RIP Pac-12

Here is what will eventually happen:

1. Football breaks away from the NCAA. The top 50-60 schools move on and created their own league.

2. The teams will be affiliated with the schools, meaning they have the colors, the unis, the mascots, but the players will not be required to be students at the school.

3. Those programs left behind, and the nonrevenue sports will move back to a more geographically sane conference alignment.

4. There will be HUGE title ix implications since football is no longer part of the athletic department in the large schools. (No grant in aid to 80+ male fballers= no title ix implications.)

Consolidate and monopolize = Big businesses takeover of the US collegiate athletic system.

Pac 8 then 10 then 12. 100 years of tradition gone due to greed and mismanagement from university presidents, NCAA, major sports networks.

My Dad competed in the Pac 8, I competed in the Pac 10 and my kids competed in the Pac 12. Very very sad outcome.

I can’t really fault the major sports networks as they are doing what business does in maximizing profits and to the winners goes the spoils everyone else be dammed.

It is the universities and the NCAA and conferences mismanagement and their greed that over time pulled away from what sport and education was all about.

If I ever thought that Divisions II and III are doing college athletics right, it is now.

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'American Football' or tackle as I like to call it, IS indeed RELIGION in 'Merica! ;-)

I didn't see anyone post about Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah to the Big XII yet. Only four remain.

Arizona ---> Big XII
Arizona State ---> Big XII
California
Colorado -- Big XII
Oregon ---> Big 10
Oregon State
Stanford
UCLA ---> Big 10
USC ---> Big 10
Utah ---> Big XII
Washington ---> Big 10
Washington State

https://www.si.com/college/westvirginia/big-12/big-12-officially-adds-three-pac-12-schools

Regionality of completion and rivalries gone.

Try being a STUDENT athlete and crisscrossing the nation to compete all the while studying (first and foremost) getting enough sleep and being part of student life.

The experience of being a student athlete is life changing and not easy. Finding balance is key to successful completion of both endeavors. Navigating those experiences makes for a person who can draw upon failures, accomplishments, dedication, sacrifices, euphoria, friendships and knowledge that make for better decisions and outcomes in personal and business life and societal greater good.

I fear balance has been lost. Perhaps it was lost long ago with football then basketball professional monitization.

College sport is being monetized at an alarming rate and the casualties of many other sports is sadly inevitable. With that, each potential bright light of a student athlete ( in the true sense of those two words) is being snuffed out by organizational greed over football and basketball TV rights and profits.

Correction: Competition and rivalries

For me personally, I doubt I ever would have started college without the bait of a track scholarship, and I really NEEDED that scholarship money. I'm from a family that falls right in the middle, too poor to just write tuition checks, but make too much to qualify for any government grants, etc..

I hope the rest of us in the nonrevenue areas will not just be thrown out since we dont attract TV money, big gate receipts, etc.. If football ever does just move on, this could be a good thing for us. The schools will no longer have to deal with cramming that square peg of a semi pro sport into the round hole of amateur college athletics.

People Are Crazy

Tell that to softball fans in Oklahoma, volleyball fans in Nebraska and Wisconsin, and basketball fans in Connecticut.

The problem with Stanford is that they have so many national championships that winning another NCAA title is no longer special to their fans. They lost the Elite Eight match in volleyball in half empty Maples last year. That's unimaginable in Lincoln or Madison.

Maybe they start caring about their teams if they stop winning the championships year after year after year.

It would be nice for the NCAA to propose conferences alignment for non-revenue sports. Mostly soccer, baseball, and any other sports that requires inter-conference play.

Times have changed. My dad lost his head when Penn State joined the Big Ten, even though personally I didn't think his alma mater (Northwestern) didn't belong. He's no longer around, but if he was stuff like this would have sent him over the edge.

Sounds like an incredible opportunity. Those that get to do that are very lucky.

Hah, Schumacher is back in his home conference, which will ironically make Big 10s a lot harder for Wisconsin to win.

Travel for Basketball, Volleyball etc. was really easy for the Old Pac 8/10.

e.g. fly to LA area, play USC on Thursday , play UCLA Saturday, fly home Sunday morning.

The schools were naturally paired for such double headers with minimal travel.

Cal/Stanford, U of Az/ASU, UO/OSU, WSU/UW. Only 1 time zone difference in AZ (and maybe that was neutralized since AZ does not go Daylight Saving Time

Maybe there are some natural doubleheader's in the BiG10 (NU/Uof IL) but there are some black holes, like State College Penn State is a pain to fly into.

The PAC12 went super woke and now many of those teams and super broke. Always a trail of destruction with the left. They all misplayed the fake Covid nonsense.

LMFAO! Goodbye liberal bs league!

Maybe loads of schools would trade their pasts to get Stanford's but few Power Five schools would trade their present for Stanford's. There's not a lot of revenue generated by winning a national championship in tennis or water polo. And not many fans of a school with a football team that goes 4-8 will be fine with such a season because their school won the Director's Cup. Fans of college sports care quite a lot about football, slightly less but still a lot about basketball, and quite a bit less but still a little about baseball. People who care about other sports, track, tennis, swimming, etc., almost always have some personal connection to those sports, e.g., did the sport themselves, have a kid in the school doing that sport, and so on.