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Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

12191987 said:
What is this crazy feeling? There is conference realignment, yet I’m not overcome by existential dread? In fact, I’m eager to hear of more teams switching conferences.

So weird.
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Right now, I think we can sympathize with Washington State and Oregon State fans. They must be wondering what will happen to their programs, much like most of us were dreading the thought of going to the MAC back only about 13 years ago. The likely landing spot may be the Mountain West for them if the PAC crumbles.

But for once, it’s nice to be able to be in a position of “who wants to join us” rather than “who wants us”
 
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The cascade of even lower PAC payouts will begin with Colorado parting ways. Definitely a negative feedback loop that only drives the prime teams out faster, continuing the drop in payouts. I'm assuming two more teams pretty quick (if UCONN is the third) or three more teams (if UCONN is a no). Should be a entertaining next few days/weeks.
 
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In all of this, I feel the worst for Oregon State and Washington State. We were them when Missouri, Colorado and Nebraska left. It’s awful. I remember listening to every podcast I could find about realignment to get the varying opinions hoping for some good news for Iowa State. They have the exact leadership we had in place at that time and they have to feel helpless.
 
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Colorado is going to get the sh*t treatment from the rest of the PAC this season. Every team in the league is going to try to run up the score on Prime as much as possible while he's trying to resurrect the program. Also, fortunately for them, it's the TV networks, not the conference, who decide kickoff times for their games.
 
UNIGuy4Cy said:
In all of this, I feel the worst for Oregon State and Washington State. We were them when Missouri, Colorado and Nebraska left. It’s awful. I remember listening to every podcast I could find about realignment to get the varying opinions hoping for some good news for Iowa State. They have the exact leadership we had in place at that time and they have to feel helpless.
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I don’t feel bad for anyone…. nobody ever felt bad for ISU…. f’em!
 
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Yaz said:
LOL

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Big 12 fans were told the last several years by Pac 12 media that an OU/UT less Big 12 was no greater than the AAC in terms of media revenue.

Guys like Stewart Mandel danced on the Big 12s grave 2 years ago and now he is dealing with the things he said 2 years ago. He essentially laughed at people (like Chris Williams) for suggesting the Big 12 still has value. He truly could not fathom in any universe a OU/UT less Big 12 has more value than a USC/UCLA less Pac 12 hence the “beaches” comments.
 
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Just thinking out loud - I had wanted Arizona and ASU for that rivalry, but I wonder if the idea would be go to 16 (Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, Washington) and then having every team in the conference schedule a non-con rivalry week, which then lets Arizona still play Arizona State.

I realize Arizona State would have to agree to it, but they got their own asses into this mess. Probably the only school I don't feel bad for.
 
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