USC and UCLA looking to leave PAC 12 for the Big 10 in 2024

[MSSportsGuy]

Oh yeah, they CAN pay for it . How’s UCLA’s hockey team? How’s Minnesota’s synchronized swimming team?

Big 10 is buying a whole bunch’a TV SETS - but do those TV sets in Cali ever turn to college sports.

Yeah, I’m throwing a lot of snot out there but the Bigger will generate a lotta’ dollars

I sort of get you. Do that many people in Southern California want to tune in to Purdue and UCLA? Rutgers and USC? I have no business picking on anyone since Mississippi State isn't exactly a power program either but I just don't see there being excitement from the fans, alumni, or a broad audience.

Now THE Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, clearly there would be more interest.

 

[Carnac]

The Big 10, really? This conference realignment thing is getting out of hand. Two California schools in the Big 10?

What’s next, Hawaii joining the ACC?

Don't laugh. If it makes dollars, it makes sense. You can throw logic and common sense out the window in 2022. Anything is possible now-a-days.

 

[BobbyJ]

The Big Ten generates close to $1 billion in revenue from TV, tickets & merchandise, and that number will only grow with USC & UCLA added to the conference. I think they will find a way to pay for airfare….

The schools might just buy their own planes like the Patriots did.

 

[CBus13]

I wonder how this will affect USC and UCLA's recruiting (for non-football sports) recruiting. Imagine staying "home" and playing pretty much all your games on the other side of the country. Wouldn't really feel like staying home to play in front of your family and friends.

 

[UConnCat]

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[oldude]

I wonder how this will affect USC and UCLA's recruiting (for non-football sports) recruiting. Imagine staying "home" and playing pretty much all your games on the other side of the country. Wouldn't really feel like staying home to play in front of your family and friends.

For every other school in the new Big 10, it’ll be one trip a year to LA for a game or games at USC/UCLA. For USC & UCLA, half of their conference schedule will involve cross country flights. That’s a lot of travel for so-called student-athletes.

 

[Kaizen]

Don't laugh. If it makes dollars, it makes sense. You can throw logic and common sense out the window in 2022. Anything is possible now-a-days.

University of Alaska will join SEC and University of Puerto Rico will join Ivy League....

Hawaii will join CUBA (Chinese University Basketball Association) .

 

[TerpWomenFan]

It is being reported that Oregon and Washington are applying to join the Big 10 as well. If accepted by the Big 10, expect the remaining PAC 12 teams and Big 12 teams to merge.

 

[UHF]

USC or UCLA have a wrestling program for Penn State to wipe the floor with?

Only other sport besides football that benefits from USC and UCLA joining tB1G is volleyball.

What are the odds that the SEC or tB1G take UConn Football?

 

[nwhoopfan]

What is it the millennials say--"I just can't with this." I've been a Pac 10/12 fan my entire life, and it seems like it might be on the verge of disappearing. Stupid football and $$$ has absolutely ruined college sports. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

 

[UHF]

What is it the millennials say--"I just can't with this." I've been a Pac 10/12 fan my entire life, and it seems like it might be on the verge of disappearing. Stupid football and $$$ has absolutely ruined college sports. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

Only college sports that I pay attention to are :

UConn WBB.
women's Volleyball.
women's Cross Country.
women's Track & Field.

I will take this any day over college (pro) football.

 

[MSSportsGuy]

Well I love college football but admit I don't like what's happening at all. I was about to enter college when Ark and SC joined the SEC. It took some time to get used to but whatever. When A&M and Missouri joined, I wasn't thrilled at MU because it seemed like a terrible geographic and cultural fit. Nothing against them but Columbia, MO, is about as midwest as you can get. A&M sort of made sense due to their location in TX.

Now TX and OU are coming on board, and the race is on again. This is about nothing but TV revenue. It will ultimately kill the things I like best about the sport. For years the B12 is the one everyone assumed would disappear. It's about to be the PAC.

 

[visitingcock]

Only college sports that I pay attention to are :

UConn WBB.
women's Volleyball.
women's Cross Country.
women's Track & Field.

