I had to go look on Google. No track and a lot of construction nearby. Honestly JTS has had a lot of improvements in the last 20 so we should keep that in mind maybe.
The news here in AZ has picked up on the Pac 12 expansion today.
The only way the PAC expands is if ESPN pays them to take schools so they can move OU & UT sooner and escape or greatly reduce penalties, and even then that deal better not be a 5 or 6 year deal because there is no guarantee of the 2nd contract. But I don't see it the PAC institutions look down on the Big 12 especially since OU & UT are gone.
Do you really think the headliners USC, OR & UW want to fly to fly over country and play the remaining schools in the Big 12 instead of flying a few more miles and playing OSU,UM, Neb, Wisky, PSU? I just doubt it. Maybe there is some value in adding a time slot or two to live content for a network but the two leagues could create a joint network also and accomplish the same thing. Bowlsby said the tv revenue(minus CFP, bowl & NCAA $$) is now declined from 28M to 14M. How does that increase revenue in the PAC and why would the top 46 brands ever stay in that scenario?
I think its more likely Bowlsby and the PAC AD met and discussed what if's in the case 4-6 schools head to the B1G from the PAC.
ISU hopes they somehow get one of the last slots in the B1G adding AAU teams but the chances are very unlikely. Then we all throw a parade and can't believe how well this worked out.
Whats probably going to happen instead is the B1G poaches some of the PAC and the Big 12 gets a couple leftover PAC schools out of AZ/ASU/Utah & Colorado.
The revenue difference is going to suck but I'm kind of warming up to a league of adding 2-4 of those plus Houston and BYU. It will be a fun league I think. I'm guessing WVU finds somewhere out East to play and that stops the talk of Cincy/UCF/USF/Memphis. Those type of schools probably join with ACC leftovers and you have two leagues by geographically that get paid 25-33% of what the B1G/SEC get. Basketball should at least be able to survive on that, maybe football gets a bid to the playoffs from those leagues.