The PAC 10 expansion groundswell

[MartyFunkhouser]

RIP Pac12. Sorry Larry Scott murdered you. You deserved a better fate.

[USUC]

RIP Pac12. Sorry Larry Scott murdered you. You deserved a better fate.

It got the fate it most assuredly deserved.

[falafel]

RIP Pac12. Sorry Larry Scott murdered you. You deserved a better fate.

Larry Scott didn’t help, but I think the blame more correctly rests with the PAC 12 fan bases. If they don’t care about their own teams, why should TV networks and advertisers?

[old_gregg]

Has the first shoe dropped?? I've been assured thru the last 100 pages of this thread that Az/co/uw/Oregon/asu are days away from announcing that they are out. Where is uncle Ted to clear this up!

to be fair, it did take 28 days

[old_gregg]

What?!? You missed all the action!! Like the time when Colorado left for the BIGXII, and the time when AZ left for the BIGXII, and the time when Oregon and Washington were both "Cleared" to join the BIG10, and the time when the PAC was forced to extend invites to SDSU, SMU, CSU, and UNLV (with Fresno waiting in the wings), and the time when the media deal was announced and the numbers were WAY below/above the BIGXII.

As usual, we have Twitter-famous folks to thank for the breaking news.

oof

[old_gregg]

“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.”

SEC!!!

just memorializing a few of these for posterity

[Jeff Lebowski]

[myboynoah]

[falafel]

almost a PERFECT record of predictions.

[All-American]

just memorializing a few of these for posterity

Hey man, I’m looking at the calendar right now and it clearly says August 4. So, he wins.

[old_gregg]

By 2026? Haha. Nobody can predict anything three years ahead. What a loser.

what about six weeks?

[YOhio]

Know who is happy about the PAC12 dying? China. Because now we won't have any more research in America.

[old_gregg]

Know who is happy about the PAC12 dying? China. Because now we won't have any more research in America.

today millions of future aau scholars' voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

[Joe Public]

You are groveling in ant shit. And believing what you want to believe, as is your wont.

Looks like the Big 12 deal's present value is $30 million a year per team, at most. Six year term. Assuming worst case scenario for the Pac 12, what's the delta between what it will get and the Big 12? 10%? 20%? It doesnt' matter. But probably not near that. Like AJ says, the present is just stop gap, everything is fluid. The Pac 12 teams are not thinking about a million or two more this year or next. That's nothing. They're interested in the benefit to their brands of being associated with west coast elites or (as far as the west coast elites are concerned, with one another), they are posturing for further consolidation (as to which Big 12 membership would provide no advantage), and they are factoring in the expanded tournament and the best way to access it.

If things are as dire for the Pac 12 as the desperate Big 12 loyalists propagandize (Conzano has a column today that says it's more disinformation), it should really be obvious that no Pac 12 team would be interested in the Big 12 even if our country were hit by an atom bomb and the B1 and SEC were vaporaized. I know it hurts to not be wanted, but face the facts. Jeez. It should be plain as the nose on your face that whatever is the best deal the Pac can make, its teams are simply not interested in joining S-Town, er, I mean the Big 12.

SUwish!

[Bo Diddley]

Know who is happy about the PAC12 dying? China. Because now we won't have any more research in America.

today millions of future aau scholars' voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced