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New PAC-12 Forming

drayenob said:
This is Matt's list from........October of 2022. I think it would be somewhat different today.

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What is the criteria that make these podcasters experts? Seems like a perfect job if you live in your parents’ basement and using your parents internet service to do your show.
 
UConn Dan said:
Matt Norlander has gotta be one the worst at sports media. The kid grew up in Storrs and tries so hard to be a non-homer. He's worse than Donny. Can't believe someone pays him money to spew this garbage.

UConn is a TOP 5 Job. Period.
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He’s from Vermont…
 
shizzle787 said:
He’s from Vermont…
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I know he spent some time in Vermont as a kid but he’s from CT and went to West Conn.
 

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UConn Dan said:
I know he spent some time in Vermont as a kid but he’s from CT and went to West Conn.
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Ah, he's a graduate of Western Connecticut State College.
 
Lots of teams struggle when they replace a hall of fame head coach. One reason is that they let the guy leaving select his replacement. Everyone assumes that will continue his legacy. It rarely does beyond a season or two. Probably less in the current portal era.
 
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This was posted on CSNBBS:

PAC eyeing UConn

"Per John Canzano, the PAC is looking to add UConn as a FB only member with a “strategic scheduling arrangement in both men’s and women’s basketball” if they cannot add UNLV soon. He also said that there was a moment in the past where UConn was “24 hours away” from joining the PAC in all sports but backed out due to scheduling costs for Olympic sports. Thoughts?"

"I should add this would be for 2027. The PAC would have to help UConn pay to cancel a dozen and a half games."

Note: The article is behind a paywall, but here is Canzano's tweet:

 
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jostar1 said:
This was posted on CSNBBS:

PAC eyeing UConn

Per John Canzano, the PAC is looking to add UConn as a FB only member with a “strategic scheduling arrangement in both men’s and women’s basketball” if they cannot add UNLV soon. He also said that there was a moment in the past where UConn was “24 hours away” from joining the PAC in all sports but backed out due to scheduling costs for Olympic sports. Thoughts?

I should add this would be for 2027. The PAC would have to help UConn pay to cancel a dozen and a half games.

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I think this is only true if the Football Playoff Committee has told UConn that independents w/o a Conf tie in (ala like ND) are set to be fully excluded starting in X.
 
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jostar1 said:
This was posted on CSNBBS:

PAC eyeing UConn

"Per John Canzano, the PAC is looking to add UConn as a FB only member with a “strategic scheduling arrangement in both men’s and women’s basketball” if they cannot add UNLV soon. He also said that there was a moment in the past where UConn was “24 hours away” from joining the PAC in all sports but backed out due to scheduling costs for Olympic sports. Thoughts?"

"I should add this would be for 2027. The PAC would have to help UConn pay to cancel a dozen and a half games."

Note: The article is behind a paywall, but here is Canzano's tweet:

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Wasnt Canzano the guy that kept saying the Pac 12 was close to a tv deal and it never happened?

The fact that he also claims UConn was going to join for all sports makes me think it's a made up fantasy
 
the thing for me, about these uconn reports is... who would bother making a fake story about uconn? like, we aren't a big brand to gain them clicks, so it's not clickbait. I agree that these old pac-for-all-sports reports always sounded, and still sound ridiculous, but why would someone choose UConn to make clickbait about? like - only we care about uconn lol
 
How Sway?! said:
Wasnt Canzano the guy that kept saying the Pac 12 was close to a tv deal and it never happened?

The fact that he also claims UConn was going to join for all sports makes me think it's a made up fantasy
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He is a longtime Pacific Northwest sports columnist/PAC12 cheerleader. (Think the Barry Tramel of Oregon). He has contacts but also ready access to special mushrooms.
 
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jostar1 said:
This was posted on CSNBBS:

PAC eyeing UConn

"Per John Canzano, the PAC is looking to add UConn as a FB only member with a “strategic scheduling arrangement in both men’s and women’s basketball” if they cannot add UNLV soon. He also said that there was a moment in the past where UConn was “24 hours away” from joining the PAC in all sports but backed out due to scheduling costs for Olympic sports. Thoughts?"

