The Regents and State Legislature will care about potentially losing money and ucla is a state school. The Regents and State Legislature could give ucla a choice: move to Big10 and pay this debt over x years or we go to court and try to stop you’re move and you’re stuck in a dying Pac12.
Ucla is currently getting $33 million from the Pac1…
The Regents and State Legislature will care about potentially losing money and ucla is a state school. The Regents and State Legislature could give ucla a choice: move to Big10 and pay this debt over x years or we go to court and try to stop you’re move and you’re stuck in a dying Pac12.
Ucla is currently getting $33 million from the Pac12? They will be getting $100 million from the Big10. More than enough money to pay off the debt and still come out ahead.
Also, this wouldn’t be forever, just to pay off the stadium debt and give Cal them to recalibrate its finances to cut sports as we make the transition to the less profitable MWC.
Golden: If we move to the Mountain West, just burn Memorial to the ground and start over. As Princess Leia said in Star Wars; "Please Big-10, you are our only hope."
This was all about SC football...that’s it. Now that the B1G got it, there’s zero incentive for them to add any other Pac10 school. Not Oregon, not Washington, not Stanford, and definitely not Cal.
They’re thinking Notre Dame, UVA, UNC, GA Tech, etc.
Maybe we haven't been invited so the Big-10 has some negotiating leverage. With FUCLA and U$C now in, the Big-10 knows how desperate the rest of the Pac-12 is going to be. The LA schools may get $100 million but not the rest of us. I can see a scenario where the Big-10 says; "40-50 million. Take it or leave it". It would be more money than we have been getting and it would guarantee our survival. Knowlton must be shitting his pants right now trying to come up with a plan.
Well, considering how quickly we stopped being UnderArmour's "West Coast Flagship" when uclol got way more money to switch to them, I'm sure we'd take whatever pennies on the dollar we would get to go to the BigOneGee as well.
The Regents and State Legislature will care about potentially losing money and ucla is a state school. The Regents and State Legislature could give ucla a choice: move to Big10 and pay this debt over x years or we go to court and try to stop you’re move and you’re stuck in a dying Pac12.
Ucla is currently getting $33 million from the Pac12? They will be getting $100 million from the Big10. More than enough money to pay off the debt and still come out ahead.
Also, this wouldn’t be forever, just to pay off the stadium debt and give Cal them to recalibrate its finances to cut sports as we make the transition to the less profitable MWC.
Golden: If we move to the Mountain West, just burn Memorial to the ground and start over. As Princess Leia said in Star Wars; "Please Big-10, you are our only hope."
I hope I’m wrong but I don’t see us getting an invite. We will be regulated to a hybrid Pac/MWC going forward.
If the Big10 wanted us they would have invited us yesterday. Ucla and usc completely fucked us.
This was all about SC football...that’s it. Now that the B1G got it, there’s zero incentive for them to add any other Pac10 school. Not Oregon, not Washington, not Stanford, and definitely not Cal.
They’re thinking Notre Dame, UVA, UNC, GA Tech, etc.
Yes it was about USC football but I still think they end up adding west rather than east and take ND/Stanford/UW/Oregon.
Selfishly, I hope they go east and not west as that makes the new Pac10/12 a bit more manageable and appealing than going to the MWC.
Joining with the MWC is worst case scenario.
Absolutely.
A new Pac 12 or 14 with the current Pac12 - SC&UCLA but adding some combination of:
SDSU
Fresno State
Boise State
Colorado State
Nevada
Could possibly work and would be much better than Cal to the current MWC.
Maybe we haven't been invited so the Big-10 has some negotiating leverage. With FUCLA and U$C now in, the Big-10 knows how desperate the rest of the Pac-12 is going to be. The LA schools may get $100 million but not the rest of us. I can see a scenario where the Big-10 says; "40-50 million. Take it or leave it". It would be more money than we have been getting and it would guarantee our survival. Knowlton must be shitting his pants right now trying to come up with a plan.
Well, considering how quickly we stopped being UnderArmour's "West Coast Flagship" when uclol got way more money to switch to them, I'm sure we'd take whatever pennies on the dollar we would get to go to the BigOneGee as well.
That appears to have been an indication of Cal’s lack of standing in these recent events.
I thought Fox Sports brokered this. They're the ones who decided the Bay Area TV market wasn't worth the trouble...
The $C grads at FOX brokered this.
Hmmm... do you perhaps mean 'relegated'? Sadly, I agree with your likely scenario.