Ah yes, Stanford and Cal in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Makes sense.
I can think of worse things than if Yormark responded and expanded the conference to 18 with Stanford & Cal.
It’s probably an easy sell to those schools, who are otherwise looking at even longer travel than the B1G westies will have.
The Big-12 / ACC fight to see who the 3rd superconference will be looks intense.
The way this is all going… might we be at three 24 team super conferences, soon?
If Stanford and Cal actually go to the ACC, I think that sets the conditions for a reorg in a decade to keep the western teams out west, ie, David Shaw’s prediction. Three (nearly) coast to coast conferences with just dumb amounts of travel for the pacific coast teams in two of those conferences.
If the Big-12 takes Stanford and Cal, we keep adding destination cities and keep a stronger recruiting hand in NorCal.
If we consider Ohio St. the center of B1G universe (they do), the distance to all the other universities is an average of 420 miles with a standard deviation of 200 miles. LA schools are 1980ish miles from Ohio St. UW/UO are between 2000-2010 miles. 10 standard deviations, so they would be outliers thrown out in any data set. For nerds, here’s a quick box and whisker plot showing how ridiculous it is:
800 is Nebraska. 200 is Michigan
Or if you pick Purdue as the center (it’s 70 miles from the geographic center of the current B1G footprint)
I wonder if Utah could have got into ACC if they had waited and stayed tied to Cal and Stanford
maybe, but ugh, no. We don’t want to be like the B1G westies.
If Cal thought they had athletic financial problems now, just wait until the travel bill hits.
LOL - I’m imagining Cal sending UCLA their travel bills.
If we learned anything from the BIG WAC it was that these artificial alliances kind of suck and will not last forever. The B12 is a relatively good landing spot for us given the B10’s lack of interest . We need to keep on winning and be positioned for the next realignment.
Wait until those flatlanders in Texas and Oklahoma have to play a game at Utah and Colorado. They’ll need oxygen.
They will be. It’s called “Calimony”
FTFO!
Anyone know how difficult it would be for the other sports to break off and keep the PAC12 alive as a non-football/BB conference? It makes so much more sense for the non-revenue sports to stay put.
That’s why it will never happen.
The thing about UC and WVU is that they are pretty close together. So that would be a pretty doable back to back. UCF is the oddball team of all the teams. If the ACC falls apart you can easily add Louisville and that would make total sense.
A school I think would help get in the SEC footprint and makese sense for the Big XII is Memphis and UAB. G5 schools that could bring something to the conference. UAB may be the stretch but Memphis is a great city and has some hoops history and does every so often creep into football.
I’m with you, man. I was already feeling cynical as hell about college sports in general, and this is probably the final nail in the coffin. The Ute athletic teams won’t be visiting the Seattle area anymore because of this whole travesty. I’ll stick around this place for the camaraderie and to post a joke or two, but I’m more or less done with college sports (and most professional sports, too, for different reasons). It was fun while it lasted!
You say a lot of annoying things around here, but this one was actually clever. Kudos.
Remarks from WSU president. Ducks and Huskies killed P12.
Anyone else have survivor’s guilt? I feel awful for the fate of OSU & WSU. Stanford & Cal will probably be fine but OSU & WSU are truly screwed. That’s not good, they deserve better.
Kind of, but I compare it to surviving a nuclear blast and having to live in a bunker, with Barry Manilow playing on a loop over loud speakers. Glad we found a landing spot, but would have much rather stayed as the Pac 10 with SDSU
Oh wow! Rick Pitino and now Lane Kiffin.