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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4344068, member: 1414"] And yet here we are. Aside from the Big 10, academic prestige no longer matters. The Pac has always been in a precarious position, because the value of games played in their time zone is simply lower. They also have a vast buffer of sparsely populated land between their population centers and the rest of the country. It was always viewed as being somewhat protective, but also limiting. They were foolish to reject Texas and OU. I'm sure the Big 12 would love to jettison UCF and BYU. I think Cinci and Houston are strong enough. But they don't want Oregon State or Washington State. So Colorado, Utah and the Arizona schools need to decide whether they stay in the Pac, and possibly see it lose UW, Oregon, Stanford or Cal, or they move on to what would be a better geographic and possibly cultural fit for them. Colorado's old football glory came from McCartney recruiting LA better than the LA schools did. Hasn't been the case in a long time. Lately, UT and OU have been strong recruiting SoCal, and I suspect the B1G wants to tap that recruiting area and shift it to their schools to better compete with the SEC. [/QUOTE]