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  • Ice_Holmvik
    Ice_Holmvik Member Posts: 2,912
    And the only really acceptable outcome.
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 6,005 Swaye's Wigwam
    Wilner is the west coasts version of Finebaum. You love and hate him, but ultimately he's the #1 source for information. What other sources do we? have that are reliable and cover the entire conference that have his coverage? Not many.
  • LawDawg1
    LawDawg1 Member Posts: 3,945

    Wilner is the west coasts version of Finebaum. You love and hate him, but ultimately he's the #1 source for information. What other sources do we? have that are reliable and cover the entire conference that have his coverage? Not many.

    Adam Jude was solid
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,010
    If you look at that map having the LA schools in the Big10 without more west coast teams coming isn’t sustainable….it’s just a matter of who, and how much they can play hardball and negotiate down the money for whoever they bring.

    If the rest of the Pac had any balls they would cancel every game in every sport against the LA schools and force those teams into crazy travel schedules to play anybody…won’t change much but would be a huge FU to them for screwing the rest of the Pac over and would really screw with their athletic departments. But pretty much everyone in any position of power on the West Coast are p*ssies and it would never happen.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    edited July 2022

    If you look at that map having the LA schools in the Big10 without more west coast teams coming isn’t sustainable….it’s just a matter of who, and how much they can play hardball and negotiate down the money for whoever they bring.

    If the rest of the Pac had any balls they would cancel every game in every sport against the LA schools and force those teams into crazy travel schedules to play anybody…won’t change much but would be a huge FU to them for screwing the rest of the Pac over and would really screw with their athletic departments. But pretty much everyone in any position of power on the West Coast are p*ssies and it would never happen.

    No doubt that half of the conference AD’s will be having farewell ceremonies when SC visits this year and next.

    As per usual, no one will care about UCLA.
  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,716 Standard Supporter

    How can anybody look at this and keep going on about how it's all about media markets? The most valuable college football property is obviously the SEC, the map in the above link would have you believe that their media market footprint is absolute garbage. It is clear that marketing and "being good at football" are also a huge part of the value proposition a school brings.
    Colin Cowturd was talking about how most of the PAC schools are located in cities that have other pro sorts teams they have to compete with for customers. True for at least half of them.