Thx for the link. That was awesome.

I’ve been reading a lot of Tweets and such about how the travel will play out.  It made me think back to Matt Leinert’s last season with the Trojans, when you couldn’t watch a game without the commentators reminding us the only class he was taking that  semester was ballroom dancing. I know that was because he had basically already graduated, but the point is it got me thinking  the schools will find a way to allow players to either opt out of classes or take a very light load. Heck, I could even seem them finding a way to call it an internship of some kind and give them class credits for that. In this new landscape, who knows?

Thx for posting. I've read a lot of other articles not worth posting so it's nice to get something that includes good commentary with references to relevant info that has been posted.   

DuckInTheMountains wrote:

Good article, for sure.  But if the PAC somehow survives (maybe by poaching half the Big 12), and the whole B1G thing blows up on USC/UCLA, would you want them back 8-10 years from now?  I wouldn't.

If your hot wife decides to run off and be a prostitute for 10 years and it doesn't work out well for her, would you want her back after that?

 Hmmmm, never thought of it that way..LOL...My hope is everytime we play UCLA and U$C we run up the score if at all possible. No way, if this implodes, do I want either of them back.

oldretiredguy wrote:

 Hmmmm, never thought of it that way..LOL...My hope is everytime we play UCLA and U$C we run up the score if at all possible. No way, if this implodes, do I want either of them back.

Well, they abandoned principles and prior commitments and went in pursuit of money, right? If that's not prostitution.... 

Of course, if one doesn't have a hot wife to begin with, the analogy falls flat!

DucksReign wrote:

I could not agree more with this columnist.

PennLive: Here’s hoping this USC/UCLA-Big Ten merger careens off the track, crashes and burns | Jones.
https://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/2022/07/heres-hoping-this-uscucla-big-ten-merger-careens-off-the-track-crashes-and-burns-jones.html

The fact of the matter is that college football on the West Coast is not religion.  It is entertainment in a fair weather culture.  Most games in the P12 do not sell out.  Stadium capacities much smaller and geography much larger which inhibits folks from traveling to away games.  The presidents of the schools know this and have had a “catch as catch can” attitude towards football for the better part of the 21st Century.  They hired and enabled a country club executive who was not a football fan to run the conference with Silicon Valley values and attitude.  Never taken seriously by the other conferences or by the media execs.  So what do the LA schools do?  Instead of leaning hard on the commish and other schools to close the gap in revenue sharing as best as possible in this environment, they sell out to a network exec promising millions of dollars in exchange for what?  Road games in New Jersey and Maryland?  Hosting a conference clash with Iowa?  These schools never gave GK the time nor trust to figure this out and it may have cost not just the conference, but the sport overall.  FWIW, I hope Oregon and Washington hold their own and hold this conference together somehow…