Maybe he could open a gyro cart in Pullman or Corvallis?
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Maybe he could open a gyro cart in Pullman or Corvallis?
I don’t think the MWC will dissolve: they’re the ones with a media deal (even if it’s bad); the PAC X has nothing. What will probably happen is the PAC X will dissolve and the MWC will accept the teams and rebrand - probably as the new PAC Y.
Mandel is the freakin' editor-in-chief of the Athletic's college football coverage, He should have to resign. The Athletic needs a major shakeup because they clearly have no clue what's going on. Bruce Feldman is the only guy who should be listened to from that outfit.
Stanford goes independent. Cal probably has to too before they're just another Cal college like Fullerton, Irvine, Davis, Santa Barbara, etc etc.
He still hasn't decided if the PAC's "going shopping" or not to poach Big XII schools.
KidSilverhair
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Cal and Stanford would have to swallow some serious crow to beg for a spot in the “truck stop conference.” It‘d be fine to have them, good brands, quality institutions - but they‘ve put themselves so high above the B12 it seems unlikely they’d stoop to joining us.
It would be a much better conference fit for the B12 with Oregon State and Washington State as 15 and 16; I just doubt Fox will pony up any additional dollars for them, though … but how much would they add for Utah and Arizona State anyway?
we got one going https://discord.gg/ezy7QDS2
"The Alliance" being with their psychotic bloody murderer instead of their life saving ambulance really makes it easy to not have a lot of sympathy.
I mean they went out of the way to make sure the life saving ambulance/lifeboat was not welcomed.
The new scheduling system in the B1G has every program playing every other program at least twice every four years. So if Iowa plays only Nebby, Minny, Rutgers, Indiana, NW, Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin, and UCLA one year, they'll be playing all of USC, tOSU, Michigan, PSU the next year.
My Cal and Stanford prediction. They both want the Big 10, but won't get it. If they both think they are too good for the Big 12, they will think they are too good for the new Pac 12/MWC. I predict Stanford will go independent. They can afford it. I predict Cal will go FCS and join the Big Sky.
Let’s bring Oregon State and Washington State at 15 and 16, and force the others to go independent or to the MWC. I don’t care about media value. There are some schools left who deserve to live on in top-level college athletics and some who are proving that maybe they don’t. Plus, OSU and WSU are much better organizational fits in the B12 than any of the other schools. Take Arizona, offer OSU/WSU the next spots but Fox doesn’t have to match the pro-rata (would be reduced share, $20M). It’s clear the others don’t want to be a part of the Big 12.
I don't see any of those 4 as B12 options as shrewd as BY is. Stanford and Cal play to empty football stadiums and have no real fanbase like our current 14 have in at least one of the two major sports and like UConn would bring for FB or Utah would bring for FB.
I think Stanford/Cal have a slim chance that some day the Big Ten wants to get REALLY huge and takes them along with extra ACC adds...or they go FB independent, or they drop football.
They aren't going to join the MWC unless they beg Big 12 and Big 12 gives a hard no. It's not like the MWC is full of Harvards. The WCC could offer similar crazy expensive private mostly CA colleges without football.
I still think on the whole ASU thing it’s a very small group speaking for everyone else when everyone else changed their mind. Sure, they originally wanted to stay committed to the PAC 12, and I don’t blame them for that. But when reality set in and no real media deal was ever going to be signed, they realized the Big 12 was the best option. Except Crow keeps being a **** about it. And, as was pointed out earlier in the thread, nobody at ASU has even liked Crow for the last several decades.
More like $7-8M, if they are lucky. And WSU is in a huge hole budget-wise already. It’s awful for those guys.