Well you could just call them a-holes.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Well you could just call them a-holes.
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Someone gave me a "creative" but I'm telling you Arizona was looking at B12 before USC/UCLA even left. These #s don't lie to a school who cares about hoops.
Hopefully we see some movement after the meeting. Seems like official #s from the PAC was the formality AZ needed before making the switch
If so, then why does Colorado leaving mean so much?
I'm not disagreeing with you that Colorado wasn't successful in football over the last decade, but if they really were bottom of the barrel, no one cared, then them leaving should, at worst, do nothing, and at best strengthen the Pac9 position going forward.
It’s all about school exposure. I don’t remember exact numbers but about 15 years ago my brother was working at Fresno St when they made a miracle run in the College World Series. Their application rate skyrocketed that next year.
Everyone has their own version of tailgating. We do it in parking lots; they do it in bars. It’s all good.
This reminds me of the Family Guy skit where Peter is offered a boat or a mystery box and he takes the mystery box. These schools just have to know what’s in GK’s Mystery box!
This dude is awesome. I might keep following after this whole re-alignment thing cools off.
I mean, rumors of Arizona to the Big 12 have been a thing for close to a decade now. In part I always thought it was mostly our own wishful thinking, but perhaps not.
Every non-"state" school in the Big 8 did it. Midwestern colloquialism.
University of Colorado (CU)
University of Kansas (KU)
University of Missouri (MU)
University of Nebraska (NU)
University of Oklahoma (OU)
The takeaway is the conference members are beginning to realize the fragile nature of the conference. If the conference had strong footing, they would have reached a media rights deal long ago. Colorado leaving the conference and rejoining a conference they left 12 or so years ago is a huge statement.
It means something, in my mind, because it simply can’t be the end. It’s been covered a little bit already (@HoopsTournament covered it briefly). It is impossible to schedule with 13 teams. Not just “hard”, but mathematically impossible, so the Big12 has to add another institution.
The prevailing thought is that institution is Arizona, and Arizona leaving would cripple the PAC. If Arizona doesn’t leave, we’re staring directly at UCONN.
The cards are stacked against the PAC, for sure, but all things being equal, SDSU replacing CU isn’t as far fetched as people think. The problem for the PAC is how much it would cost SDSU to make such a move ($34M exit fee) plus the fact the PAC has, presumably at best, a ****** deal on the table that GK will present tomorrow.
Scheer also reporting that no one knows where linear will come from and that a very small portion of it is going to be linear anyway.
Potentially increases in $$ if ratings are hit. How are rating #s going to be when 85% is streaming and 15% linear.
Potentially increases in $$ if ratings are hit. How are rating #s going to be when 85% is streaming and 15% linear.
I'm just imaging GK is a huge procrastinator and has his "To-Do" list on a post-it note stuck to his monitor.
[ ] Secure PAC
Today he's staring at that empty check box thinking, "ah, I'll get to it tomorrow"
IIRC, the Big 12 could’ve had the Arizona schools back in 2016 when that expansion palooza with all those G5 schools was going on. If OuT had been committed it could’ve been done so much sooner than now
The fast changing winds of realignment. ....FLASH....
Iowa State has just announced that they are going Independent and have signed an annual rivalry game contract with Notre Dame!
I'm thinking he may need to switch to B12 beat out of self preservation. The price of being right.