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  1. 9 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

    Well it’s certainly not as nice as the area that surrounds SC.

    No doubt lol. Coming from L.A., generalizing the major city instead of the  actual city bugs me. UCLA is in Westwood, not in Downtown LA. I’m sure the residents of Tempe or Scottsdale don’t say they live in Phoenix. We did business in the old Phoenix area and it was every bit as bad as South Central

  2. 2 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

    I never thought much of the brown city (look at the streets and brownish dust everywhere) known as Tucson, where UA is. It's been a high-crime city for a long time, too.

    Phoenix is overwhelmingly larger, and has some nice areas, including the Tempe (where ASU is) and Scottsdale areas, to name a couple.

    Tucson is a dump for sure, but don’t kid yourself Phoenix is a garden spot. Everyone thinks “Scottsdale & the ‘burbs are nice” but the city of Phoenix is craptacular. And that’s coming from an Arizona resident. There are areas that I have one hand on the wheel and one on a firearm. That said, ASU has the hottest girls hands-down

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  3. 11 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    Basketball.

    Market probably does not matter.  I would think both state schools do about the same in Phoenix.  So many transplants in that town.

    Not to mention the “academic” side, UA is a research university, asu is state university. Or as a prof at a Cal State tried to explain it: “ the UC schools are research, we (Cal State) are the “working schools”. Not like that matters when it comes to athletics (except in the WAC 8, RIP), but there you go. Plus as someone said, UA was ready and willing to dip.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

    How does UCLA plan to get around the California State-Funded travel ban?   Four Big Ten States are on that list.  

    Wait...2 Pac-12 states are on that list as well: AZ and UT.   How is Cal or UCLA able to play games in either of those states?

     

     

     

    Probably get around it by paying for travel thru the sports fund, which is most likely a private entity and not state funded.

    plus Newsome doesn’t obey the ban, so why should they?

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  5. Not to mention there’s that pesky lawsuit that was filed against USC (of course) regarding athletes being considered university employees. That will be the death of traditional (for lack of a better word) college sports and move it straight to farm team status

  6. 2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    If BYU can find 12 opponents as Indy, Stanford definitely can. ND plus ORST, WSU, a California MW school, and others. Scheduling isn’t the concern but how much they can make as Indy. Probably more than BYU but way less than heheh Big XII payment,

    Stanford has seriously deep pockets and wealthy alumni. Plus they manage their finances like a boss, unlike say Cal or other schools deep in debt.

    And again, their school is very locked in with the tech industry in the area.

  7. 16 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said:

    Stanford was already dying in football and the portal killed it. Maybe they can go indy and use their mid tier athletic brand to get enough solid games to get a decent Apple offer

    You may have hit the nail on the head… with Stanford’s Silicon Valley ties, they are the ideal match for Apple

  8. Big12 seems to have all the leverage over the PAC leftovers. A Machiavellian approach would be to offer 1 school (for even numbers), say Arizona, and let the others sweat for the year, then offer them a spot but with lesser payouts. None of the remaining PAC schools seriously move the needle money-wise, so go for the jugular.

    It’s not personal, it’s business…

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  9. Didn’t UA & ASSU go through this crap when they joined the PAC? Wasn’t it a case of:

    UA: Mom, I’m going with my friends

    ABOR: Take your little brother

    UA: Mom… why does he have to go??

    ABOR: He’s your brother, now take him!

  10. 1 minute ago, Dnaguy said:

    Expanding the playoffs made conference championships meaningless.

    It’s heading towards the NFL model of “as long as we get a wild-card berth or better… we’re in the playoffs”.  Sad but true. It will come down to who peaks or gets hot come playoff time

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  11. 16 minutes ago, SurlyGator said:

    I think the B12 should go in the opposite direction on GOR restrictions.  Take away the penalty to leave.  The only destination anyone would leave for would be the B1G or the SEC.  If dropping the exit fee meant you could have Oregon and Washington for a decade or more, and the B1G came calling, wish them well and send them on their way.  In the meantime, you added a lot of value to the B12 during the time they were there.  The networks might even sweeten the pot a little on the front end if they knew they could pull teams out later.

    If you want some sort of "repayment" for the lost value from a team leaving, maybe put in the contract that if a team leaves the B12 gets a percentage of future conference payouts from that team's new conference.  B12 needs to think outside the box here.

    Admittedly I have no clue as to how the conferences think, but would the B12 really want to be a “rebound” choice for the ducks (or any other WAC9 school)?  If the ducks hung around for 10 years, then I could see it. But I guarantee-damn-tee if the B1G came calling in a year or two, they’d dip before hanging up the phone.

    If it was me, I would give them a “take it or shake it” offer locking them in for 10 years with a big buyout penalty. It’s not like they have ND’s (for example) brand value and national following, they aren’t going to move the needle in a huge way dollar-wise. Plus Uncle Phil will just cut a check to get them out of the deal.  It’s not like they have a ton of options since the B1G is hinting they are standing pat at 16, and the SEC isn’t flirting with them.

