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Probably a little sweat it out moment. Though I believe I read somewhere that McMurphy a few days ago said that their contract with Fox/ESPN calls for ESPN to pay full share for 4 schools and Fox only 2 which I guess could make some sense if Fox wanted to be petty about Michael Crow/ASU throwing out that last minute roadblock in their plan.

Would gladly trade ASU being left behind in favor of Oregon St & Washington St.

. This about sums up the course of events this morning.

Was this all a Kirk Schulz psy-op campaign?

The Pac presidents are to blame for the collapse of the conference. They are the ones who have for decades ran the conference like a country club while everyone else was running it like a business, they (Stanford) are the ones who blocked Texas from joining, they are the ones who hired Larry Scott and then refused to hold him accountable and for the longest time refused (Crow...) to remove him when it was beyond obvious he was causing irreparable harm to the conference. They failed to see the landscape changing in front of them and as the saying goes adapt or perish and the conference never adapted.

Washington has gotten too comfortable with those 9pm start times.

I think chances are higher that Arizona joins the B1G then Notre Dame.

2 down, 36 more to go.

Whether now or later this was always the future once UCLA/SC left.

So after a year the best offer available is the Pac-12 Network part deux?

We can't leave yet. We still have 37 more board meetings to schedule.

Not sure what stalling is going to do but at least it will give them time to put out another unity statement.

Settlement = giving Oregon and Washington what they want when they have no leverage and every desire to leave the rest in the dirt the first chance they get.. This is making the same mistake the ACC schools are doing. Schools not named Utah are sacrificing revenue and getting nothing in return for it.

Colorado might make some sort of sense for that but why would Arizona of any school in the Pac-12 oppose unequal revenue sharing in basketball?

Common sense should have told otherwise. NBC was never signing up for weekly contests between Indiana vs Maryland and Minnesota vs UCLA.

Would love to know what made Ohio St, Michigan and Penn St believe NBC was breaking the bank to sign on for a prime game every week that didn't involve them in the most crucial month of the football season.

They have been doing it successfully for years and now that Captain Cheeto has a death grip on the GOP its only going to get more brazen. The collection of trash that worships all things Trump would actively cheer him on if he were caught killing babies on the front lawn of Mar a lago.

P12 leadership is naïve enough to believe this could be a realistic option. Realistically watch how quickly the gloves would come off for the B1G if they thought there was any chance that UCLA was wavering in its decision to leave the P12. They would no longer care about being viewed as a conference killer and invite Oregon/Washington.

I'm past the point where I think trying him in court would actually accomplish anything. There are simply too many idiots and cultists out there lurking in the shadows where I would have zero faith that one of them wouldn't end up on the jury or in the judge's chair him/her self.

The B1G & the Pac12 have always over valued the research component, we could talk about how it shouldn't be a factor but it clearly is with the powers that be. Whenever you hear someone mentioning "academics" when it comes to conference alignment that is always referring to research whether that is research restrictions (see BYU being blacklisted) or research funding (see why they didn't want anyone else from the Big 12).

Take control of the NCAA tournament where the NCAA hoards the majority of the billion dollar a year revenue stream and that 15% jumps to 30-35% on average and for some schools that are basketball-centric a potentially bigger jump.

I would disagree with football only as everything they do is in the chase for the dollar. Its only a matter of time before they run out of ways to increase revenue through football and begin making a push to break the NCAA tournament from the grip of the NCAA.

WVU is to the ACC what BYU is to the Pac12 a school that fits geographically but one the conference has absolutely no interest in associating with. The Arizona schools had never reached out to the Big 12 about joining them. They would never have voluntarily separated themselves from California No one is or was leaving the Big Ten and its paydays for the Big 12. Not before OU & Texas left and certainly not after.