Pac 12... 11... 10... 9... 8... 7...6...5...4... POOF!

adding Oregon/Washington would put the Big-10 at 18. SEC will have 16; Big-12 at least 14, sames as ACC

it's the way things are heading and it's driven by media. FOX has wanted UofO/UofW in the Big-10 since the USC/UCLA news. With the potential demise of the PAC, FOX really wants to have those later time slots on Saturday nights as well as occasionally on Friday nights. With 4 Pacific coast teams, they'll have the content to fill those slots. Reportedly, the Big-10 has been hesitant about adding the Ducks/Huskies, but that's when they thought they could add them according to their own time-frame. But the Big-10 doesn't want to lose those schools to the Big-12, and Fox doesn't want to lose them to ESPN

it's a long long ways from being a done deal yet. Still a lot of monkey-wrenches in the way. But the tea leaves sure seem to indicate it as a lot closer to probability than it has ever been

 

Unfortunately the meeting didn't go as Oregon State had hoped, still a chance to be included but their confidence was not founded.

 

this just sucks

STOMP

 

Well if the Ducks and Beavers do end up in different conferences, the one thing I won't miss is playing the Civil War in cold rainy conditions. Play it in September.

 

Exactly my first thought

 

Think I'm resigned to Beavs going to the WAC or something. Just don't see why any major conference is going to want them.

 

with the rumors/news that Arizona is about to join the Big-12:

Pac-8 (1964)--->Pac-10 (1978)--->Pac-12 (2011)--->Pac-8 (2024)

it's come full circle

now, if ASU & Utah go to the Big-12, it could be the Pac-6

(I've been told that the Big-12 views Arizona+Colorado as a good pairing and would much prefer Oregon+Washington as the next pairing over Utah/ASU, but will settle for the latter. Ducks/Huskies don't want the Big-12 at all, but may have no choice)

OSU/WSU aren't completely isolated...Cal/Stanford are still hanging around and of course UofO/UofW haven't landed anywhere yet and as of now, Utah/ASU are still in the PAC

(I've also been told: several Big-10 presidents & chancellors actually lean toward Cal/Stanford over UofO/UofW because of their academic prestige and research budgets, but that the Big-10 media partners, especially FOX, have pushed back hard against Cal/Stanford over UofO/UofW. They want the eyeballs that Ducks/Huskies would bring. There are apparently escalator clauses in the Big-10 media deal for additions like UofO/UofW and Notre Dame, but it's up to the discretion of media and they won't add any money for the Bay Area schools)

whether or not the guy telling me these things actually has good info I don't know. He admits it's 2nd-hand info and isn't very confident about it. There are also some vague rumors about the ACC being interested in a Pacific coast alliance by adding UofO/UofW/Cal/Stanford and maybe Utah/ASU. But I haven't heard anything about any major conference interest in OSU/WSU

just to add to the 'what-I've-been-told-that-may-or-may-not-be-true' from above:

if Oregon goes to the Big-10 and OSU goes to the MWC, the chances that Oregon would agree to an annual home-and-home game with OSU are pretty low. None of the elite teams like OSU, Alabama, Georgia, LSU are dumb enough to schedule annual 'trap' games, especially against non-power-5 opponents. And the elite schools only play out-of-conference games on the road once about every 3 or 4 years. There would be no upside in playing the Beavs every year, only downside.

 

I used to be a big college athletics fan. I preferred it to professional sports... but all that changed for me ~10-12 years ago.

I don't watch football at all anymore. Im sick of the conference realignment merry-go-round.

Only basketball Ill watch is the last ~5 minutes of a March madness game that has potential to be an upset

They really did destroy a good thing

 

The transfer portal and NIL have really killed the sport for me. And now super conferences are the nail in the coffin. Might as well just watch the NFL. There’s more parity in the NFL.

 

If/when the PAC collapses that might be it for me, too. Although I place a lot of blame on Gary Andersen. It will be a real shame if the beavs really did end up in the WAC and the civil war is only every couple years or some bullshit. I won't blame the ducks like some other OSU hardcore's undoubtedly will. Eugene and Phil have to look out for themselves and I can't blame them. This may be Corvallis' last hurrah at running the table for a Rose Bowl bid though. Give 'em hell this year!!!

 

Fox is pushing both b10&12.

 

Why are you here then?

 

Jonathan Smith*

How disrespectful.