They don't add serious TV revenue and they aren't close to being compatible academically. It would be better for CAL/STANFORD to go Independent for a few seasons. The USC/UCLA departure was a disaster. Staying in the Pac12 if it becomes some sort of 2nd rate conference would be a terminal mistake from which we would never recover and never survive.
They don't add serious TV revenue and they aren't close to being compatible academically. It would be better for CAL/STANFORD to go Independent for a few seasons. The USC/UCLA departure was a disaster. Staying in the Pac12 if it becomes some sort of 2nd rate conference would be a terminal mistake from which we would never recover and never survive.
There's the math: do these programs lift the value of the media rights share to the ten legacy members? The other factor is the university presidents. I think there's some hubris from some of the other schools that these schools do not rise to reputational level of their own campuses.
And, sadly, I don't even know if the PAC 12 could convince the top half of the Mountain West to join at this point when they know the remaining PAC 12 teams will leave as soon as the right deal is offered to them. Would the MWC teams jump ship knowing the newly reconstituted PAC 12 has a half life of a couple years? There really appears to be no path forward in which the conference remains intact.
There is no auto-playoff spot for the PacтАФit's the top 6 conference champs from any conference. SoтАФin theoryтАФMW teams have at least as good a shot at the playoff in their current conference. Obviously the (soon-to-be) current setup biases power conferences, but who knows what the Pac will look like (or be perceived as) in a couple years.
They don't add serious TV revenue and they aren't close to being compatible academically. It would be better for CAL/STANFORD to go Independent for a few seasons. The USC/UCLA departure was a disaster. Staying in the Pac12 if it becomes some sort of 2nd rate conference would be a terminal mistake from which we would never recover and never survive.
We don't want to go down with that ship.
There's the math: do these programs lift the value of the media rights share to the ten legacy members? The other factor is the university presidents. I think there's some hubris from some of the other schools that these schools do not rise to reputational level of their own campuses.
And, sadly, I don't even know if the PAC 12 could convince the top half of the Mountain West to join at this point when they know the remaining PAC 12 teams will leave as soon as the right deal is offered to them. Would the MWC teams jump ship knowing the newly reconstituted PAC 12 has a half life of a couple years? There really appears to be no path forward in which the conference remains intact.
The MWC would come, even it was only on temporary basis so long as it meant the Px kept its auto playoff spot for at least the next 5 or so years.
There is no auto-playoff spot for the PacтАФit's the top 6 conference champs from any conference. SoтАФin theoryтАФMW teams have at least as good a shot at the playoff in their current conference. Obviously the (soon-to-be) current setup biases power conferences, but who knows what the Pac will look like (or be perceived as) in a couple years.
Agreed. The Pac-12 is a slow motion train wreck.