWC, natural fit.
BYU -- never in a "power conference" per se, but hold more clout as an Independent than as an AAC/Mtn West conference team, large fan base too.
Honorable mention for Rice, also as a former member of the SWC. We already have TCU and Baylor, and in this hypothetical we'd have BYU. Might as well add another Christian school to the mix and you could add them over Cincinnati since everyone is weird about "city" colleges being in a power conference.
This solution makes sense if we're adding teams. No directional schools (which I agree with) and only 1 or 2 at most, city colleges, which I'm sorry, I don't understand why that's weird.
Well yeah, the biggest winners in this whole process are doing their thing: Lawyers and billable hours
It’s dumb because your cart is 100 kilometers ahead of your horses.
Especially because a Pac-12 invite to us probably comes with ones to Tech, OSU, and let’s say Kansas. If we say no or even hesitate, the other 3 all say yes and the Pac-12 just moves on to TCU. Now we are looking at joining the American with WVU, K-State, and Baylor. We have to say yes if we get an invite - same is true for all the Big 12 schools.
Isn’t there some kind of language in conference GOR’s about congruent states? That might be true but Kansas touches Colorado and I think that is the point.
so which is it, tv ratings or states where no one watches the teams you are forwarding as better options than Iowa state?
You guys continually contradict yourselves. Eyeballs matter, no one watches tech at all, so that would force you to say something positive about Iowa state, so you change to regions.
No one in Texas watches tech. Kids that go to school there, end up there because it’s cheap and they accept everybody. The rooting interests are with ut and a&m in this state. There’s a reason their ad made public statements, they know they’re in trouble.
Oklahoma state is different, but still the second school in their state by a long long ways, again no one watches them either. Cable subscriptions don’t matter anymore.
And still waiting for you to explain how Disney is going to get themselves and the two schools out of paying exit fees
Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC Alliance expected to be announced soon, possibly next week
theathletic.com
Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC alliance expected to be formally announced soon: Sources
Schools within the three conferences believe they are like-minded, that they want to continue to prioritize broad-based sports offerings and that the academic profile of their institutions matters.
theathletic.com
This is America, we ain't got no kilometers
I would wait. To me, a scheduling alliance makes sense; a Pac XII expansion into the Midwest doesn't make sense.
