I still believe this is the reason the other conferences are disappearing the PAC. https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ng-blueprint-future-college-football-progress
Now that the recruiting calendar has ruined National Signing Day, everyone should have an extra day of no (or neglected) work to spend on days like this going forward
canzano’s latest article says that colorado state and a “fourth unknown school” (along with sdsu and SMU) are who the pac-12 has honed in on for expansion
If football is all that matters how is it not Boise? And if like being rich or smart is there even an option?
Adding those 3 plus whatever else would make the big 12 adding UCF look like a master stroke in comparison.
ESPN need to get some of the Pac schools into the ACC. Bump up the rights deal and try to keep the big hitters in the conference happy. I’d be trying to keep Oregon and Washington away from the B1G if I’m them. Would Stanford and Cal sniff their noses up at the ACC?
ESPN has no reason to do anything with the ACC - those teams are stuck until 2036. It’s literally a steal of a deal for ESPN at this point.
This is true but if the financial disparity gets as bad as expected, schools will look for an exit by hook or by crook. There’s one more rights round before the ACC gets another go- things will come to a head eventually as the sums don’t make sense. This achieves a few things. You stop Oregon and Washington going with the B1G, you cement a late night game of the week and you make it harder for the Superconference thing to proceed. I actually don’t understand why ESPN helped finance Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC. They had a great thing going with CFB as it was.
they don’t want to make it harder for super conferences… and they don’t care if the field product suffers for fsu and clemson vs what they’re paying for the tv rights
I don’t think they are that concerned about Oregon and Washington going to the Big Ten. If they cared that much about Oregon and Washington, they would be trying to get the Pac 12 rights.
my suspicion is that the pac-12 adds SMU and SDSU and the schools sign a <5 year grant of rights and nothing else happens until FSU and clemson can wiggle their way out of the ACC in like 7 years
wow no respect for real journalism. good luck finding accurate realignment news on the Clinton news network, idiot
The fourth should obviously be Utah and not SDSU but the AZ schools and Colorado are without doubt a value add for the conference.
I like his cockiness. I imagine this is would it would be like if Slovenia started to really get touristy and was like “eat my ass Lithuania, we are coming for your resorts”.