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.)
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.Are we sure the opposite doesn’t happen and Big 12 schools get poached?
How's that alliance working out now?
Yeah, I could see that.Who says Cal and Stanford don't follow USC/UCLA to the B1G? They're huge brands academically, decent brands athletically, and together they give the B1G a four-team pod in California. Makes some sense.
Hurdles would be an understatement. I doubt the state allows it.I'm curious if there would be hurdles regarding UCLA going anywhere without Cal. They're just different campuses of the University of California.
This would blow.Original 6 Big 12 members. ISU, KSU, KU, OSU, Tech, and Baylor. Throw them together with Arizona, ASU, Utah, Colorado, Oregon State, and Washington State. BYU and Houston can come too I guess lol
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
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.Hurdles would be an understatement. I doubt the state allows it.
Silly season is upon us again.
I doubt the state does anything.Hurdles would be an understatement. I doubt the state allows it.
#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.
They are fixing it with the addition of the Cali schools?That scheduling is being fixed in the next year or so, wont be as infrequent, should be every 3/4 years at the worst
This would blow.
Yep. Nothing about realignment since the formation of the B12 has been good for the sport overall. You see it in dwindling attendance numbers. Concentration of all the athletes at fewer schools will give those teams incredible depth, but also locker rooms that are nasty to manage. Good luck. Iowa State will continue to exist but we’re going to be the equivalent of FCS now, along with everyone else outside of the SEC and B1G.
The fact that due to geography and dumb luck, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Rutgers will somehow have more of a piece of the pie than us, or Oklahoma State, or now most of the Pac-12 schools, is just ludicrous.
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
Ill believe this when it actually happens