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

[julius]

Stanford and Cal are probably like "wait...we had our fingers crossed"

 

[BBert]

Stanford and Cal have to be tripping, lol.

But it should open the door for OSU and WSU.

To do what?

 

[wizenheimer]

To do what?

probably not much

this could be a giant legal fight that lasts a damn long time. If the ACC did dissolve, the elite teams of the conference: FSU, Clemson, Miami, NC, Louisville, Virginia....will be cherry picked by the Big-10 and SEC. That would leave the dregs a bottom feeders dangling.

I wouldn't be surprised to see counter-suits by the lesser teams because they have a near-guaranteed baseline of 30M year till 2036. If the ACC dissolves, those teams will lose millions of dollars over the next 13 years. It could approach 200M each because they Big-12 couldn't absorb them all. Might not want ta absorb any

and the idea that OSU/WSU could reform a PAC by adding Cal/Stanford and teams like Duke, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Wake Forest, Boston College abd command any kind of substantial media deal seem mostly fantasy. They might be looking at 15M/year, or less while taking on big travel expenses

 

[MickZagger]

Interesting thing.... the WCC schools average about 9,500 student enrollment. Crazy small.

Most of them (maybe all) are private schools. Where you gotta pay the bookoo bucks. My cousins went to Santa Clara where it’s like 50k a year to send your kid there

 

[THE HCP]

Most of them (maybe all) are private schools. Where you gotta pay the bookoo bucks. My cousins went to Santa Clara where it’s like 50k a year to send your kid there

Yeah all WCC schools are private. Now they average $78-83k a year!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The Year College Football Ate Itself
After months of maneuvering and spending—farewell, Pac 12; hello $75 million for Jimbo Fisher—it’s impossible to pretend it’s anything but another ruthless business

https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/college-pac-12-jimbo-fisher-dc80521f

 

[wizenheimer]

The Year College Football Ate Itself
After months of maneuvering and spending—farewell, Pac 12; hello $75 million for Jimbo Fisher—it’s impossible to pretend it’s anything but another ruthless business

https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/college-pac-12-jimbo-fisher-dc80521f

it's been a "ruthless business" for decades

it can no longer hide behind the pathetic facade of 'amateur sport' or enjoy the protection of having it's anti-trust business model ignored by the courts. The courts have noticed and gutted the NCAA's power to grift off of the incredibly cheap labor of the athletes while restricting those same athlete's rights to share in the revenue they create

it's just all out in the open now....except of course for the reality you can't say NIL without mentioning NDA