PAC-10 EXPANSION: Texas declines

about Utah? I sure wasn’t. I hope A&M blows up the Beebe deal and Pac-16 is back on the table shortly.

Come on UO/OSU/A&M, please walk. Please please please. I was so set on this happening…

Just wow.

Moos talked about this. If we add 2 teams and create 2 divisions this can be bad for us. If we are not in the California division this will hurt our recruiting and isolate us from that market. We will not have that presence that Moos was worried about.

Pac-XVI GOOD! Pac-XII BAD

Fox basically decided the best place for Texas (and Fox) was the Big 12. As opposed to a Pac-16

Surprises coming when deal is announced — if it will be announced.

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Then that improves the Pac-10 chances for TV revenue in a bidding war between Fox and ESPN. It still sucks that the TV networks are deciding all of this. I know that was what it was about anyway, but them moving in before hand sucks even more.

I’d gotten so excited. I’m almost unhappy about Colorado joining because it’s just part of what I hoped for instead of all.

How are they benefiting from any of this? There is no way staying in a 10 team league were Texas and maybe OU dominate is better for them than going to the Pac-10 and forming a mega-conference.

Something tells me Larry Scott is not done, through this whole thing he actually seems to be doing everything right and being very proactive about everything, I have a feeling he will not be happy with this and will be working very hard now to convince schools like Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and maybe even Kansas and Missouri that it would be better for them to come over to the Pac-10 (I think working on Kansas really Missouri about leaving the Big 12 might work as they both seem to have been shafted in all this expansion talk by their own conference) and then basically forces Texas to come as well. I just don’t see these schools staying in a conference that allows the best team to get double the money they will get will benefit them at all.

As a die hard purple and gold Husky fan I hope this all ends soon with Utah joining the new PAC 10. As fun as the last few days have been, my head is spinning. As good as it sounded having Texas, Oklahoma, and the rest of the Big XII n the PAC, in hindsight, especially consider the arrogance displayed by Texas the last week or so, it may very well be best for all them to stay where they are. It’s very possible that down the road our conference would have developed the same problems that engulfed the Big XII in the first place. I mean really, we all that USC was bad, or even us, Texas takes the cream. Colorado and Utah are good fits, much better than the football factories under consideration, and will make the conference much better. I can see you all’s point about how this may or may not harm WSU. If we don’t add Utah or go to twelve, than what was the point of adding Colorado last week. What do we really gain. Adding a Denver market, a market that CU doesn’t really have a hold over (a very pro sports team kind of town), won’t really add to our TV deal either. The only way the conference comes out ahead is if we add a 12th team. You got to have 12 teams to have a conference title game, and there’s to much money on the line not to have that title game. A conference title game gives the conference increase exposure, especially in November and December. Maybe we can get more than one BCS bid from time to time. The combines SLC and Denver market would be the 3rd largest in the conference. I see your point about recruiting; although, it really doesn’t effect UW that much. I would think that a California kid not going to one of the big schools is just as likely to go to WSU as they would Utah or Colorado. WSU is still the west coast, not out in the Rocky Mountains some where, and still in the conference. Who knows, the increase exposure in the Rocky Mountain states might open up recruiting markets that have more of the type of kids WSU tends to recruit. Just my thoughts, here’s hoping it works for everyone, even you guys.

I don’t see the odd number being great for WSU.

We already suffer from the “its in the middle of nowhere” and “everybody hates making the trip to Pullman”. Now add the “well WSU is going to be bounced within a year or two from the Pac”, and I find recruiting that much more difficult.

I think we all spoke way too soon on Larry Scott masterfully piecing this together. It looks like he (and the other 4 non-Texas B12 schools) were worked over by Texas. I can’t believe that those 4 other teams are going to let Texas have so much control especially now there is no Nebraska to help even out the voices. I will be interested in seeing if the numbers really do come-out to be that benefiicial for an Okla St or even Texas Tech.