Why did the pac 10 give up?

Larry Scott and George Kliavkoff completely fricked up their media rights deals.

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With teams like:

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Washington
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UCLA

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leaving for the BIG10? do you really not know why they gave up?

Because they only had 4 brands with any value. The B1G offered them more money and exposure. Being in a national conference puts them in a better place than being in a regional one.

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Something about Baylor alum TX State legislators

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When the SWC died, Texas and TAMU were flirting with the SEC. When Texas governor Ann Richards (Baylor alumn) and Lt. governor Bob Bullock (Texas Tech alum) heard the schools might join, they basically threatened to pull financial support for both of us if Baylor and Texas Tech weren't involved in whatever happened post-SWC.

Thus the Big 12 was born on a foundation of sand, by merging with the Big 8, a conference full of schools who would've rather gone B1G (or in Colorado's case, PAC).

That said, in 2010, I did hear rumblings that Stanford/Cal would veto any deal that included a religious school like Baylor.

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leaving for the BIG10?


do you really not know why they gave up?

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I get that,

But why did they leave?


Don’t misunderstand


I think the pac 10 has been seriously overrated for decades

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That said, in 2010, I did hear rumblings that Stanford/Cal would veto any deal that included a religious school like Baylor.

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And now they get to hang out with BC and Wake.

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That said, in 2010, I did hear rumblings that Stanford/Cal would veto any deal that included a religious school like Baylor.

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And now they run to the ACC with Duke(Methodist & Quaker) and Wake Forest (Baptist). Desperation makes strange bedfellows.

It's honestly down to lack of give a frick by most if not all the PAC fanbases. I remember a few years back we played USC in LA and the TV talking heads said that was the first sellout game for USC in years. Oh, and that's in spite of the week before our game being a matchup of two top 5 teams (at the time) in USC vs Stanford. Southern Cal has many Stanford alums, but very few who give two shits about the football team.

Being a west coaster as a sports fan is definitely the best situation because football Saturdays and Sundays are an all day event, from getting up to going to bed.

However, since the east coast is a bunch of punk bitches that tap out after a couple of games, the west coast games just don't get the full potential audience they could. It's an east coast bias thing that permeates everything, but does make sense.

Since time zones exist, the only way the western schools can be included in the national picture at a real level is to be a part of a nationwide league, and even then they can't bring as much as an east coast schools just based on the day travelling from east to west.

There could probably be a Bama-type legacy program in Bakersfield and they wouldn't have the draw of the actual Alabama just based on half of their games being at night on the west coast while 50% of the people east of the Mississippi won't be awake at the end of the game.