Truth or Fiction

[Waybackutefan]

Just a small tidbit, I won’t post the link it’s behind a paywall. The last paragraph continues on to say the 4 corner schools have already accepted invitations from the Big 12, I personally think it’s BS, what say you Utah fans?

“RealDawg.com has learned that a time “Around Memorial Day” is when there will be an official announcement that both the University of Washington and the University of Oregon are leaving the Pac-12 Conference for the B1G Conference. The move won’t occur until 2024 or 2025.”

“The Pac-12 as we know it will be done by July,” a source has informed RealDawg.com. “Utah, Colorado, ASU, and Arizona are already gone.”

[AlohaUte]

Everything for the last year has pretty much been wrong, so most likely fiction. That said, I’m so over realignment talk. Just want the season to start already.

[Utesbyfive]

Wake me up when something besides a rumor actually happens.

[Ute Dub]

Genuine question. How much good has the PAC 12 done for the University of Utah outside of football and all sports programs. I feel like it’s been an enormous amount of good. Everything from the prestige of  the school of medicine increasing and on down to the business school improving. Are all those programs better off in the PAC 12 rather than the BIG 12? Or does it even matter? 

[Utesbyfive]

Would the U have gotten an AAU invite without that association?

[Ute Dub]

Good point. So, what I’m saying is, would leaving the PAC 12 for the BIG 12 be a downgrade in any way for the education and non sports part of the university. 

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Without the Pac-12, I don’t see Utah getting the AAU invite.  Utah had been on the AAU’s radar since the mid-90s, back when we were in the WAC, and then-Pres. Bernie Machen was pushing vigorously for that invitation.  We had the “research”, but we didn’t have the requisite recommendations.  But after joining the Pac-12, Stanford, Cal, and Washington started advocating for us.  A decade later, we were in.  And I don’t think that it was a coincidence either.  Same thing happened to Arizona, shortly after joining the Pac-10.

[ALUF]

I’m saying fiction until this “vetted and cleared” stuff on Oregon and Washington proves to turn into an actual invite to the big ten.

[Ute2]

On any fanboard there are some reputable people and some goofballs.  

if onlyu says this I’m getting my cowboy hat.  Some others?  I’ll keep my west coast head-ware .

I don’t suppose anybody knows anything about the source?

[Roy Rangum]

This sounds like fiction to me. But, if I had heard a leak that USC and UCLA were going to the B1G, I probably would have thought that was fiction too.

It’s plausible if Oregon and UW truly have been invited to the B1G, but, it sounded like for a long time that wasn’t going to happen during this round of expansion.

[Central Coast Ute]

There were rumors “the four corners” had any accepted an invite to the BIG 12 last summer too. Don’t believe anything until it actually happens.

[Extra Medium]

Nothing moves until Notre Dame renews with NBC or joins a conference. That’s the next big “chip” in the realignment game. B1G is waiting on that before inviting anyone else. Oregon and UW aren’t going anywhere. The B1G isn’t diluting their media deal unless they get ND. For what in understand there is no increase in the payout if they add teams so it makes 0 sense to expand now.