    It’s an interesting poker game going on.

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  12. 1 hour ago, USC Traveler said:

    President of NW was recently hired away from Eugene Community College, so he’s been a big part of the PAC stupidity himself.

    Wait, whaaaaat? Northwestern hired its president from Whoregon?????  Really. Wow, I’ll have to re-assess my opinion of Northwestern. AAU or not, NU >>> oregon

  13. I am so over this WAC10 or 8 or whatever nonsense.

    Bottom line is, the conference formally known as the PAC is F-U-C-T period. Klownikoff is pulling the old “the check is in the mail” garbage, and the moron schools are buying it. Somebody needed to grow a pair and say “screw this, we’re doing what is in our school’s best interest” (like USC and ucla did) and jump ship before the deadline. They are not getting a deal worth a damn, short of some billionaire stroking out and writing a humongous check. UO & UW are realistically the only schools that would warrant an invite to the big boys table. The rest of the WAC10 brings minimal real value, maybe, MAYBE potential eyeballs during an occasional hot run.

  14. 23 minutes ago, gatormarc said:

    Looks like you left it on broil.

    Just added that to remind anyone clamoring for asu to keep the temps in mind. Come football season it’s not as bad (relative I know), but the first month of the season heat is definitely a factor in the daytime, even with single-digit humidity. How that affects scheduling remains to be seen. The thing that I noticed moving here from SoCal, is that I don’t sweat as much when it gets stupid hot. It’s counter-intuitive, you’d think you’d sweat like a MF, but it’s too hot to sweat. I’ve pounded a gallon of water and nothing. As soon as I go in the AC and cool my body down, then I sweat. Tucson may not be as bad (don’t know, don’t care), but Tempe is an oven.  Teams would have to prepare well in advance for the heat.

  15. 15 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    the probation was for the puto chant

    they have never been disciplined or cited for any behavior on the field or in the stands and it is the shame of the american sports media that they have ignored for the last 25 years

    That was what I thought. A friend and I were talking about the game, and he laughed that the chant went back as far as he could remember. The kids grew up learning that’s what you do on a goal kick. And he was raised in San Diego. 
    My guess is that the organizers, media, and FIFA don’t want to do anything to jeopardize the cash generated by the Mexico team’s fans

  16. 1 hour ago, Hurtlocker said:

    Assuming Colorado and Zona bolt, seems most likely.   At that point though are you better off with Boise or CSU or Fresno?  Or hell, do you elevate and invest in Fullerton, who has like 35-40k students, in Orange county to get more SoCal?

    Id not want to be in their shoes if UC/AC leave, because I doubt the rest will stick together fully.

    If Cal Berkeley & Stanford have any pull at all, there’s no way the bolded schools get in the PAC. For Cal to be lumped in with the Cal State schools will piss off the elites to no end. The Fresnecks have had some success in football (at least in the Pat Hill era), but Fullerton is a commuter school with no football program and some success at baseball. 

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  17. 13 hours ago, Tomatillo said:

    Cannot believe how dirty that team is nor how atrocious their fans are. Every time with the kickoff "cheer' and throwing projectiles on the field. 

    I know I’ll get roasted for this, but having grown up in L.A. and attending numerous soccer games from the 80’s - 2000’s, this behavior is par for the course. I don’t claim to know how it is in other areas, but anytime a Mexican team played it was ummm an experience. We knew to sit up high and not cheer any action. I’ve seen fights, you-name-the-object being hurled, live fireworks tossed into opposing teams sections, and God help you if Americas played Chivas. As bad as it was then, it appears to have gotten way out of hand. Weren’t they on like double-secret probation by FIFA or CONCACAF?

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  18. 17 hours ago, gernblansten said:

    You can fry an egg out there on the city sidewalk 
    You can fry your bacon and and and and 
    I understand why lizards live in sunny Arizona 
    Why people do and call it home I'll never understand

    As we say around here, it weeds out the weak lol

  19. 21 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Seriously, maybe don't give the coach control over a major decision like that? He won't be at CU in 5 years. He'll either succeed and move to a blueblood, or fail and go back to a smaller school or go into marketing or one of the many ways he can make money being Deion Sanders. 

    Does he have any more kids in the pipeline? If so, he will coach long enough to showcase them and get them to the League.

  20. Man, there is a lot of thought and discussion about a guy who really hasn’t proven himself at the major college level. He won some games against HBCU- level schools, but now he is getting attention just because he’s a self-absorbed huckster? If he proves he’s worth the hype (and not just because they sell tickets), then cool. Otherwise, I have no time for this circus.

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  21. 1 hour ago, camel at sea said:

    Yeah.  He's probably taken a bigger reputation beating than any other media personality in this PAC realignment cycle and it's going to get much worse if/when teams start jumping ship.   

    Wait, what? Pete Thamel actually had a reputation? That’s need to anyone with functioning brain cells

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