Ba Bye…

[LAUte]

@Ma-ake

Reporting in the Athletic interviewing Fox Sports president Mark Silverman suggests the B1G adding the LA schools was solely to get the B1G at parity with the SEC on TV money.

No, it was all about the student-athletes! Why can’t people get that straight?

[Kosh]

@BamaFanNKY

UCLA should be out of debt now. “UCLA agrees to settlement of more than $67 million in dispute with Under Armour”

Why do y’all keep posting links to Paywall sites? I seriously doubt any of us not from these specific areas (or wealthy enough to sub to a billion different papers)are gonna wanna subscribe for one article…

[Kosh]

@Ma-ake

I remember as a kid KSL radio referring to Salt Lake City as the “Crossroads of the West”.

Well… here we are again, kind of. It’s going to be fascinating to see how this all plays out.

Maybe in 5 years it will be a PAC-8 again with the AZ schools & us getting pulled East. I hope we stay West, either in the PAC or a western wing of a super conference (though it would have to be a laaaarge superconference for us to get in, maybe 24 or 32 teams.) If we’re in the Tier 2 of superconferences, so be it. There are certainly worse problems to have.

The only thing I’m confident of is Utah is a reasonably strong brand and a solid research university. We’ll land on our feet.

Umm It can’t be the PAC8 without the SoCal schools

[Ma-ake]

Should have specified - I was going with the David Shaw hunch that the LA schools might come back in 5-10 years.

Also, Idaho has zero chance of going further back to when they were in the PAC.

[EUte]

@Ma-ake

Also, Idaho has zero chance of going further back to when they were in the PAC.

Can I get a Montana??

[Greginslc]

Are we going back to PAC or the older Skyline Conference?

[guillermo_piedras]

I do not understand why Utah fans cling to this west coast fantasy. Merge the PAC and Big 12 and by sheer force of numbers the new conference will be a big dog. It isn’t that hard.

[RUUTES]

Someone get out a map and draw 4 geographic regions that don’t look like a gerrymandered voting district. Have 24 teams in each. Quadrant. 16 team playoff. I could live with it over this mess.

[BamaFanNKY]

@Kosh

Why do y’all keep posting links to Paywall sites? I seriously doubt any of us not from these specific areas (or wealthy enough to sub to a billion different papers)are gonna wanna subscribe for one article…

I don’t know. I subscribe to about 12 newspapers though. LA Times is def worth the subscription.

[SeattleUte]

@guillermo_piedras

I do not understand why Utah fans cling to this west coast fantasy. Merge the PAC and Big 12 and by sheer force of numbers the new conference will be a big dog. It isn’t that hard.

Hilarious that Big 12 fans blather about the Pac 12 mortally wounded, while at least 10 of the Pac could be in the Big 12 today and don’t want it.

[Greginslc]

The monetizing of news is becoming more and more a thing, unfortunately. The days of open access on the web are starting to come to an end. I subscribe to the SL Tribune, New York Times, and the Economist. Hate to say, but I get better Utah news from the NYTIMES than I do the SLTrib.

[Greginslc]

The PAC is a more valuable TV asset, even without USC and UCLA, than the BIG 12.

[BamaFanNKY]

@Greginslc

The monetizing of news is becoming more and more a thing, unfortunately. The days of open access on the web are starting to come to an end. I subscribe to the SL Tribune, New York Times, and the Economist. Hate to say, but I get better Utah news from the NYTIMES than I do the SLTrib.

The monetizing of news? People used to pay me as a paperboy for their subscription to the LA Times. I think paying the sites is well worth it. The local papers need the money to dig deeper into stories. The NY Times is shocking how great their coverage is of random places. It’s my go to first thing reading in the morning.

[Greginslc]

Not arguing the paper. The challenge was the internet portals. In 2000 people could read the “paper” for free on the web, many started using the free web instead of paying for a subscription. It is a primary reason so many papers died. The remaining papers finally got things set up so they can get paid. Some are still slow to the party, but they are getting there. Hopefully they use the money to pay their reporters and staff. So far that seems to be happening.

[BamaFanNKY]

@Greginslc

So far that seems to be happening.

My local was just bought out by a group buying small papers. They seem to have figured out the perfect model for small town papers to turn a buck and supply a good service.

[ChadSexington]

@guillermo_piedras

I do not understand why Utah fans cling to this west coast fantasy. Merge the PAC and Big 12 and by sheer force of numbers the new conference will be a big dog. It isn’t that hard.

I don’t have anything against the Big12. I just prefer that my Utes not be a part of it.

[Ma-ake]

Wilner saying Penn State, Michigan & Ohio State won’t be playing 7:30p games in LA.

[salUTE]

Yes, and like it or not, I’d guess the LA schools will be playing a lot more cold weather games than they are used to, and at 9:00 or 10:00 AM LA time.

[ghostofOCGreg]

The additional 50 million can buy a lot of sweaters.

FTFO!

[UteBrave]

Seems like USCLA will push hard for the four other west coast schools to join the B1G, sooner rather than later, so they’ll have at least five games in the same time zone every year.