Colorado joining is great for us. Colorado and Arizona joining together is terrible for us.
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Arizona is not joining. Maybe in 3 years.
This whole situation is brinksmanship between the PAC10 and Big12. The Big12 has the PAC in a sweat box with the clock ticking. We are sitting on the back burner as a plug-in piece. We probably get screwed if the 4 corner schools all go. My assessment:
All 4 Corners In - UConn out unless they go to six (UConn Gonzaga)
3 of 4 Corners (No ASU - state has said they aren’t moving) - UConn fills spot 4
Colorado Only - UConn in as number 2 slot
All 4 Corners Stay - UConn slot 1 and SDSU maybe slot 2 or Memphis
I’d say we are at 80% probability of a formal invite, because I can’t see the PAC getting so squeezed the conf implodes. I think $30M +|- 2M per school is the magic number the keeps the conference from imploding.
All 4 Corners In - UConn out unless they go to six (UConn Gonzaga)
3 of 4 Corners (No ASU - state has said they aren’t moving) - UConn fills spot 4
Colorado Only - UConn in as number 2 slot
All 4 Corners Stay - UConn slot 1 and SDSU maybe slot 2 or Memphis
I’d say we are at 80% probability of a formal invite, because I can’t see the PAC getting so squeezed the conf implodes. I think $30M +|- 2M per school is the magic number the keeps the conference from imploding.
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Someone on the TCU fansite posted that the PAC 12 is going to hold together due to the large amount of research money that gets passed around in the PAC12. Supposedly that money is far greater than the football money. I have no idea if that is true, but I sure hope it is true.
According to this article from the University of Utah, the school reached $686 million in research dollars in the fiscal year 2022 and continues to see growth in that arena due to its connection to the Pac-12 and the other AAU schools associated with the conference.
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According to this article from the University of Utah, the school reached $686 million in research dollars in the fiscal year 2022 and continues to see growth in that arena due to its connection to the Pac-12 and the other AAU schools associated with the conference.
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It's been a while since I last addressed the topic of the ongoing Pac-12 media rights negotiations. From my perspective, not much has changed.
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TCU fans are morons for the most part. Research dollars have nothing to do with conference affiliation. We went through this when our fans thought we were going to the B1G. Now alumni base, out of state students etc....that is a factor.Someone on the TCU fansite posted that the PAC 12 is going to hold together due to the large amount of research money that gets passed around in the PAC12. Supposedly that money is far greater than the football money. I have no idea if that is true, but I sure hope it is true.
According to this article from the University of Utah, the school reached $686 million in research dollars in the fiscal year 2022 and continues to see growth in that arena due to its connection to the Pac-12 and the other AAU schools associated with the conference.
Unpacking Latest On Pac-12 Media Rights Negotiations
It's been a while since I last addressed the topic of the ongoing Pac-12 media rights negotiations. From my perspective, not much has changed.
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That may be true officially, and yet these academic connections do seem to matter. I guess we will find out soon enough. If the PAC 12 holds together it will be because of the AAU research money.
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This and the fact most PAC-12 schools will have to hold their noses if they have to join the B12 due to academics. I have to to imagine schools like Stanford and UC Berkeley will not even consider it unless they absolutely have no choice. I think remaining PAC will try to join the ACC if the conference does implode.
Let's hope Colorado will leave on its own, and UConn will be their partner to make it 14. Frankly, B12 needs to get to 16 at minimal just to keep pace with B1G and the SEC.
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Hopefully it fits his unconventional thinking. Be UnCommon!
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As a KU fan you are welcome to post here. But we don't read in fans of other schools to the set of secrets that we UConn fans share.
In particular Rule Number One of Conference Realignment. You appear to not yet be familiar with it. Good. That means that the UConn fans have not blabbed to those on the outside and there are no sensitive documents being stored in insecure places. But reading between the lines you may perhaps figure it out. Especially if you are familiar with yankee talk.
Why are you so confident that they won’t?
I thought Rule 1 is we don’t talk about Rule 1?As a KU fan you are welcome to post here. But we don't read in fans of other schools to the set of secrets that we UConn fans share.
In particular Rule Number One of Conference Realignment. You appear to not yet be familiar with it. Good. That means that the UConn fans have not blabbed to those on the outside and there are no sensitive documents being stored in insecure places. But reading between the lines you may perhaps figure it out. Especially if you are familiar with yankee talk.
Because Robbins wants to stay in the PAC. If Oregon/Washington leave, then he will be forced to leave.
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Oh, we talk about Rule 1, we just don't explain it.
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I thought I alluded to it like physicists allude to dark matter. Maybe it exists and maybe it doesn't. We have plenty of evidence that it does exist, but no one has ever seen it. Would that be fair?
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Let’s not mention the car wash.As a KU fan you are welcome to post here. But we don't read in fans of other schools to the set of secrets that we UConn fans share.
In particular Rule Number One of Conference Realignment. You appear to not yet be familiar with it. Good. That means that the UConn fans have not blabbed to those on the outside and there are no sensitive documents being stored in insecure places. But reading between the lines you may perhaps figure it out. Especially if you are familiar with yankee talk.
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Alas, the inexplicable rule cannot be explained.
The Rule 1 existed or didn’t before Schrödinger’s cat.
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Paul Finebaum predicts Pac-12 will collapse by 2026
On Tuesday morning, the SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum touted the inevitable demise of another power conference: the Pac-12. The league just had its two Los Angeles schools (UCLA and USC) poached by a conference on the opposite side of the country and have more members attracting attention from other leagues. According to Finebaum, this version of the Pac-12 won’t last very long and he predicts the conference will be completely dismembered in the next few years.
Finebaum went on to say the bigger conferences may not even want to expand but may be forced to go ahead and stake their claim with the Pac-12 conference schools since they could be available.
“And ultimately, as much as big conferences don’t really want to expand at the moment, I think they’ll be forced to take the cream of the crop out there, whether it’s the Big Ten going after the northwest schools, whether it’s Colorado or Arizona or somebody else just deciding to go to the Big 12 — I do not believe the Pac-12 can exist.”
On Tuesday morning, the SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum touted the inevitable demise of another power conference: the Pac-12. The league just had its two Los Angeles schools (UCLA and USC) poached by a conference on the opposite side of the country and have more members attracting attention from other leagues. According to Finebaum, this version of the Pac-12 won’t last very long and he predicts the conference will be completely dismembered in the next few years.
Finebaum went on to say the bigger conferences may not even want to expand but may be forced to go ahead and stake their claim with the Pac-12 conference schools since they could be available.
“And ultimately, as much as big conferences don’t really want to expand at the moment, I think they’ll be forced to take the cream of the crop out there, whether it’s the Big Ten going after the northwest schools, whether it’s Colorado or Arizona or somebody else just deciding to go to the Big 12 — I do not believe the Pac-12 can exist.”
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This inevitably happens whenever UConn seems close to having something good happen regarding conference realignment. Every time. For perpetuity.