"I should add this would be for 2027. The PAC would have to help UConn pay to cancel a dozen and a half games."

Note: The article is behind a paywall, but here is Canzano's tweet:

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Thanks for posting. Got a Google alert but when I saw Canzano’s name I didn’t rush to it.

Like others have said, if true this is a last resort for football only if we’re forced into a conference to make CFP. The all sports thing was never going to happen.
 
jostar1 said:
This was posted on CSNBBS:

PAC eyeing UConn

"Per John Canzano, the PAC is looking to add UConn as a FB only member with a “strategic scheduling arrangement in both men’s and women’s basketball” if they cannot add UNLV soon. He also said that there was a moment in the past where UConn was “24 hours away” from joining the PAC in all sports but backed out due to scheduling costs for Olympic sports. Thoughts?"

"I should add this would be for 2027. The PAC would have to help UConn pay to cancel a dozen and a half games."

Note: The article is behind a paywall, but here is Canzano's tweet:

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Well, we've seen this bantered about before. I wanted to see what the rePAC fans thought of this, and it seems that posters are generally okay with it if it also includes scheduling agreement with our men's and women's BBall teams (we did also get props for baseball). What intrigued me were posts alluding to the all cretins crew wanting to drop UConn from their football schedules (as well as Vandy and Rutty, who we just made an agreement with...could be some rando spouting off). Sooo, anyone else hearing that the tobacco roadies want to drop UConn, cuz this is news to me.
 
jostar1 said:
This was posted on CSNBBS:

PAC eyeing UConn

"Per John Canzano, the PAC is looking to add UConn as a FB only member with a “strategic scheduling arrangement in both men’s and women’s basketball” if they cannot add UNLV soon. He also said that there was a moment in the past where UConn was “24 hours away” from joining the PAC in all sports but backed out due to scheduling costs for Olympic sports. Thoughts?"

"I should add this would be for 2027. The PAC would have to help UConn pay to cancel a dozen and a half games."

Note: The article is behind a paywall, but here is Canzano's tweet:

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Lol.

Less than zero chance we were considering moving all sports to PAC.

Football arrangement? Sure we have to explore all options.
 
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jostar1 said:
This was posted on CSNBBS:

PAC eyeing UConn

"Per John Canzano, the PAC is looking to add UConn as a FB only member with a “strategic scheduling arrangement in both men’s and women’s basketball” if they cannot add UNLV soon. He also said that there was a moment in the past where UConn was “24 hours away” from joining the PAC in all sports but backed out due to scheduling costs for Olympic sports. Thoughts?"

"I should add this would be for 2027. The PAC would have to help UConn pay to cancel a dozen and a half games."

Note: The article is behind a paywall, but here is Canzano's tweet:

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Whatever happens UConn needs to get paid $$$$. It's a decent enough football conference for now but no discounts. If anything, we get a premium for throwing them some hoops games and east coast football visits. I know it won't happen but money talks

 


From the article in The Mercury News:

I don’t think the Pac-12 should add more schools from the Mountain West, except UNLV. Let’s say the Rebels and all American Conference schools are off the table until 2031. Is there anyone else that would move the needle? –@SD_Samurai

There are no schools that move the needle in the fashion the Pac-12 would like: by increasing the media value of the entire conference.
Commissioner Teresa Gould secured the schools that mattered most (Boise State, San Diego State and Gonzaga) in the fall of 2024.
At this point, there are no must-haves — not even UNLV, which passed on the chance to join the Pac-12.
The Rebels fit geographically, and Las Vegas is a growing hub for college and pro sports. But they are not a value-add for media rights and don’t clear the bar as a football brand.

