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Oregon and USC to the Big Ten?!?
It gets crazier by the day!
Personally I would rather see(hope) the Pac-12 could expand before teams start leaving.
I would not like Oregon going to the Little Ten for more reasons than I want to share here, but without question it is "open season" on conference realignment.
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Re: Oregon and USC to the Big Ten?!?
DucksReign wrote:
It gets crazier by the day!
Personally I would rather see(hope) the Pac-12 could expand before teams start leaving.
I would not like Oregon going to the Little Ten for more reasons than I want to share here, but without question it is "open season" on conference realignment.
That is just insane. I guess money is all that matters. I'm losing interest daily.
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Re: Oregon and USC to the Big Ten?!?
John McClain, a respected reporter out of TN, just floated a desire to see KU, Baylor, TT, and TCU join Colorado, Utah, and the AZ schools in a PAC-16 East Division.
I would like to see us grab Boise State, UNLV, KU, and TCU, but I doubt that happens. We would add a great basketball blur blood and markets in Boise, Dallas-Ft. Worth, and Vegas, where we should move the PAC headquarters anyway...
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Re: Oregon and USC to the Big Ten?!?
The whole sport right now is migrating from a college past time into a pro league complete with NILs, free agency and TV contracts. If for any reason an athletic department in these super conferences ever claim to operate at a loss from this time forward, I will be stunned. I am even to the point where I would expect that athletic departments become divorced from university business and funding, the only thing tying them together anymore being a logo and the expectation that these student-athletes attend and pass classes. I think I have officially hit geezer status...
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The whole sport right now is migrating from a college past time into a pro league complete with NILs, free agency and TV contracts. If for any reason an athletic department in these super conferences ever claim to operate at a loss from this time forward, I will be stunned. I am even to the point where I would expect that athletic departments become divorced from university business and funding, the only thing tying them together anymore being a logo and the expectation that these student-athletes attend and pass classes. I think I have officially hit geezer status...
Welcome to my world 
..This geezer agrees with you on divorcing athletics from Colleges, at least football. Let the NFL pay the bills.
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Re: Oregon and USC to the Big Ten?!?
1) USC being a private school(ditto on Stanford) probably has the most flexibility financially of choosing a conference.
2) One issue in all of this is whether it is for football only(85% of college sports revenue) or all sports? The Pac-12 right now doesn't need any "help" in being competitive nationally in any sport other than football.
3) I don't like the idea of going "down" a conference to expand but teams from the Mountain West make some sense. Boise State is a one-trick pony(football) and nobody recruits Idaho.
I would rather see Oregon play San Diego State in football than Rutgers(Little Ten).
If the Pac-12 wanted to keep a semblance of its geographical balance...if that is even important...then adding Colorado State and Utah State along with KU / KSU or TCU / Baylor(or TT) might work...them we have a lock on the major state colleges in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas OR 2 good Texas colleges. We would own the western 1/3 of the USA!
The problem is adding CSU, Utah State and Kansas does nothing to upgrade football...Baylor / TCU / TT is better football-wise.
4) My intuition tells me any Pac-12 expansion is more or less a football decision. In that context then TCU, Baylor, TT and Oklahoma State seem the best choices.
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