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(05-11-2018 05:15 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  
(05-11-2018 02:06 PM)PK_UToledo Wrote:  I also think time is of the essence here. On any given Saturday afternoon, no matter the time zone, you turn on college football, and you will see a SEC or B1G game, possibly an ACC big game as well. The PAC games are now relegated to evenings out west, which is quite late in the east. USC, and on any given year, Oregon, Stanford, or Washington might also get a game or two during the day here and there, but most of the games are now late. Recruits are not going to want to go play out there where their media exposure is less, and their chances to be scouted by the pros or win the big awards are diminished. Until west coast games get the same exposure on a national level as the other P5 conferences in all sports, they are going to continue to suffer and decline in talent and stature.

I remember in the early to mid 90’s people were saying the PAC 10 was on life support; close to irrelevant. The WAC was having years where they were hanging tough with them in football and basketball...USC was down. The Big West FB conference died. The SWC died. The WAC died. The Big 12 damn near died. The PAC is next...But it never happens. I suppose the PAC demise will happen sometime since its doom has been predicted for decades....

Yes, all signs actually indicate that the PAC is right there with the B1G and SEC in terms of stability.

Gripes from PAC members are uniformly about making the PAC better, as in improving anemic PAC network revenues, not existential threats about breaking it up.

Hey, I saw the Berlin Wall and Twin Towers fall, so really nothing surprises me anymore, but the PAC losing members isn't high on my list of likely realignment changes.
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(05-14-2018 02:11 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(05-11-2018 05:15 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  
(05-11-2018 02:06 PM)PK_UToledo Wrote:  I also think time is of the essence here. On any given Saturday afternoon, no matter the time zone, you turn on college football, and you will see a SEC or B1G game, possibly an ACC big game as well. The PAC games are now relegated to evenings out west, which is quite late in the east. USC, and on any given year, Oregon, Stanford, or Washington might also get a game or two during the day here and there, but most of the games are now late. Recruits are not going to want to go play out there where their media exposure is less, and their chances to be scouted by the pros or win the big awards are diminished. Until west coast games get the same exposure on a national level as the other P5 conferences in all sports, they are going to continue to suffer and decline in talent and stature.

I remember in the early to mid 90’s people were saying the PAC 10 was on life support; close to irrelevant. The WAC was having years where they were hanging tough with them in football and basketball...USC was down. The Big West FB conference died. The SWC died. The WAC died. The Big 12 damn near died. The PAC is next...But it never happens. I suppose the PAC demise will happen sometime since its doom has been predicted for decades....

Yes, all signs actually indicate that the PAC is right there with the B1G and SEC in terms of stability.

Gripes from PAC members are uniformly about making the PAC better, as in improving anemic PAC network revenues, not existential threats about breaking it up.

Hey, I saw the Berlin Wall and Twin Towers fall, so really nothing surprises me anymore, but the PAC losing members isn't high on my list of likely realignment changes.

I agree. But I would go further. The same things that PAC members gripe about (and which they can do little to fix) are visible to potential new members outside their current footprint, and would not be fixed by adding members within their existing footprint. So, unless the Big 12 were to implode, and maybe even then, what the PAC is now is likely what they will be for quite a while. All they can do is learn to live with it.
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