In our view, the most intriguing school is UConn, a football Independent and member of the Big East in basketball. Add the Huskies as a football-only ninth member and arrange for a rotating basketball scheduling partnership with their men’s and women’s teams. (Maybe three games per season against each.)
If that’s not possible, the Pac-12 should stand down. Better to stay at eight than to add a school that undercuts the collective’s competitive bar and media value.

 
jostar1 said:


From the article in The Mercury News:

I don’t think the Pac-12 should add more schools from the Mountain West, except UNLV. Let’s say the Rebels and all American Conference schools are off the table until 2031. Is there anyone else that would move the needle? –@SD_Samurai

There are no schools that move the needle in the fashion the Pac-12 would like: by increasing the media value of the entire conference.
Commissioner Teresa Gould secured the schools that mattered most (Boise State, San Diego State and Gonzaga) in the fall of 2024.
At this point, there are no must-haves — not even UNLV, which passed on the chance to join the Pac-12.
The Rebels fit geographically, and Las Vegas is a growing hub for college and pro sports. But they are not a value-add for media rights and don’t clear the bar as a football brand.

In our view, the most intriguing school is UConn, a football Independent and member of the Big East in basketball. Add the Huskies as a football-only ninth member and arrange for a rotating basketball scheduling partnership with their men’s and women’s teams. (Maybe three games per season against each.)
If that’s not possible, the Pac-12 should stand down. Better to stay at eight than to add a school that undercuts the collective’s competitive bar and media value.

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I am not willing to give pac12 6 total bball games a year. 1M, 1W at most, in my view. with a weak big east, uconn needs a marquee OOC schedule, and 1 gonzaga game + 2 wasted games, won't cut it if we have a down year in conference.

I'd rather risk a loss to UNC than have to grind it out with.... Utah State.

I'd suspect uconn feels this too... if thats a must for the pac to consider us, i say move on and don't look back.
I'd rather play ACC/old big east opponents, in football.
 
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Jetskies said:
I am not willing to give pac12 6 total bball games a year. 1M, 1W at most, in my view. with a weak big east, uconn needs a marquee OOC schedule, and 1 gonzaga game + 2 wasted games, won't cut it if we have a down year in conference.

I'd rather risk a loss to UNC than have to grind it out with.... Utah State.

I'd suspect uconn feels this too... if thats a must for the pac to consider us, i say move on and don't look back.
I'd rather play ACC/old big east opponents.
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Agreed. Even if one of those is guaranteed to be Gonzaga every year (which feels unlikely), that only really adds value on the men's side, so you're looking at 5 OOC basketball games thrown to the wind, which is especially challenging when the women already need to schedule hard to make up for a weak Big East slate. Hard to feel like that's worth it for what the Pac offers in football.
 
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Didn’t Dave Benedict just say something to the extent of UConn won’t join a FB conference unless it’s a P4?

…and as many have said, absolutely not to any basketball scheduling agreement unless it’s 1 per year and it’s Gonzaga.
 
Jetskies said:
I am not willing to give pac12 6 total bball games a year. 1M, 1W at most, in my view. with a weak big east, uconn needs a marquee OOC schedule, and 1 gonzaga game + 2 wasted games, won't cut it if we have a down year in conference.

I'd rather risk a loss to UNC than have to grind it out with.... Utah State.

I'd suspect uconn feels this too... if thats a must for the pac to consider us, i say move on and don't look back.
I'd rather play ACC/old big east opponents, in football.
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They did just extend the regular season by 1 game so if you agree to 2 games for each program, it's not a big deal. The 3 floated around above is a lot but of course if this ever came to pass I am sure that's what would actually happen.

Gonzaga, SDST are really the only interesting programs, Utah State to a lesser extent but playing Texas State / Fresno State / Boise State would be a big of a drag but I suspect if you're the PAC and UConn you're smart about scheduling this since just having UConn show up and smash a bad Oregon State does nothing for everyone.

I do think if you had 1 home and 1 away game for each program a season with rotating only the better programs (sorry Texas State) is very fair. It's one west coast trip a year.
 
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