Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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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.
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Oregon, Washington join Big Ten: Programs depart Pac-12 in 2024 after serving as charter members since 1915
The Ducks and Huskies exiting the Pac-12 might be a death knell for the conference
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.
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.
Big 12 would get the last laugh eventually. Eventually reality will result in the “What the **** was I thinking” moment.
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.
Most likely because it's a requirement within the media offer.
How would you stay if you got locked into a crappy tv deal with no exposure and also knowing the OWA are going to be not long term anyway.
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.
Oregon, Washington join Big Ten: Programs depart Pac-12 in 2024 after serving as charter members since 1915
The Ducks and Huskies exiting the Pac-12 might be a death knell for the conference
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 $$$
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
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.
Oregon, Washington join Big Ten: Programs depart Pac-12 in 2024 after serving as charter members since 1915
The Ducks and Huskies exiting the Pac-12 might be a death knell for the conference
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.
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.
I wonder what would happen if Arizona just refused to sign the GOR
Zero chance they are meeting with the intent to sign a GOR. 8 hours ago, a minimum of three teams were looking to leave. You don't just come up with a GOR and a meeting in 6 hours.
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.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.
Oregon, Washington join Big Ten: Programs depart Pac-12 in 2024 after serving as charter members since 1915
The Ducks and Huskies exiting the Pac-12 might be a death knell for the conference
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.
Do they receive state funding today? If so, that probably stops if they refuse, right?
