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Not saying I would have predicted this but there have been cracks. UO and UW coming down a peg. Stanford, UCLA and Cal attendance not being good. The disaster of Larry Scott and PAC network. UA and ASU not a factor at all. The title game doesn’t even register nationally. Still, you’d think their history and location would have protected them. Then the B1G wrecked that. I think the PAC is in really bad shape. Maybe not today or tomorrow but in the next ten years. In a rational world they’d reconfigure as an academic/athletic conference that has realistic expectations. But you can’t do that in these times, just like G5 will never break off until they are forced to.

Actually, she’d buy it if it were big. Off-season!

Not very big but I’d buy one.

This is a legit question from the outside looking in. But if the question is are SDSU and SMU enough to keep the PAC together, it’s a different answer. The Big 12 stays together because those schools have nowhere else to go. That might not be the case with the PAC. You MIGHT be able to backfill with two. Any more than that and it’s done.

GTFOH

The article that this article is based on is from March. I swear just trying to keep updated on this (or anything) is navigating a web of articles based on articles from other articles.

Not trying to be critical but if someone signs up for $25 what engagement do they get besides emails? This is the problem that has plagued the MGC or MGSF. People sign up, don’t feel like they’re getting anything to be part of something. The AD puts on events and gets frustrated by the lack of engagement and doesn’t feel like it’s worth it in time and money. Both parties have a legitimate gripe.

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If you signed a tv deal with the PAC thinking you’d get Oregon, Wash, and the four corner schools and most of those leave and replaced with MWC schools, that tv deal is over. The PAC as a P5 entity is over.

Let’s say the Big 12 takes the four corner schools and UW and UO go to the Big Ten (that’s projecting a lot but still possible). The PAC doesn’t survive that no matter who they add. I don’t know what P5 conference would want OSU and WSU and at that point Stanford might just go independent until they figure things out. Not sure what Cal does. Small chance all this happens but I think there’s no chance PAC survives by adding a bunch of G5 schools. And I bet the TV contract addresses this. Nobody wants to show their games as they are currently configured, my guess is they get below AAC numbers if too many teams bail.

The PAC really doesn’t have a lot of leverage. I’m interested to hear if it ever comes out the difference between the deal in April and the final deal. I could be wrong but it feels like this will be a giant lipstick on a pig announcement when the deal comes out. Talked to a B1G fan recently who knows people at MSU. He says there’s interest in UW and UO but almost none in Stanford/Cal. Crazy but in five years the biggest winner in this might be the MWC if they are able to add the scraps if/when the PAC collapses.

It’s possible they’ve been negotiating behind the scenes. They get a month delay for $24 mil. I’d be surprised if the MWC was caught off guard by this.

Not sure why you’d want UNM. They’ve been a disaster at football and that’s coming from a UNT fan.

Pretty accurate, don’t get the Memphis love though.

I dunno, Natchitoches, San Marcos, Lake Charles, Nacogdoches, Thibodaux, and Huntsville had its charm. Kidding, sort of.

I used to be in favor of trying to get in the MWC, not any more. We need to win where we are. I would love to have the road trips we have now if I were still in the area.

https://twitter.com/on3sports/status/1669137941057118208?s=46 Obviously I can’t embed tweets but these types of schedules are brutal. No chance to make the SEC champ game. Maybe the new playoff. Curious to see if the interest is there for a late season 5-4 UF vs 4-5 UT game even with the name recognition. How fast does the novelty wear off? 8-4 would be a pretty good achievement. But not sure if that will be acceptable to these fan bases. Or donors shelling out NIL money.

Better read the fine print on that PAC 12 media deal. Even the B1G media deal won’t be as much as originally projected. My guess it will be a lot of money assumptions/targets to project a larger number but it all depends on how much the media tears it apart. If it doesn’t go over well, at least two teams will bolt. Living on the west coast, there’s more doom and gloom than hope.

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Gonna take some work to get all these pieces working together but that’s today’s CBB. Would rather have the pieces than not.

Colorado takes a few teams with it to Big 12. Oregon and Wash take less money and bail to the Big Ten. Pac 12 falls apart and SDSU and SMU end up in the MW. 🙂

There’s been discussion on here about which direction to focus recruiting on in the Wild West of transfers. Even though it’s tough to lose players to other schools I think you still have to mostly focus on high school kids. Seems like at least you have a chance to keep them. No chance in keeping someone who never spent time on campus. I’m all for player movement but there needs to be some limitations. But like i’ve said before, the NCAA has been basically neutered when it comes to football. And good luck getting all these conferences to agree on a set of rules.

Kudos for the positivity, i just wish there were more football reasons for the optimism. There’s still time for that but in fall camp we better be hearing more good offensive news. We’re gonna need 24 points to win this game.

Serious question, why? The only way I feel more comfortable going into this game is IF more positive news about the QB play comes out in fall camp.

Probably, but adding SDSU and SMU doesn’t save the PAC 12 from more cherry-picking