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https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024/01/as-ncaa-landscape-evolves-oregon-state-and-wsu-stay-flexible-and-play-their-cards-perfectly.html
 

The NCAA grants a two-year waiver to conferences that have been whacked by realignment, allowing the OSU and WSU football programs to exist under the Pac-12 banner in the 2024-25 seasons.

 
 

Starting in the fall of 2026, the Beavers and Cougars must relocate or rebuild.

 
 

In the current environment, two-and-a-half years feels like a decade.

 
 

By 2026, the ACC or Big 12 might have determined its current structure is suboptimal.

 
 

By 2026, athletes might be deemed employees by the National Labor Relations Board.

 
 

By 2026, the power conferences might have lost a multibillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit.

 
 

By 2026, the NCAA might have approved president Charlie Baker’s proposal to create a new football subdivision that requires an eight-figure commitment and divides the sport.

 
 

By 2026, the structure of major college football could be undergoing a massive transformation -- not only a new poker hand but a different poker game.

The moment the Bay Area schools fled to the ACC and locked themselves into a 12-year agreement with a conference in tumult, the Beavers and Cougars took the opposite approach.

 
 

They remained as flexible as possible.

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On 2/21/2024 at 10:49 AM, KUGRDON said:

 

Since 1990 only 3 non current SEC+B1G membered programs have won a natty, FSU, Miami, Clemson, and they are all desperate to get out of the ACC.If a team from the SECB1G wins it each of the next 10 years will anyone be surprised? The B1GSEC programs own 26 of the last 32 championships going back to Colorado's joke of a title in 1990. 

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On 2/21/2024 at 7:07 PM, dtd said:

Since 1990 only 3 non current SEC+B1G membered programs have won a natty, FSU, Miami, Clemson, and they are all desperate to get out of the ACC.If a team from the SECB1G wins it each of the next 10 years will anyone be surprised? The B1GSEC programs own 26 of the last 32 championships going back to Colorado's joke of a title in 1990. 

What about Texas in 05?   And didn’t Oklahoma get the 04 title when SC vacated, or is that not how it works?

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On 2/28/2024 at 12:13 PM, Orange said:

Sorry, can’t keep up with the monopolization of all mega-entities in America.  Can’t wait for the. Albertsons/Kroger conference that includes Florida, Ukraine, USC, Taiwan, and Uranus.  

There's an argument that conferences should have something in common, some deep connection.  Perhaps a better combination would be Florida, Texas, the remaining parts of the old Soviet Union, MAGA counties in Oregon, and the Federal and New York prison systems.  Applications for membership also will be taken from the psychiatric control centers in Palm Beach, FL and Bedminster, NJ.

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On 2/28/2024 at 12:45 PM, EastCoastFan said:

There's an argument that conferences should have something in common, some deep connection.  Perhaps a better combination would be Florida, Texas, the remaining parts of the old Soviet Union, MAGA counties in Oregon, and the Federal and New York prison systems.  Applications for membership also will be taken from the psychiatric control centers in Palm Beach, FL and Bedminster, NJ.

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Looks like OSU and WSU are close to signing with CW for a football TV deal. Take it with a grain of salt because it's from Canzano. Interesting part of this is both schools would have to produce their own games. The P12 has said the P12 network goes dark after Spring football games this year. But if both schools own those assets, I'm guessing they can do what they want.

 

"WSU president Kirk Schulz has hinted for a number of weeks that they were close on announcing a partner and it would appear they’ve now found one. John Canzano is reporting the schools are close to a deal with The CW to carry their football games for at least the 2024 season. It would require the schools to produce the games themselves, an even more important reason to have held on to the Pac-12 Network, which can now serve to do just that."

 

https://www.cougcenter.com/2024/3/26/24112917/pac-12-the-cw-acc-football-osu-beavers-wsu-cougars

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On 12/22/2023 at 12:18 PM, Orange said:

 

For starters, who said that Oregon State wasn't extended and offer?  Maybe Oregon State refused an offer to join the ACC.

To that end, the author of this filing fails to recognize that over history, Cal and Stanford have had more national appeal to the general viewing audience than Oregon State.

But who cares?  The ACC didn't need Cal, Stanford, Oregon State or Washington State.  None of those four were going to impact the ACC's viewership, attendance numbers, and etc.  The ACC didn't need any of those schools.  The ACC simply chose to extend a charitable offer to Cal and Stanford.

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On 1/25/2024 at 12:03 AM, Orange said:

They remained as flexible as possible.

And for good reason, because they're going to need to be able to flexible enough to bend over and take it up their backside.

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