Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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I think you’re misreading it slightly. The UC regents could have tried to stop UCLA from joining without Cal.
In response, the B10 would’ve had two paths forward:
- Drop UCLA for Stanford, since the UC Regents can’t control them.
- Take Cal along with USCLA and add a 4th. Personally, I think WA would have been a more likely 4th in that scenario rather than double dipping in two markets. Markets matter far more for the B10 than other conferences as they have a network to get cable carriage fees. OR would have been 2nd choice, and Stanford 3rd.
You implied that the California BoR tried to tie USC with Stanford as part of a package deal to the B1G. The California BoR has ZERO say in what USC or Stanford do.
Yeah, not buying that report at all. What a huge **** up that would be.
Yes yes yes I know, MHaver sucks. However, him slapping a date on something seems like a bold thing to do if he's making **** up.
Guess we have some fun ******** to look ahead at coming soon
Guess we have some fun ******** to look ahead at coming soon
That guy is absolutely, unequivocably, 100% lying right now.
MHver and the Dude of WV always "confirmed" through "sources" things that never happen.
He almost certainly just googled "when is the Big 12 tournament" and picked the day before it
Didn't say the Cal BOR had power with Stanford or USC. I believe my words were "essentially" or "in-essence". If the Cal BOR could force Big10 to take Cal-Berkeley, the beneficiary would be Stanford.
In regard to your carriage fee comment. You could be right that adding Seattle would bring more value to BTN than a second Bay Area school. But maybe not. When the Big10 added USC & UCLA there was an article that mentioned by adding both LA schools the carriage fee the Big10 could charge customers in LA would be higher than if it added just 1 LA school. LA market area is 18M people. Would a multiplier apply if Big10 added 2 Bay Area teams? The Bay Area MSA is over 6.7M people while Seattle is 4M.
And from a travel cost, rivalry, academics, silicon valley, etc. - the Cal/Stanford combination might be preferred over Cal/UW or Cal/OR.
Amateur hour here. Never commit to a date. Learn from the end of the world preachers on that one. When your date passes, leaves you to explain what went wrong.
Right before the start of the Big12 Conference Tournament (and all other P5 Hoops Tournaments). There wad speculation by media folks that would also be (edit deadline) for Pac12 Commissioner to bring plan to Pac12 Presidents.
Big 10 just swaps out Stanford for UCLA and the Cal BoR just screwed all their schools.
When you factor the total value of the media deal split among all those teams, the difference in swapping Stanford for UCLA isn’t going to be a big difference per team.
I think he had some health issue or family health issue and took a long break.
I don't remember if it was him or the Dude that named the time and place of the FSU to Big 12 announcement in Tallahassee that no one on campus there knew anything about. FSU fans that bought it were showing up. Sad.
Well I guess we can unequivocally see if he's spouting BS lol (not to say that he doesn't spout BS if it does pan out to be true, but if it's always wrong
)You have media people in both camps. That Kliavkoff has to bring something by Pac12 Tournament and others who don't feel anything will happen until after the Final 4.
I would think Final 4 makes more sense. Typically sports leagues don't like news to break during their big events to detract reporting from the event. Especially bad news.