I think that's right, with the caveat that I've read that the Big Ten doesn't want to be catalyst to destroy the Pac 12, so they'll wait for the Big 12 to pick off Utah, AZ, and AZ St., then swoop in for their take. Sadly, that leaves OR St. and WA St. without a home, which is too bad.
Ha, totally agree. I'm sure they tell themselves they only critically wounded it though.
Other than Arizona basketball and softball and maybe Arizona State baseball, does anyone outside of Arizona even care?
This would be the cosmic one, the big 12 survived the Texas/OK move by being aggressive, looks like Pac whatever will collapse because they went passive after their hit. If Clemson/FSU leave, what tack will the ACC take, won't be much left if they want to be aggressive, UConn and who else? USF? I have always thought the Big10 would go after UVA and UNC, if the ACC loses the big 2, other schools will be looking for a lifeline.
BC makes sense for Big 10 for lacrosse and field hockey reasons, too. (same with UNC). And w soccer too for the 4 of 5 non-Miami schools you mentioned.
They have banked on the GOR saving them for years and just done nothing
The Pac-##'s lengthy media rights negotiation apparently ended with AppleTV+ as the lead contender. I can't imagine that went over particularly well.
My thoughts as well. Dan Wolken sums it up pretty nicely here:
Trying to get into the SEC obviously. They need enough schools to dump the ACC at the same time because the buyout is so massive. If you think you are maybe 1-2 schools short, maybe this is an attempt to flip one of the holdouts.
Yeah it’s tough to consider (but as an SU alum, I have to) what this all means for the Orange. I’m sure they didn’t envision this when joining the ACC.
I wonder if there will be a lot of Olympic programs disbanded at schools. Perhaps more regional leagues for them.
Probably not. Going to have to strategically plan road trips, have travel partners like USC/UCLA, Illinois/NW, etc. share charters, if no charter than commercial trips to major cities will be multiple games long(think Illinois/NW, Rutgers/MD, Penn St/MD, UCLA/USC).
My friend's daughter plays in a non-revenue sport at a D1 school (lacrosse). As I understand it, they do a lot of travel to a location where they play 2-3 games over a couple of days against different opponents (i.e. not just the host). I think the days of the "home and home" series are probably over.
Why? They get a much bigger cut of the TV deal and get to ease their travel burden a bit.
I think they wanted to bolt to get away from Oregon. Money is the same regardless for them and they lose that recruiting push they had for a few months.
