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[QUOTE="crewbear742, post: 4728472, member: 7435"]
Colorado was the key piece in a very complex game of Jenga. It was the school that could pry open the PAC 12. The other schools didn't want to be known as the school that took down the PAC 12. But Colorado leaving gave Arizona cover to follow. Arizona's departure satisfied the concerns of the B1G lawyers and enabled Washington and Oregon to move. The departure of Oregon and Washington de-stabilized the conference and caused Az St and Utah to jump. And great was the collapse of the edifice. Colorado had a very small window of value and made the most of it.

Lots of people had an interest in this outcome. The networks didn't want to pay for an under-performing regional conference. The B1G wanted to lock up the West Coast so it could eventually expand East. The B12 wanted to remove the PAC from the Re-Alignment Hunger Games. And there was Colorado right in the middle of it all - at just the time with just the right willingness to act. Being a former B12 member didn't hurt either..
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