Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[WestCoastHusky]

Please please please invite our football program. Leave basketball in the Big East, put football in the PAC. And everyone is happy in the short term. Plus it's an extra $7-8M in our pocket which would be huge for our budget.

This would be the ideal outcome for us and the PAC-12 if we can get a football only membership. If Zags can get full share without football, then we are really been under valued.

 

[KryHavok]

From the Gonzaga AD:

 

[Patman]

This would be the ideal outcome for us and the PAC-12 if we can get a football only membership. If Zags can get full share without football, then we are really been under valued.

not really. Any deal would probably leave us outside windows to join the B12. Not making the B12 means we dont have a life raft when basketball splits away

 

[UConnTrumbull]

This will be an unpopular take here but needs to be said: if we are really looking at football only somewhere (highly skeptical that it ever happens), the AAC is a better fit than the PAC.

Would depend on the money but with Memphis, Tulane and USF staying along with Army and Navy and better geography, you’re right. Thing is the AAC would never have us after we abandoned them.

 

[UConn Dan]

So which side leaked it? PAC-12 trying to attract the best schools or Gonzaga trying to get an offer from Big 12?

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

So which side leaked it? PAC-12 trying to attract the best schools or Gonzaga trying to get an offer from Big 12?

Not a blogger with limited Gonzaga contacts/insights a la a Greensboro HR recruiter Huskies sports guru wannabe?

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Exit 4]

wow, they forgot the "* for now"

 

[Urcea]

Suicide pact lol

 

[WrenchFan69]

 

[Waquoit]

This will be an unpopular take here but needs to be said: if we are really looking at football only somewhere (highly skeptical that it ever happens), the AAC is a better fit than the PAC.

I don't think many here will disagree. The AAC for FB-only is better than being an indy. But that option was never going to happen.

 

[jostar1]

It never made sense for them to go to another G5 Conference.

 

[jostar1]

If Gonzaga sans-football makes more than the Big East schools, there needs to be a serious conversation about WTF our athletic dept is doing.

What should they be doing?

 

[jostar1]

Nothing says "maybe you made a mistake" to Fresno State, SDSU, Boise State and Colorado State quite like seeing this in your Twitter feed.

SDSU has made that mistake twice.

 

[WrenchFan69]

More good news for us, frankly

 

[noeynox]

More good news for us, frankly

How so? I don't think any of this really impacts us.

 

[WrenchFan69]

How so? I don't think any of this really impacts us.

PAC-6 are out of programs to add. UConn football is the most viable property remaining.

 

[WrenchFan69]

 

[WrenchFan69]

 

[nelsonmuntz]

This is turning into one of the more brutal public humiliations in sports history. The Pac 12 was making press releases for days about which schools they were going to add, and now they are hoping for Utah State to say "yes".

The smart move is for both sides, the MWC and Pac 2+4, to stand down and work something out.

 

[WrenchFan69]

This is turning into one of the more brutal public humiliations in sports history. The Pac 12 was making press releases for days about which schools they were going to add, and now they are hoping for Utah State to say "yes".

The smart move is for both sides, the MWC and Pac 2+4, to stand down and work something out.

That would probably be the smarter move, however, I'm still holding out hope for our football-only invite lol

 

[WrenchFan69]

 

[LetsGoUC]

Lol Utah State...

 

[Hoophound]

That would probably be the smarter move, however, I'm still holding out hope for our football-only invite lol

I’m not sure we can join the PAC for football is there’s only 2-3 other members.