North Carolina and Virginia. Then Duke and Georgia Tech. UT can only raise yall's academic standing so much, by ourselves. Screw Nebraska.
Kidding aside. Nobody cares about academics. It's all a PLOY to raise tuition prices to infinity. A plumber makes twice of what the avg UNC graduate does. FACTS. Mack Brown in UT's conference sounds FUN though.
Come on man, can't you see they're leveraging cross-functional synergies to create the blockchain for next-gen college athletics?
Outside of ND and BYU, which schools could the PAC 12 really consider? The Big 12 brought in Luck to help with adding schools. UCF, Cincy, Memphis, ? .. I would gladly take UH but Idk if that will happen
I don’t even think the commissioners know what this is going to look like honestly. Sounds like they knew they were a SEC call away from having one or more of their flagship schools poached. Hell outside a new or extended GOR, this could potentially still happen?
This doesn't really prevent the SEC from doing any more wrecking and poaching. What it does do is quarantine the SEC in terms of scheduling. This way at the end of the day the champions of the non-sec conferences will be able to say "look at all these teams from other elite conferences we beat" while the SEC will be left to kick around cupcakes and continue inbreeding. If the SEC is threatening to consume college athletics, you might as well not send your own teams to be fodder for their buzzsaw. The problem is it's far too late to prevent the SEC from being the far and away most powerful conference in college athletics.
I think the Pac is just as likely to add San Diego State and UNLV than any of the pointless Big 12 schools But I don't think we add anyone at the end of the day
The PAC 12 has been ass in football and you'll be in the same position if USC walks to a far more lucrative deal. They may want to get into the central time zone so adding the Texas schools makes some sense. With some of the quotes I read today from the Pac 12 commissioner about "supporting the Big 12" makes me think that they will not consider expanding right now.
We’ll have to see how the scheduling component goes. If they’re just adding 1-2 “alliance conference” games, not sure that really moves the needle. Especially if we’re headed to a much expanded CFP. A conference championship should get you in with an expanded CFP but does the 2nd or 3rd ranked team from the alliance start making it in before the same from the SEC? Not sure it does.
A footprint in Texas would be worth more than adding UNLV or another Cal school. I agree that they don’t add anyone but if they did, going further East makes sense.
Would it? The Commissioner comes from Vegas and knows the potential there. And San Diego is a market they aren't in. Baylor and TCU are complete non-starters, no chance they are even considered. Tech absolutely. And Houston maybe. Playing games in the central time zone for a Mountain team always sucked imo. It'll be even worse for teams on the coast I think there will only be 4 teams seriously considered: OK State, Texas Tech, UNLV, and San Diego State. Boise State and Houston on the fringes.
