Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

Cyched

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It just seems like UA is too far along the process to back out.

ASU and UU were always tougher sells so I’m not overly surprised if they decide to stay
 
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This has been said so many times just in the last few days. We can't have 13 members. the 9-game schedule for football doesn't work.
There have been several posts made in this thread with creative (granted they would be quite unconventional and never done before) solutions that could be implemented for a couple years to work around that issue. IMO, those solutions are way better than promoting another G6 team to a power conference. FSU seems intent on blowing up the ACC.
 

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What do you mean? They can approve or nuke any deal. Supposedly they "authorized" the move to the Big 12 last night but what that technically means, I haven't seen reported. Did they give the president the authority to decide? Did they make the decision to move the Big 12 conditionally, like only if the Pac collapses for example? I haven't seen real specific reporting on that, mostly because once such moves are authorized they generally always happen. I saw a mention a short time ago that they might make UA and ASU lock arms in whatever happens.
The way this almost certainly works is that at some point there would be a very clear and public yes/no vote by the board of regents to allow the Arizona President/University to leave the Pac and join the Big 12. There is no such thing as a conditional authorization vote. What that would be talking about is the dialog between the schools and board about what the board would want or need to get to the vote. A vote would be very clear cut, everything getting to that point can be and usually is very hazy and not always very public.
 

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This Crow guy is really an ISU grad?! Did he graduate with a degree in basket weaving?
 
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I could be thinking wrong here so help me out... Why would you sign the GOR before you've agreed and signed onto the media rights deal?
I think it's just another mis-step of the PAC leadership. It's almost like they have no idea what they are doing. My guess is GK is figuring, since he doesn't have a deal to present, maybe he can sucker everyone into signing their rights away to keep them in place. Honestly, even if I were WSU and OSU I wouldn't sign **** without a deal in place. When this is all said and done, the MW could be a better deal that what the PAC will have.
 

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Apparently the B1G offer was such a lowball that it actually made financial sense for Oregon and Washington to stay home. This is bonkers. As long as they could work their way up to full shares in time, it's still in their best long term interests to jump.


As a college football fan I’m not overly upset with them rebuffing the Big 10 and staying in their regional league, but man, you’re giving up a lot of long term stability and $$$
 
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You literally HAVE to take them if Arizona stays. You can't play a 9 game league schedule with 13 schools.
I wonder if we could setup an 8 game known schedule then basically 1-6th place games where 13th gets a BYE or plays someone we contract with like a Coastal Carolina or some ****. Would be good entertainment
 
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Apparently the B1G offer was such a lowball that it actually made financial sense for Oregon and Washington to stay home. This is bonkers. As long as they could work their way up to full shares in time, it's still in their best long term interests to jump.


I don't buy it. If I'm Oregon, I make the move for $15 mil/year lol. It guarantees your future and associating with B1G institutions will only accelerate the University's growth.

Story just doesn't add up. It's likely just posturing from OR because no way they say no to a B1G lifeline.
 
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The way this almost certainly works is that at some point there would be a very clear and public yes/no vote by the board of regents to allow the Arizona President/University to leave the Pac and join the Big 12. There is no such thing as a conditional authorization vote. What that would be talking about is the dialog between the schools and board about what the board would want or need to get to the vote. A vote would be very clear cut, everything getting to that point can be and usually is very hazy and not always very public.

That is almost certainly not true. I don't have time to do the research now, but how many times in the past decade have decision making boards given their presidents the authority to make the call? In part because these things move fast and there isn't always time for the public formalities.
 

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Apparently the B1G offer was such a lowball that it actually made financial sense for Oregon and Washington to stay home. This is bonkers. As long as they could work their way up to full shares in time, it's still in their best long term interests to jump.

That low ball was writing on the wall when Fox approved the additional 2. What seems unbelievable is that an entire conference is hanging on OR/WA decisions. They, IMO, just don't have enough 'marque' to garner high value. But, hey, I'm just a dude on a couch.
 

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I don't buy it. If I'm Oregon, I make the move for $15 mil/year lol. It guarantees your future and associating with B1G institutions will only accelerate the University's growth.

Story just doesn't add up. It's likely just posturing from OR because no way they say no to a B1G lifeline.

Well evidently it was Washington that got cold feet.

The only way this makes sense is if the B1G made this low offer with no promise of eventually becoming full-share members. Which would be a first in any of these conference realignment moves, I think.
 
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