Cal Tech is a globally elite school with no sports. It's private but as highly regarded as Cal. That would probably be too sudden of a transition to ever try.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Cal Tech is a globally elite school with no sports. It's private but as highly regarded as Cal. That would probably be too sudden of a transition to ever try.
Cal is close to being Pepperdine athletically and I still see nothing online about them.
Exactly. The Monty Show (based in SLC) was talking about Utah fans yesterday. They agree that Utah Twitter fans are about the worst in the country, but that most Utah fans and the school admins are actually not bad.
I could see the MWC dissolving and joining the PAC as a group and MWC leadership taking the helm. The PAC has better CFP access than the MWC (for the rest of the current deal) and better bowl agreements (for however long those run) in addition to the better brand and history.
The main stumbling block is the media deal. The MWC has one, while the PAC doesn't. If the MWC dissolves, does their media deal go with it? I think they're getting $6.5M/, so it wouldn't be a crazy number to beat or match. Perhaps CBS and FOX would be fine with just transferring their current deal over. One thing, for certain, would the PAC's leadership is going away.
Yeah, I'm sure the vast majority of arrogant fans at ASU and even Utah have done a 180 in the past few days and now would love a Big 12 invite.
But the reality is we already have Arizona and BYU on board.
We should ask the media partners if ASU and Utah give us more $$$ and only add them if we do, don't add them if they don't maintain or increase payout. They'll be there later, we're no longer in danger of being eclipsed by ACC/Pac. Neither B10/SEC is going to expand with Utah and there's an incredibly slim chance (not impossible) the SEC looks at the board and takes ASU. ASU's best non Big 12 chance is some day the SEC looks at them as a way to even out numbers the way BY has been looking at Uconn.
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Yes, they would be a good add. No, i doubt they would consider it.
KidSilverhair
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It’s been an epic, historic morning here on CF. I just wanted to say I’m proud to have been here with you all today. What a doozy.
The silence is crazy on Cal especially but Stanford too.
If it's truly about "culture" then Stanford and Cal should be WCC and drop football out of CTE/admissions fairness socio-political concerns.
I don't think it's ever mostly about culture though, that's just something people say.
Had we not taken BYU off the board the Pac would've been looking hard at them.
OSU WSU would be great conference members though I'm afraid the lifeboat is full. But I'd love to have them in conference
It's been a 12 year ride.
KidSilverhair
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So when do we get to officially start our WE SURVIVED megathread? It's finally our turn to be the grave dancers instead of down in the graves.
Partial jimlad. ASU and UU are being pricks, **** them. I feel hard for the Wazzu, OreSt crowd though. Been there.
Partial jimlad. ASU and UU are being pricks, **** them. I feel hard for the Wazzu, OreSt crowd though. Been there.
It was probably bound to be part of the new playoff system anyway, so probably not much.
If I were in charge of Big Ten...the Rose Bowl (the stadium) would be in a 2 or 3 year cycle as CCG venue in a nod to that history.
Assuming Rose Bowl (the bow) remains part of this playoff system any of this nonsense of them favoring Big Ten over any other teams needs to permanently die.
They couldn't have geographically done it worse. The distance from L.A. to Seattle is also quite far. This triangle will be problematic for the B1G.