I will take this any day over college (pro) football.

softball is a good sport. But they don't have enough scholarships. 9 positions and a DH, and only 12.5 scholarships. (same for baseball).

Personally, I think wbb should reduce to 13 scholarships and "extra" two to softball.

 

[Bald Husky]

Continuation of the now inevitable process of major conference realignment to result in 1? 2? or 3? Super Conferences. NIL is also a growing factor in the acceleration of these decisions. Through all of this UConn remains a perennial bridesmaid to the Power conferences…..

If Mora can bring us back to some kind of respectability, then our chances of getting into the realignment mix will be greatly improved. Football has really screwed us in all the fazes of realignment. If BC hadn't blackballed us years ago, we would be sitting pretty right about now.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Did Larry Scott deliberately set out to destroy the Pac 12? Cuz right about now, that's looking like what his incompetence accomplished. How in the world did all of the school presidents just sit around and watch that happen?

 

[Centerstream]

softball is a good sport. But they don't have enough scholarships. 9 positions and a DH, and only 12.5 scholarships. (same for baseball).

Personally, I think wbb should reduce to 13 scholarships and "extra" two to softball.

I would hope with the popularity of softball getting larger each year that the NCAA would increase the number of scholarships. But the tv networks (SEC, ACC, Big12 on ESPN+, and B1G) would need to increase their broadcasts to help justify the increase.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

What is it the millennials say--"I just can't with this." I've been a Pac 10/12 fan my entire life, and it seems like it might be on the verge of disappearing. Stupid football and $$$ has absolutely ruined college sports. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

Being a Maryland fan I feel your pain. Maryland should be in the ACC. But they are making way more money now. But the cost is pretty significant. No hope of winning anything significant in football.

 

[visitingcock]

I would hope with the popularity of softball getting larger each year that the NCAA would increase the number of scholarships. But the tv networks (SEC, ACC, Big12 on ESPN+, and B1G) would need to increase their broadcasts to help justify the increase.

The SEC has said that it wants to increase softball and baseball scholarships but the smaller NCAA schools oppose it due to expense.

 

[nickp91]

PAC 12 Network will go down as one of the biggest failures in sports business history

 

[LoTrader]

PAC 12 Network will go down as one of the biggest failures in sports business history

To call it a network is an insult to networks

 

[UHF]

PAC 12 Network will go down as one of the biggest failures in sports business history

Who should take the majority of blame for negotiation failures? PAC 12 Network or carriers like DirecTV? Grateful to anyone who knows the details.

 

[visitingcock]

Who should take the majority of blame for negotiation failures? PAC 12 Network or carriers like DirecTV? Grateful to anyone who knows the details.

Larry Scott

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Who should take the majority of blame for negotiation failures? PAC 12 Network or carriers like DirecTV? Grateful to anyone who knows the details.

Can't really blame DirecTV, although I always wished they carried it. Dish does.

We just this year signed up to one of the on-line streaming TV services (Sling) to get it. I admit the motivation was more about the winter Olympics and a problem with our DirecTV DVR, but it enabled us to watch a few Women's Basketball games and a couple tournament games for the PAC.

All in all, I would blame Larry Scott, as well.

 

[BruinGold]

USC or UCLA have a wrestling program for Penn State to wipe the floor with?

Only other sport besides football that benefits from USC and UCLA joining tB1G is volleyball.

What are the odds that the SEC or tB1G take UConn Football?

UCLA cut wrestling around 1981, shortly after fielding an NCAA champion. Both schools currently have a club wrestling team.

Also, UCLA, at least, won't be sending all of volleyball to the B1G. Men's Volleyball and Beach will remain in their (non-Pac-12) conference, the MPSF. Both Men's and Women's Water Polo teams, too.

Women's Volleyball, the indoor variety, will be going to the B1G.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Oregon and Washington application to the Big 10 is on hold. Once again since the 70's and 80's, the Big 10 is making a big play to have Notre Dame join the conference. If ND finally accepts, they will accept the other two applications. Then the Big 10 will have to find a 20th team. That won't be easy.