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Which the money from the football team will pay for. The Big10 already spans New Jersey to Nebraska & sends a football team to the Rose Bowl every year. If you were a swimmer, would you rather go to Minnesota or LA? The B1G network does a pretty good job of putting other sports on national TV, as well as showcasing some of the programs from off-field perspective. AND it's not ESPN/CBS/NBC/Fox. Losing traditions is a downside, but there were traditions before the Big10 that got squashed. We can make new ones. You can only chant 'Ann Arbor is a whore' so many times before it gets old, I'm sure we can bunch up some panties on the left coasters. Now that it's coast-to-coast, maybe a name-change - it hasn't been 10 schools for 30+ years. I wouldn't go big18 with all the changes going on. | |||
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Football and basketball have been footing the bill for athletic departments for the last 30+ years. With the arms race that exists in the revenue sports, all other sports take a backseat or, get cut. The Pac12 prided itself on massive athletic departments, the many championships and its academic standing...however each of the school presidents was unable to walk and chew gum at the same time. Incapable of seeing into the future and anticipating the evolution of the student-athlete and the environment in which they exist; they got outmaneuvered & laped, multiple times by the other conferences. I used to be a long-time season ticket holder for Cal football, it was entertainment (despite the frustrating losses) I followed the team and did a few road trips but, nothing like the SEC or, B1G. With all this realignment into super-conferences and NIL money getting tossed around, the face of collegiate sports has changed. The Have's have consolidated and the Have Not's will fade away, relegated to lesser conferences where exposure and talent will concentrated to a handful of schools. Football and basketball players will get increased level of exclusivity, their separation from the rest of the student body will increase and the student-athlete experience will become a lament for some. Just get it over with and separate these athletic departments into semi-pro teams. | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It is not about the game, it is the tradition. I believe Navy did win one game out of the last 43. BTW Navy now allows players to enter the NFL draft and complete their service commitment later. I have been to a number of Navy ND games and tradition and pagentry stand out. The majority of ND players do NOT go on to play in the NFL. I would not consider the players to be semipro as they have to attend class and meet academic standards. | |||
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And then there were 2. With Stanford, Cal and SMU landing invites to the ACC on Friday, college sports’ conference realignment revolving door of the past three years has finally closed. (We think.) In the end, 17 schools either moved up to a Power 5 conference or flipped from one Power 5 league to another. But two, Oregon State and Washington State, have been kicked out of the club. Oregon State just completed a $161 million renovation of its stadium. Jonathan Smith’s football team won 10 games last season and is ranked 18th in the preseason polls. And yet, it doesn’t have a home. “I’m sorry that a top-20 football team ends up where we are because of the focus on media rights and media valuations,” Oregon State president Jayathi Murthy said Friday. With the American Athletic Conference saying it will “not look westward,” the Mountain West seems like the obvious landing spot for the two Pacific Northwest schools, which would mean a precipitous drop from a Power 5 league that distributed $37 million per-school revenue in 2021-22 to a Group of 5 conference whose payout was less than $10 million. ---------------------- Let's Go Brandon! | |||
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Wow, sorry for Oregon State and Washington State. There was a time in my life where I kinda wanted to go to Wazzu; I thought the Palouse country looked pretty and the connection with the University of Idaho was intriguing (they’re what…30 miles apart?). Didn’t seriously pursue it; couldn’t afford out state tuition anywhere. Anyway, the subject at hand is those two schools and college sports. There was a vacuum in conference leadership in the PAC-12 that led to its demise. It became everyone for themselves and you can’t blame them. I hadn’t heard about Cal and Stanford landing in the ACC, I guess Oregon State and Wazzu are pretty much forced to land in the MWC. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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My understanding is both Cal and Stanford will receive partial shares for the first 10-years, then go to full shares. I don't see all this lasting past five years. The travel impact will be crippling to the students, as both school's administrations are nowhere near as accommodating as other schools when it comes to re-scheduling tests and deadlines.
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Whoever is managing the Pac-12 needs to go to jail. I don't know for what, but they need to be held accountable at some level. Deadline passes for Mountain West, Washington State, Oregon State to renew football scheduling deal The Sept. 1 deadline for the Mountain West and Washington State and Oregon State to renew their football scheduling arrangement passed without an agreement, and the conference said Monday it is anticipating making schedules for next season without the Pac-12 schools. Oregon State and Washington State are operating as a two-team league this season and intend to do so in 2025 as well after 10 Pac-12 schools scattered to other power conferences this year. To fill out football schedules, Washington State and Oregon State agreed to a deal with the Mountain West to play six games against those schools that do not count toward the conference standings. The deal paid the Mountain West about $14 million for this year. The Mountain West and the Pac-12 schools said at the time they would look to possibly extend the agreement another year by Sept. 1, but the sides could not come to terms. https://www.dailyrecordnews.co...8d-b3cb751535dc.html ---------------------- Let's Go Brandon! | |||
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So, first of all it's the PAC-2. Not surprising, they are in such a state of flux I'm not sure it would have made any sense for either side to make any commitments without more insight to longer term plans. That they got games this year is fortunate for them. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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My understanding is that Oregon State and Wazzu both decided they weren’t interested in continuing the MWC football alliance. No word on what exactly they ARE interested in doing, although I imagine they want to try and somehow work their way into one of the remaining Power 4 conferences. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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