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CFB: Did the Pac-12 blow it?

widmerseyebrow : 9/23/2024 7:31 pm

Memphis, UTSA, Tulane, and South Florida were widely expected to be the next group of schools to join the newly constituted Pac-12. Instead today they issued a joint statement to reaffirm their membership to the AAC.

Left scrambling the aftermath, the Pac-12 extended membership offers to Utah State and UNLV, who was snubbed in the initial group of four Mountain West defections (Boise, Fresno State, San Diego State, and Colorado State).

It sounds like Utah State has accepted while UNLV declined as they stand to take a large chunk of the $100m in buyout fees from the departing schools to remain in the MWC. Air Force is also now expected to remain. The Gonzaga basketball deal is also supposedly dead.

I feel like this is far from done.
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I thought the Big 12 would be the big loser

BillT : 9/23/2024 7:37 pm : link

But they did ok. The PAC 12 looks like a goner to me not that I know that much about the inside stuff.

This should have never come to this...

bw in dc : 9/23/2024 7:43 pm : link

if former Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff wasn't such a moron in negotiating a real media deal that would have kept the conference together.

Banks : 9/23/2024 8:09 pm : link

Pac-12 is dead. You can call it that, but no Ucla, Oregon, Washington, USC, California, etc.. ? Meh. The conference alignments are messed up these days, but it will never go back to what it was

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Bill in UT : 9/23/2024 8:45 pm : link

In comment 16621757 Banks said:

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Pac-12 is dead. You can call it that, but no Ucla, Oregon, Washington, USC, California, etc.. ? Meh. The conference alignments are messed up these days, but it will never go back to what it was

Is Utah chopped liver? They're at #10 in the AP and Coaches polls, ahead of everyone you mentioned except Oregon

Banks : 9/23/2024 8:49 pm : link

Lol, no. My apologies. I love Utah. At some point I just gave up listing teams. Very nice win this weekend btw

Maybe they did from a business perspective

Jerry in_DC : 9/23/2024 8:55 pm : link

But I'd rather see the Pac 10 have schools from Nevada and Utah than schools from Tennessee, Florida, and Louisiana. Hopefully they can get enough western schools to make up the numbers.