Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

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I'd love the idea that Washington and Oregon will be inclined to come over, but the more I think about it, it could be more likely they go independent in football together and park Olympic sports in another league. Doing so makes them available to the Big Ten at any time without sharing their value across many other teams in a diluted Pac. With an addition of SMU and SDSU and the risk of losing teams to the Big 12, they would need an iron clad guarantee that the rebuilt Pac league would have a playoff slot for them or they have little reason to stay.
 
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So let me get this straight. In one day:
1. Mandel finally admits that the PAC is failing
2. We see signs of Arizona/ASU cracking
3. The OU/Texas early exit gets done and we get PAID
4. Dellenger reports that Yormark will now “aggressively pursue expansion.”

What a day. I am HYPED!!
 

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Why take both Arizona schools? Wouldn't just one of them add more value on a per school basis?

BYU, Arizona, Colorado.

That's best of mountain time zone. ASU could come along if they are committed to being a good partner. It seems like Utah is obsessed with a fantasy that they beat BYU through realignment already.

Everything I hear is that Arizona might even come completely on their own if they must. Especially if Washington and/or Oregon carve out some unequal BS.
 

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If the Pac is truly looking at SMU...the Big 12 hit an absolute home run with the four adds.

If the PAC is truly looking at SMU, the league is done. Might still exist in name, but all rats will be looking to jump ship.
 

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I'd love the idea that Washington and Oregon will be inclined to come over, but the more I think about it, it could be more likely they go independent in football together and park Olympic sports in another league. Doing so makes them available to the Big Ten at any time without sharing their value across many other teams in a diluted Pac. With an addition of SMU and SDSU and the risk of losing teams to the Big 12, they would need an iron clad guarantee that the rebuilt Pac league would have a playoff slot for them or they have little reason to stay.

What if the Big 10 invite never comes? I can't imagine how many millions of dollars they would lose by not being in a conference.
 
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If the PAC is truly looking at SMU, the league is done. Might still exist in name, but all rats will be looking to jump ship.
What if the Big 10 invite never comes? I can't imagine how many millions of dollars they would lose by not being in a conference.

BYU was not exactly hitting it out of the park as a fb independent those few years and I think they were set up at least as well if not better than either of them.

I’m also not sure a mwc or WCC would want them for non fb sports as it seems far fetched they’d be long term members.
 
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What if the Big 10 invite never comes? I can't imagine how many millions of dollars they would lose by not being in a conference.

They'd effectively be in a conference with Army, Notre Dame, and UCONN. those 5 would schedule amongst themselves in November as they'd be the only available opponents.

On that note, is USC going to continue playing Notre Dame at the end of the season or will the Big10 out a stop to that?
 

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I'd love the idea that Washington and Oregon will be inclined to come over, but the more I think about it, it could be more likely they go independent in football together and park Olympic sports in another league. Doing so makes them available to the Big Ten at any time without sharing their value across many other teams in a diluted Pac. With an addition of SMU and SDSU and the risk of losing teams to the Big 12, they would need an iron clad guarantee that the rebuilt Pac league would have a playoff slot for them or they have little reason to stay.
Zero chance they go independent. They would get absolutely nothing for a media deal and would have an impossible time building a football schedule
 

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They'd effectively be in a conference with Army, Notre Dame, and UCONN. those 5 would schedule amongst themselves in November as they'd be the only available opponents.

On that note, is USC going to continue playing Notre Dame at the end of the season or will the Big10 out a stop to that?

Call it the 12 Insignificant Data Points Conference.
 

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Yes, but he positioned himself to do so. And since he's now focused on content related revenue, ESPN needs to be cost effective across the board. IMO, this is bad for P12 and good for all others in ESPN's camp ... unless ESPN goes belly up (which I doubt, but is a remote possibility due to their existing highly leveraged contracts). Seeing the streaming losses this past quarter are pretty staggering.
No it’s bad from the PAC-12 standpoint. I am talking solely about Disney dumping ESPN. He basically squashed that because live sports are still unmatched on linear and soon to be streaming in the future. They will just be much more diligent about what rights ESPN will bid on as the price for these leagues has gotten too insane. The NBA contract for ESPN alone is ridiculous.

And streaming losses were not staggering at all. They weren’t anywhere near as bad as the projection and Iger said they are on track to reach profitability by fiscal ‘24, which is October for Disney, and that was the plan from the get go when Disney+ was launched. In fact Wall Street was pleased at the trajectory that after hours that day, Disney stock was up 8% just due to that earnings release. So much to that Nelson Peltz dropped his proxy fight to get on the board due to Iger’s plan and the earnings call.
 
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They'd effectively be in a conference with Army, Notre Dame, and UCONN. those 5 would schedule amongst themselves in November as they'd be the only available opponents.

On that note, is USC going to continue playing Notre Dame at the end of the season or will the Big10 out a stop to that?
Doubt they will be able to play them at the end of the season, will have to be before conference play