The PAC 10 expansion groundswell

[YOhio]

Yes! In other news, I might be receiving a phone call from Margot Robbie.

That's cool, PAC. How do you know her?

[byu71]

I've reached the tipping point.

I no longer have any expectations that BYU will get into a P5 conference.

If it happens, I will be very happy. If not, no loss.

I myself am in a very calm state when it comes to BYU athletics. I am happy with the coverage on TV. I do worry that maybe out of the clear blue we will join a P5 conference, so I still pay my CC dues. Great deal though as someone has offered to pay half and they get access to the BB tickets and I have access to FB tickets if I ever choose to buy again.

No more angst over the whole thing and thus I am also a lot more open to Bronco doing his thing. It is a good place to be.

I will miss going to away games with my brother and kids. He and his boys are heading to Michigan and being at the big house sounds fun. WE however decided to spend the money on a trip to play Pebble Beach. That to me sounds fun too.

[TripletDaddy]

That's cool, PAC. How do you know her?

PAC is up to speed on the current It girls.

I remember last year when SeattleUte tried to do something similar and referenced Nicole Kidman

[kccougar]

[falafel]

Huh. Isn't that two years running?

[Bigfoot is Cain]

One of the best thing about this was that Tujague made a joke about the Pac 13 and a bunch of Ute fans on twitter had a tizzy fit over it. Maybe I'm the exception, but I don't follow Utah, Utah coaches, Utah players, or anything related to Utah on twitter, facebook or anywhere else. I'm not really concerned with what they are saying or doing. I'm not really sure why so many Utah fans seem to follow BYU coaches and official BYU accounts, but they really love to freak out and find something to be offended about with every tweet and post.

[Commando]

One of the best thing about this was that Tujague made a joke about the Pac 13 and a bunch of Ute fans on twitter had a tizzy fit over it. Maybe I'm the exception, but I don't follow Utah, Utah coaches, Utah players, or anything related to Utah on twitter, facebook or anywhere else. I'm not really concerned with what they are saying or doing. I'm not really sure why so many Utah fans seem to follow BYU coaches and official BYU accounts, but they really love to freak out and find something to be offended about with every tweet and post.

Because it's a provincial, pathetic fanbase whose sizable white trash element is now computer literate?

[Topper]

One of the best thing about this was that Tujague made a joke about the Pac 13 and a bunch of Ute fans on twitter had a tizzy fit over it. Maybe I'm the exception, but I don't follow Utah, Utah coaches, Utah players, or anything related to Utah on twitter, facebook or anywhere else. I'm not really concerned with what they are saying or doing. I'm not really sure why so many Utah fans seem to follow BYU coaches and official BYU accounts, but they really love to freak out and find something to be offended about with every tweet and post.

Utah has a fan base?

[Uncle Ted]

LOL... PAC-whatever is starting to wake up to the possibility of being eaten:

Conference Realignment and the PAC-12: To Eat or Be Eaten

The Big 12 is looking to expand, which means its time to eat or be eaten in the world of college athletics.
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Given that Larry Scott continues to get stonewalled by DirecTV and remains unable to drive significant concessions from either the networks or the cable companies, he has no choice to evaluate his options. Those include:

1. Do nothing
2. Re-evaluate the option to expand through the invitation of non-Power 5 schools
3. Reassess targeting other Power 5 schools for expansion

Option 1 is a non-starter. The PAC-12 is very clearly losing ground to the SEC and Big Ten in the competition for conference relevancy, based on the basic financial results that have leaked out over this offseason. In fact, you can argue with a straight face that the PAC-12 might be competing with the Big 12 for the title of "least relevant" in the conference pecking order. Part of this is due to the self-inflicted strategy of going it alone with their network ownership, while part of it is due to factors not fully in their control such as their geographic location and the competitive parity that exists across the sports.
[...]
The old adage of the swimming shark nevertheless applies. Either you are swimming or you are dying in this day and age of college athletics. Larry Scott needs to be swimming like a shark and he needs to be doing it right this minute.


There is another consideration here and the shark analogy continues to apply. Just as bigger sharks have been known to eat the smaller of their species, the PAC-12 cannot assume that it is not the hunted in this sea of change.


On Sirius XM this week, analyst and former Husky head coach Rick Neuheisel opened the possibility that it might make sense for some current PAC members to look towards competitive conferences. He suggested that Cal and UCLA, in particular, might be targets that could have an interest in making a change.


He could be right. His logic, presumably, is that each of those two schools is in the position of being "little brother" in a major television market that would be of strong interest to other conferences. This was the exact rationale that led to Texas A&M moving out of the Big 12 and into the SEC.


In addition to those two schools, I would think that schools such as Arizona State, Colorado, or Arizona could garner attention. In fact, you might be inclined to believe that Bill Snyder was talking about Colorado when he said that he was aware of two former Big 12 members who "want to come back." Each of them is associated with quality media markets and fertile recruiting grounds that would be attractive to the Big Ten or Big 12.


No matter how it shakes out, it is "game on" with regards to conference realignment and expansion. Hunt or be hunted in the jungle of college football.

http://www.uwdawgpound.com/2016/7/22...texas-oklahoma

Maybe BYU will have more than one suitor.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Meh. Click bait.


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[kccougar]

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[Uncle Ted]

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And JL thought the idea of the Big 12 poaching PAC-whatever teams is click bait.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

P12 is starting to threaten the B12 to be least relevant P5 conference, so the logical move would be for P12 schools to try and join the least relevant one? Somewhere there illogic in there that I'm not smart enough to understand.

[Jeff Lebowski]

And JL thought the idea of the Big 12 poaching PAC-whatever teams is click bait.

I will give you 3 to 1 odds that no P12 team leaves for the B12. Name your wager.

[Uncle Ted]

I will give you 3 to 1 odds that no P12 team leaves for the B12. Name your wager.

A "swish". Be sure to use a large, bold font when you give me those three swish's.