This is like saying San Jose St didn't do enough to get into the SEC. What could the PAC have done? Adding lesser teams as you mention? Would you have hailed that as a great accomplishment prior to today's news? Doubtful. The only way to improve (some of) the PAC-12 schools positions is what's happening, basically breaking up the conf…
This is like saying San Jose St didn't do enough to get into the SEC. What could the PAC have done? Adding lesser teams as you mention? Would you have hailed that as a great accomplishment prior to today's news? Doubtful. The only way to improve (some of) the PAC-12 schools positions is what's happening, basically breaking up the conference, and I don't see a conference leadership team wanting to destroy it's own conference. If this UCLA USC move were not happening, and the intact PAC-12 made it to 2024 with a new tv contract probably paying double what they get today, that would have been the best case scenario for the conference. We would still have been behind the SEC & B1G in dollars, and would have continued the slide down the competitiveness ladder, but still could pop into the CFP every few years, delaying the inevitable superconferences rising for a decade or so. The only current deal that would have benefited Cal sports would have been a (PAC-12 self-immolating) package sending UW (tv market #12), UofO (#21), Cal & Stanford (#6), & the LA schools (#2) to the B1G. Short of that, the PAC had no moves.
This is like saying San Jose St didn't do enough to get into the SEC. What could the PAC have done? Adding lesser teams as you mention? Would you have hailed that as a great accomplishment prior to today's news? Doubtful. The only way to improve (some of) the PAC-12 schools positions is what's happening, basically breaking up the conference, and I don't see a conference leadership team wanting to destroy it's own conference. If this UCLA USC move were not happening, and the intact PAC-12 made it to 2024 with a new tv contract probably paying double what they get today, that would have been the best case scenario for the conference. We would still have been behind the SEC & B1G in dollars, and would have continued the slide down the competitiveness ladder, but still could pop into the CFP every few years, delaying the inevitable superconferences rising for a decade or so. The only current deal that would have benefited Cal sports would have been a (PAC-12 self-immolating) package sending UW (tv market #12), UofO (#21), Cal & Stanford (#6), & the LA schools (#2) to the B1G. Short of that, the PAC had no moves.