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  1. Stadium is too. Hard to believe it was worth saving. More likely, they just didn't want to relocate any other departments to find a new site.
  2. So in other words, Rush fans are as delusional as Pac 12 presidents?!
  3. Another note about Iowa St. They LEAD the nBig 12 in attendance over the last 4 years. Over 58k.
  4. At some point realignment jumps the shark. I think we are here.
  5. Still in denial. SDSU was an upgrade over CU? Big 12 was better only because of numbers (BYU,UC,UCF,UH had comparable TV ratings to Pac other than UW/Oregon and better than some)? And I don't believe for a minute Arizona was going to take that awful Apple deal. Maybe the ASU president was dumb enough. But Washington and Oregon certainly weren't. Arizona had already been accepted by the Big 12.
  6. TCU, Tech and Baylor might as well be in Colorado as far as publicity in Houston. They needed UofH. They were completely out of Houston.
  7. Maybe Craig knows a powerful ESPN exec who had a run-in with hookers?!
  8. Dignity and SMU in the same sentence on a sports board? What would CJK5H say?
  9. Things are starting to get surreal. SMU & Stanford to ACC?!
  10. Since the Ivy League won't do big time sports, Penn gets involved in big time gambling!!!! (yes, I know its not Penn U.)
  11. Maybe they could put her on political stuff. I don't watch that.
  12. I thought most winos just drank straight from the bottle. But you did see people with Tbird passed out everywhere.
  13. Most schools have some local appeal. Its only a few like Vanderbilt that don't. But Vandy gets other schools' fans to come.
  14. I'm with you. And it makes even less sense for Cal and Stanford. But then, they are a major part of the reason the Pac will cease to exist.
  15. But they wanted to affiliate with Pedo St. and Michigan St. along with the school that enabled Lawrence Phillips. I guess they wanted to be with schools that avoided getting punished.
  16. Well Franklin also wanted to avoid his Vandy players getting arrested for rape. Think he probably interfered more in that particular case than Briles ever did in any single case. Guess he's a good fit for Pedo St. Those of us old enough remember how Paterno avoided playing Texas in the Cotton Bowl and then whined when Texas remained at #1 after beating Notre Dame.
  17. I think if you kill the rivalries, you kill what makes college football special. It is what has made the SEC valuable. And it makes schools in the Big 10 other than Ohio St., Michigan and Penn St. valuable. And it drives attendance, which still matters to revenue. I think Penn St. is nuts not to try to keep Ohio St. every year.
  18. Some Cal people are still complaining about Mack Brown.
  19. "ESPN, Fox and CBS all put in last-minute bids for packages of Pac-12 games. But the bids all came in way lower than the conference wanted. How low? Commissioner George Kliavkoff only presented the conference's presidents with Apple TV's bid last week. Fox's bid was for a package of just 13 football games, for which it said it would pay around $35-$40 million per year. Fox's bid, essentially, was for what it considered part of the conference's "B" package. ESPN had offered a significant package to the conference more than a year ago -- one that the conference's university presidents rejected. ESPN ended up cutting a deal with the Big 12, and while it remained involved with the Pac-12, it only put in a small bid for Pac-12 rights within the past few weeks. CBS also engaged with the Pac-12 over the past couple of weeks, but it only put forward a bid for a handful of basketball games -- around five in total. Sources had expected ESPN and Amazon to share the Pac-12's "A" package. But as it turned out, Amazon never submitted a bid. Neither did NBC. The delay from last year, when ESPN, Fox and CBS were willing to do a deal, to last week, when all three put forth small bids, was devastating to the Pac-12. A changing media landscape -- with shrinking subscriber numbers and employee layoffs -- caused the networks to be much more disciplined in where to spend their money than they have in the past. Similarly, Wall Street hit the streamers hard as shares fell once bankers started prioritizing profits over subscriber growth and caused deep-pocketed companies like Amazon and Apple to also become more disciplined in how much they spend on sports rights...." https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/Newsletter-Media/2023/08/07.aspx
  20. Again, what difference does 7 in 15 matter vs. 7 in 14? And if you let Iowa be the only one with 3, does anyone really care that it is 6 in 14 for them instead of 7 in 14? Makes scheduling a little trickier, but not much.
  21. With their debt, they probably ought to join WSU and OSU for a few years to get the basketball credits.
  22. Good decision. Besides the difficulty in finding someone to pay for them, they need to sit down and figure out a lot of stuff out with 4 new schools this year and 4 the next.
  23. I guess you don't do Big 10. Iowa-Minnesota has been played 116 times. Except for war back to the double naughts every year. The whole Iowa-Minnesota-Wisconsin trio is a big group of rivalries. Nebraska-Iowa is just because nobody cares about Nebraska in the Big 10. Kind of the Mizzou of the Big 10, but not as bad.
  24. Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan St. will fight tooth and nail. I don't think Illinois and Purdue really care that much, but the schools are close. Is 2-7 really much different from 1-8? You get everyone 7 in 15 years instead of 7 in 14. Iowa is the only school with 3 fixed games-Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska. Maybe they are willing to give up Wisconsin.
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