I think if they had pulled off adding Memphis, Tulane, USF, and UTSA, thereby gobbling up all the good G5 schools that are left, they would have taken the final guaranteed conference champ spot in the playoffs almost every year. I think that's what they were aiming for - near-guaranteed playoff access.
Again, literally in contact with Berkeley movers and shakers yesterday. You have bad contacts or contacts who are just as out of touch as you. It shows in your posts - just like it shows that you literally don't know what a P5 conference is n
Yes, but I believe a well-built new Pac-12 would be P5. It depends on what they can rebuild. Getting Cal/Stanford back would help get back to P5. I don't know if the Pac-12 can do that good of a rebuild, but that's what they are looking at. The Pac-2 (and more) will have a bunch of money for a number of years, from the departing schools as well as from ncaa tourney shares. Perhaps that will not be possible, but things continue to change. The ACC is going to work for Cal and Stanford. Too distant and too expensive, and low shares for years.
I think their attempt to get Memphis and friends was their best chance at anything remotely close. They still would have been paid half that the Big XII is, a quarter of the B1G, but may have secured nearly guaranteed playoff access as the 5th conference champ. I think that's what they were aiming for.
Sure, but that isn't going to happen.
Could you please speak in full sentences and English.
How to you know? The ACC isn't going to work for Stanford/Cal.
Could you please point out which words you don't recognize as English so I can sub in appropriate shorter, lower reading level words for you.
Maybe..maybe not, but currently they are financially tied to the ACC for the next decade plus unless Clemson and FSU win their lawsuit.
Perhaps, but with money and a change at a good tv contract, some schools might become available.
They would sue to get out of the financial stuff, and if the ACC was changing a lot, they'd have a good chance of getting out of most of that contract stuff in the early years. This is some of what I did for a living for 45 years.
And I think they will win their lawsuit.
Like who? They won't get a better tv deal than the P4 and probably the AAC. The PAC has very few options remaining.
Just because you are trying taking swings to back your point of view doesn't make it true. Currently they are financially tied.
www.si.com
I advised companies on things like this for 45 years. I know how to get out of contracts. It happens all the time. You are not a big thinker.
If the Pac-12 can get a good rebuild going, and attract some good schools, including ones like Cal/Stanford, their tv contract would be much much bigger than that. You are a small thinker. Too young to know how the world works.
Of course it makes for good headlines, just like lots of BS does. No one with any real power at either school is considering it. They actively laugh at these suggestions.I'm not the only one thinking of this scenario.
SI: "Could Stanford be on its way back to the Pac-12?"
"Rejoining the Pac would make sense for a multitude of reasons. First, both the schools would return to playing games in their geographic regions, once again playing games exclusively on the West Coast. This season, Stanford is slated to play teams like Syracuse, Clemson and Notre Dame on the road, making the travel schedule a very challenging one for them. Also, having college athletes, who have classes to worry about, travel to games across the country many times throughout the season could cause issues in terms of staying on top of their schoolwork. For prestigious academic institutions like Cal and Stanford, that could create some problems both on and off the field."
WATCH: Stanford Provides Plenty of Highlights in ACC Win Over Syracuse
There has been a lot of chatter over how Stanford will handle being in the ACC, which comes with a lot of extra travel baked into their schedules across sports.
Stanford/Cal could win a lawsuit to get out of the contractual stuff, or most of it, if the ACC started changing in a big way. Fraud on ACC's part.
Sure, but that doesn't do anything for the conference now.
Things are changing fast in realignment. Big boys in the old Pac-12 are in fact thinking about things like this. You never played football, or presumably any sport. You certainly haven't run any business. You are too young to know what goes on in the world.
