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I can’t agree more. We need to get our leadership in place. Everyone down the line have reasonable deadlines and are asked to move quicker in times of great need. The folks up the line need to do the same but even better.

This is an excellent post from top to bottom.

Conference affiliation has ramifications that go far beyond athletics. In fact, as a former U employee in the research field, I would argue that the educational/research benefits of being in the PAC12 are actually greater than the athletic benefits. I can say unequivocally that we would not be in the…[Read more]

The Pac-12 Network and the relative lack of meaningful revenue from it is the #1, #2 and #3 reason that the Pac-12 is never playing from a position of power in these sorts of discussions. Obviously that was the reason for our new commissioner, but the conference needs to figure out a solution yesterday.

Heard today from several people that B1G only would be interested in adding schools from the AAU (Nebraska no longer, but was when it joined league). Texas is AAU member, along with Pac-12 schools like Cal, Washington, Colorado, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Stanford. Oklahoma is not AAU.

— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) July 26, 2021

Internet rumor B1G wants AAU members. That’s a league.

Big 10 East
OSU, Mich, MSU, PSU, Maryland, Rutgers

Big 10 North
Wisc, Minn, NW, Illinois, Purdue, IU

Big 10 South
Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Kansas

Big 10 West
Wash, Oregon, Cal, USC, UCLA, Stanford

agree. USC is the shiny bauble of the Pac-12 but all of their problems are self-inflicted. Reggie Bush, the admin/scholarship debacle, and the sex abuse scandal have nothing to do with the conference they are in.

Still, it won’t keep them from making excuses to separate from the conference.

No. Too much skin in the game.

I highly doubt that Utah / WSU is considered best overall matchup, even if there aren’t any standout games. If you just used the projected win totals from the Vegas Insider:

1. ASU (10) v Colorado (5)
2. UW (8) v Cal (6)
3. USC (9) v Oregon State (4)
4. Utah (8) v WSU (5)
5. Oregon (10) v Arizona (2)
6. UCLA (6) v Stanford (5)

It all depends on the number and who is driving the bus. If it’s the 64 that people are throwing out (4 @ 16 team conferences) Utah probably makes the cut. If it’s the 24 to 32 team SEC driven super league, there’s a very good chance Utah gets left out.

A true national super league is actually an interesting thought exercise because it depends…[Read more]

From the Pac-12.com Website

While television selections for the first few weeks of the 2021 season have been made, as well as all Thursday and Friday games throughout the season, all remaining television game selections and start times, starting with week four (Sat., Sept. 25) and running through the final week of the regular season (Fri., Nov.…

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The “possible” games times are anytime throughout the day and probably won’t be known until 6 days before the game. Thank Larry Scott for the great deal he made with ESPN to hold 12 schools hostage until they decided which game they would like to showcase that week. Depending on how the game is prioritized with the rest of the league it could…[Read more]

It won’t be all the P5. It will be half of it and we won’t be inside.

I think the possible times are 9 AM, 10 AM, 12 AM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 5 Pm and 7 or 8 PM. Sorry that’s the best I’ve got.

The best thing Pete Rozelle and the NFL ever did was to set up their broadcasting packages so that one network could not control the content, and thus, the autonomy of the league. They’ve continued that plan and now have multiple networks who have to compete for the right to show the their content while the NFL determines what is best for their…[Read more]

Honestly at that point and after USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington also join, I’m fine reorganizing the rest of S
CFB to being what CFB should be. Let those schools go be semi pro and and the rest of us tell them to pound sand if they want to play ooc games. There are enough markets and viewers of the schools left out that there would still gobs…[Read more]