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Cal & Stanford should be making this pitch to the Big 10, not the ACC.

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Read this article this morning.

Thought about it all day. All the gloom and doom. And I've decided to come to this decision:

This is the best thing that could have happened to CAL and STANFORD.

Hear me (and my sunshine) out.

PAC12 Football was dying. It's been 20 years since USC won a BCS tittle. Only Oregon and Washington have made the playoff, and neither won a title. All the best west coast recruits (especially QBs) are heading to the SEC, ACC, and B1G. The SouthEast is the epicenter of college football and it's not even close.

The West Coast needed a reboot.

There have been a million words written about all the failures of PAC12 leadership... Larry Scott, GK, The AD's, The Presidents... and this incompetence has adversely affected Cal and Stanford the most.

Apathy in the fan bases, lack of revenue, lose of the national spotlight, programs struggling to find their footing.

We needed a reboot most of all.

Cal and Stanford to the ACC isn't just the best case scenario... it might be the rebirth both programs needed.

With Cal and Furd (and possible SMU) in the ACC, it instantly becomes the premier Academic Conference in the nation.

No one come close.

It's the best cultural fit.

We'd be proud to hang with Duke, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Georgia Tech... and they will be proud to call us their peers.

The ACC is at least tied for 2nd best pedigree in College Football.

Clemson won 2 titles in the playoff era.

Ohio St's one title came right after Florida St won it.

The Noles and The U are legendary programs in the epicenter of College Football.

And this doesn't even take into account the looming presence of Notre Dame.

We could learn a thing or two from these programs. We'd be proud to call them peers.

And when it comes to basketball, the Big12 is now the best conference, but Duke and North Carolina are still the most storied programs.

We'd be in good company.

Of course there will be a lot of work to take the travel burden off the non-revenue sports... but at least they'll exist! We'll sort it out.

Now... let's accept the DOOM SCENARIO that we get ZERO dollars in the media deal. Nothing.

Good.

Stanford has the biggest endowment in the nation and CAL has the biggest and richest alumni base in the nation.

Time to bring those alumni into the fold.

The NIL era has been eye opening. CAL ALUMNI have stepped up and we have a solid NIL program. Stanford too.

So.... let's get them to finance the entire athletic department too.

No big cheesy donors needed (cough... Phil Knight.. cough)... crowd funded like nothing we've ever seen before.

We've been embarrassed and abandoned in realignment. We're on the verge of losing MOST of our intercollegiate sports programs.

Its stings.

So let's rise from the ashes without the burden of the Pac12 and all its failures and back stabbing insecure members.

Let's be free to become the paradigms of West Coast Athletics.

This could be the moment when The University of California Alumni galvanizes and comes together and takes our national sports profile back to the 1950's when it matched our academics.

In the ACC, we'd be free of the U$C's and Oregons. Free of the baggage of the Pac12.

Who cares if we never play Washington and UC Los Angeles again. We're better than them.

We could reboot and rebrand on the national stage with schools we actually respect and align with and 10 years from we could/should be unrecognizable.

Rebrand. Reboot. Rebirth.

Go Bears.

P.S. Please excuse any typos. Bling Pig is a delicious IPA

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