There’s a really high probability Rob Mullens and Pollard are communicating today. (To be clear that’s not an Oregon to the Big 12 rumor, but those two are certainly allies.)
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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I suppose not completely sure, but their league has already been struggling and I don't think it gets decidedly better after suddenly losing two of the top draws and adding back a couple current Big 12 teams.
IMO, from most likely to least likely:
1. Big 12 takes some of the PAC 12 schools
2. Big 12/PAC 12 merge in some fashion
3. PAC 12 takes some of the Big 12 schools
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I'm curious if there would be hurdles regarding UCLA going anywhere without Cal. They're just different campuses of the University of California.
The alliance thing was a total sham from the beginning but it's good to know basically it's not just Bowlsby that got knifed in the back here.
If somehow only two schools end up moving (and again nothing has been finalized but it looks that way) then some schools are not going to survive this. Rough situation to walk into for the new commissioners for the PAC and Big12
#2 is such an intriguing option because there are now 22 schools across these two leagues and I bet there could be calls about trying to get the 12 or 14 most valuable to stick together and drop the rest. That would not be a clean "League A absorbs some of League B" but rather schools from both leagues merge and leave behind other schools from both leagues. Will be fascinating to see.
People didnt think that texas would be allowed to leave without tech but it eventually happened, slightly different here but who the hell knows anymore.
So dumb the conferences didn't just get together for a football structure back when there actually were 64 P6/P5 teams. They could have structured it as two tiers if they wanted 30ish teams in a power teams only division.
They should've already just merged at several points.
The UC system vs. whatever regent system governs Texas is gonna be like night and day with respect to conference affiliation changes.
They are fixing it with the addition of the Cali schools?
I would rather the original Big 8 members just go to the PAC-12. The only small Ray of hope I have is getting the **** away from Baylor, TTU, TCU and just Texas schools in general. Houston is slightly more palatable than those other schools but that will probably change rapidly. Being a Texan/Texas entity is like being a brain eating amoeba.
Not to mention, if anyone actually thinks the Big 12 was bad for ISU, the old Big 8 would have been picked apart by the other major conferences a long time ago. ISU only has a chance of survival now because we were part of the Big 12.
Here is why I think the Big 12 is in a better position than the PAC right now and why I think the PAC is screwed.
They basically lost their two biggest brands, and their TV rights negotiations are already happening for 2024. We've seen with OuT how hard it is to get out of the grant of rights and actually exit the conference. Even 1 year is a huge huge number.
The Pac 12 schools can leave in 2024 and do so free and clear. Big 12 schools would still owe that GoR to the rest of the league for at least the 1 year.
I hear you but in these scenarios where there has been smoke, a bomb usually goes off
