NCAA made a big mistake by not regulating the number of conferences and teams in each. This is all being driven by TV dollars and it’s not going to end well for anyone but the Top 40 or so programs.
I wonder what world we would have been in if the NCAA had aggressively pursued TV contracts in the 50s-80s rather than restricting it to one game a week and one game per team per year. They lost control by trying to ignore the money that was out there.
A stronger NCAA sounds terrible and yet better than what we have.
Yeah, I’m a Hawkeye fan living in Oregon. I am excited for this as I’ll get to see the teams from my youth come and play here, but it’s melancholy. WSU and OSU being railroaded here blows. The Civil War and the Apple Cup were great rivalry games.
WSU fan, I may have watched my last college football game. I have no interest in watching MWC games, and have no interest in MWC programs. This sucks.
WSU is going to have to cut athletic spending so much that I doubt we’ll have much left beyond basketball and a token football program. They ran at a 11.5million dollar deficit last year. The MWC payouts are ~4m. There’s no way to budget your way out of that hole. It’s fully possible the state is going to have to bail out the athletics department at this rate.
USCLA started everything, and we can’t fully blame everyone else for going where the money is, but it fucking blows to be left out in the cold with 0 options.
There is honestly nothing I could say to make you feel better about this situation. Im sorry CFB bro. Im still holding out hope for you guys to maybe maintain the PAC name and maybe rebuild with you guys at the top! Youre right though about the money. Maybe there is still some money holding all the rights to the PAC name?
Husky fan. I feel you Coug bro. I absolutely despise this. I don’t give one shit about midwest college teams. Fuck the Big 10, fuck Ohio State and Michigan and whoever the fuck is in that dumb fucking conference. Fuck the LA teams for leaving, fuck NCAA and the BCS, and most of all FUCK LARRY SCOTT. I am convinced some entity paid him to ruin the PAC12. Incompetence at that level is almost always driven by a “$pecial interest”. I realize I am ranting. I’m just furious and sad for our West Coast regional college football and all its history and culture. Hearts going out to all yall Dawgs and Cougs hurt by this.
I really feel for you guys. ISU fan that really vibed with you guys at the Alamo Bowl, and just generally likes your program. I also thought were going to get left in the wilderness a few years back when the Big XII almost imploded. This all really sucks and I wish the Big XII would give you guys a life raft.
It’s bittersweet for me as an Oregon fan. I’ve watched the Pac-10/12 for 30 years, and I’ve loved watching my team play everyone in this conference. I know there’s a lot of anger out there right now and it’s justified. I want to keep playing the Beavers every year, but if they want to tell us where to shove it, I get it.
This fucking sucks.
However, Wisconsin and Washington better be playing for a giant fucking W.
