After the last decade or so I am having a not-small amount of cognitive dissonance about the Pac 12, not the Big 12, being the doomed conference.
Itâs as simple as time zones. More people are awake to see the Big12 play.
The NCAA needs to get rid of these conferences identified by #s as in the # of the teams in the conference when the names (Big 12 i.e.) are ridiculously underrepresented of the entity. After all these are, supposedly, institutions of higher learning and their leadership apparently doesnât know kindergarten math.
The idea that the NCAA has anything to do with conferences is a fallacy.
Or maybe just false.
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Ok, fine. But my point stands. If you call yourself The Big 12 and have 14 teams which are the two that arenât Big? Maybe itâs time to come up with something more identifiable.
The Big 10 currently has 14, and next year will have 16. Plus two associate members who compete in sports other than football.
B1G is already taken, yet everyone still calls it the Big10. I guess you should rename the SEC since Oklahoma and Texas are definitely not in the Southeast. The ACC has teams that are not on the Atlantic coast. How deep does your college sports conference name OCD go?
Donât be so literal. The number twelve represents power and authority.
This conference goes to 11
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First thing I thought of, but I used that line recently and figured someone else should do it.
Second thing I thought of:
I would suggest that the conferences are waiting for the music to stop before they rebrand themselves, but that would be giving them a lot of credit.
Starting to look like the PAC# is not going to last the week
Why, whatâs the news?
Not really any ânewsâ but a bunch of rumblings after the meeting the conference had about the TV deal.
Multiple reports about the B1G presidents meeting about extending invitations to Cal, Stan, Wash, and Ore to join.
The Arizona board of regents, who run both Arizona schools, had a meeting, I think, on Monday about the future of college athletics in the state. Potentially including a move to the B12.
Either one of these would break whats left of the PAC12.
Thanks. Not sue why the B1G would take Cal and Stanford. Football is the bell cow, those schools bring no fans/TV sets and would just dilute the take of other members. In fact, Iâm not even sure theyâll be playing football in the future.
Marrying the AZ schools with the Big 12 seems like a good marriage, for both parties, IMO.
Utah, WSU, and Oregon State will really be scrambling to stay power 3 or 4.
It would be a shame to see BYU make the power conferences, and not the Utes.
My guess and I have seen reports to this affect is, if the Arizona schools jump, Utah will too.
Since they already have BYU, I would think the big 12 would take Utah and the Arizona schools to get to 16.
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