@BigDogBo #Pac12 is kicking ass all over the place. I LOVE IT!

#CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

Beautiful TD play for the #Huskies! #Pac12

#CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

Wouldn't it be ironic if a #Pac12 team won the championship in its final season?

#CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

Stanford, Cal, SMU join ACC: Conference membership growing to 18 schools as latest realignment domino falls

In related news, geography is no longer a requirement in ACC member schools' classes.

Research on transporters like in "Star Trek" will be accelerated in physics' labs.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/stanford-cal-smu-join-acc-conference-membership-growing-to-18-schools-as-latest-realignment-domino-falls/

#AllCoastConference #ACC #realignment #CollegeFootball #CollegeSports #AtlanticCoastConference #ACCexpansion #Pac12 #Pac4 #Pac2

#Cal, #Stanford, and #SMU are being invited into ACC.*

#ACC voted and #NCState flipped their vote.**

One more step towards the #PAC12 completely dissolving. #OregonState and #WashingtonState, as expected, are the last ones left.

* - via Pete Thamel
** - via MHver3

Adding Cal, Stanford, SMU is the best bad idea the ACC has - Luke DeCock

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article278825809.html

- The additions make the ACC measurably worse in football, men’s basketball.
- This expansion isn’t action. It’s reaction.
- If Notre Dame favors expansion, caveat emptor.

#Opinion #CollegeFootball #realignment #Pac12 #CollegeSports #colleges #Irish #UNC #NCState #FloridaState #Clemson #TarHeels #Wolfpack #Seminoles #B1G #BigTen

@alchemistmuffin I hope a #Pac12 team wins the Championship just for spite.

I think #USC and #Washington will play for the #PAC12 championship and #USC wins it.

1. USC (11-1)
2. Washington (11-1)
3. Oregon (10-2)
4. Oregon State (10-2)
5. Utah (8-4)
6. UCLA (7-5)
7.Washington State (5-7)
8. Arizona (4-8)
9. Colorado (4-8)
10. Arizona State (4-8)
11. Stanford (4-8)
12. Cal (2-10)

"Leaders from Stanford, California, Oregon State and Washington State spoke Thursday, and Stanford told its colleagues it had informed the ACC that it would be open to joining the conference at greatly reduced or even no media rights payout for several years, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press.'

Stanford has a very large group of very rich tech and politically connected alumni donors and a $36B endowment.

#PAC12 #Stanford
https://apnews.com/article/pac12-stanford-acc-conference-realignment-oregon-washiington-0722c523671cd2e4ac8b42151000bf48

Jason Scheer gives the real story of why the #PAC12 collapsed. Almost everything Canzano, Wilner, and most of the national writers had posted, were poorly sourced and wrong.

"Washington and Oregon never intended to sign the deal and have now taken the blame since the conference broke up. That was by design and something that both schools have no problems with whatsoever. "

https://247sports.com/college/arizona/article/pac-12-propoganda-and-inside-story-failed-media-deal-214257173/

ACC reportedly not looking to expand, leaving Stanford and Cal without a landing spot for now

https://www.si.com/college/stanford/football/acc-conference-reportedly-not-looking-to-expand-leaving-stanford-and-cal-without-a-landing-spot #collegefootball #sports #football #Pac12 #realignment

This is not a brand-new idea. But it makes more sense than ever now.

Here's an idea: Set up football-only college conferences https://sports.yahoo.com/heres-an-idea-set-up-football-only-college-conferences-214244420.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via @YahooSports #CollegeFootball #ncaa #football #CollegeSports #SEC #ACC #Pac12 #B1G #Big12 #basketball

We're going to find out a lot about hypocrisy and truth if the remaining #PAC12 schools bolt for the #ACC or the #Big12.

Just saying, everyone's outraged about the plight of the student athletes right up until they're not.

Money changes how people see things.

🤣
If you've been paying attention to the #PAC12's demise, this should strike you as amusing.

These two schools were the sources of false info fed to Canzano and others, and the reason why GK felt he had the luxury of time on his side.

Read Luke re the demise of the #PAC12.

As I said earlier, you can't possibly believe that UW, UO made flip-flop-flips within a few hours on a decision that would affect their schools for decades or that UA's decision hinged on others.

To do so is to have a low opinion of the presidents and ADs of UW, UO, and UA.

Everyone's board mtgs (OR, WA, AZ) were before Friday morning.

They were moving on, period.

The revisionist history Canzano is peddling is nonsense.
https://twitter.com/ironmikeluke/status/1688300280545411072

The honest statement would have been:

"We failed to hold this historic conference together. We regret our failure and apologize to our student-athletes, alumni, schools, and fans."

#PAC12

'“We were literally hours away from a deal that everybody could embrace,” Barnes said.'
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No, you weren't. This is the fantasy you told yourself, then told others who publicized this fantasy.

You had years to stop this, but in the end you liked the easy money coming in from the sugar daddy of the conference.

The hypocritical irony of course is that the only way to keep the #PAC12 alive is to destroy other conferences and traditions, now.
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/08/oregon-state-ad-scott-barnes-livid-about-pac-12-defections-puts-this-university-in-harms-way.html

On the precipice of the #PAC12 collapsing, people are now coming out on the side against monied interests. And I'm like...really?

Where were you 30 years ago? Did you give two shits when ESPN cornered the market on the BCS? Why did you allow naming rights of stadiums and bowls to move forward?

What if the PAC-12 had caused the collapse of the #Big-12 just 2 years ago?

Want to go back to when it wasn't all about the money?

1995.

Any later than that, you're a hypocrite.

Canzano-Wilner podcast before #PAC12 media days: The conference has some breathing room to get a better deal than #Big12

Canzano-Wilner podcast after #ColoradoBuffs leave: The PAC-12 needs to act within a week and show a number that is sufficient to hold the conference together.

Canzano-Wilner podcast on the eve before an expected ASU-UA departure announcement: Trust is needed to hold the PAC-12 together.

:thinkerguns: 🤣

We started the week with uncertainty about #ArizonaWildcats, but now everyone is saying the fate of the #PAC12 will be decided by Friday.

- #Big12 mtg to extend invite to #ASU and Arizona (maybe #UtahUtes, too)
- ASU now ready to agree to go along with Arizona's expected move to Big-12
- #B1G has set up exploration of adding #OregonDucks and #WashingtonHuskies
- Oregon still open to Big-12
- Washington has stopped talking w/ Big-12
- #GK talked to #MWC re merger if the PAC-12 loses more schools