Big Ten preview games this season:
- Week 3: Washington @ Michigan State
- Week 7: Oregon @ Washington
- Week 10: Washington @ USC
- Week 11: USC @ Oregon
- Week 12: UCLA @ USC
Khavanon
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It's bittersweet for me as an Oregon fan. I've watched the Pac-10/12 for 30 years, and I've loved watching my team play everyone in this conference. I know there's a lot of anger out there right now and it's justified. I want to keep playing the Beavers every year, but if they want to tell us where to shove it, I get it.
Sources: Big Ten has begun preliminary talks to potentially add Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford
I don't expect this to be resolved before the Big XII 2024 lineup is finally set, but this might push the remaining four corner schools to move more urgently. If the Big Ten is talking about it now, then there was probably a lot of weight to that "blood on hands for delivering the killing stroke to the Pac" argument. Still doesn't mean it will happen, but it would leave the Pac-12 North in a tight spot if it didn't. I'm sure the B1G's preference is to integrate two schools at a time, but if they have any interest in getting any more schools for a discount, they most likely will.
UO and UW definitely want to have that linear exposure, and it sounds like there won't be much of that with this deal. I don't know how either of them would sign this deal, even if they didn't care about the money, and even if they had to wait some years to join the B1G if that's an option.
Oregon's beat writer, James Crepea, just tweeted that "Multiple Pac-12 ADs told me this winter/spring streaming only was not acceptable."
I think Stewart Mandel said it best, "Larry Scott sold the schools on the Pac-12 Network based on how much revenue they could hit based on low/medium/high subscriber projections. It turned out to be below low. Hard to imagine the schools making another risky bet on a newish platform."
I think the SEC can get away with pioneering something like this, maybe the Big Ten. I don't see it working for the Pac.
Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff set to present media rights deal to member schools, per reports
Wonder if it’s something like CU’s leaving pushed others into the mindset of “show us and we might leave, or don’t and we WILL leave”.
Probably the Big XII telling schools they've got to plan out their 2024 season, and with only 11 months left they're already pushing it. Then again, the Pac's in the same crunch.
Dame wanted to have a "puncher's chance" at contending, and he can do that in a number of places. As a Blazer fan I want Dame to succeed, and I want him to get what he wants, but I also don't want my franchise to be on the ass-end of a terrible trade. I really think if he had given us a few options that this would be over by now. People have questioned whether a number of Cronin's previous trades weren't perhaps overpays for what they got in return, but he always sent his players to places and situations they wanted to be in (Powell/Covington to LA, McCollum/Nance to NOLA, Hart to NY, Payton II to GSW). Doesn't mean we have to entertain unreasonable offers if that's what they are.
As a PAC team fan, I watched the Big Ten and Big XII media deal rumors and how quickly and precisely and positively they came, and spent the last year seeing just the opposite for us; no solid details, no real positive news or leaks at all. It never felt like there was ever any substance being floated out there for us, and for me personally it's felt like Kliavkoff has done nothing but string everybody along.
And maybe it's his job to do anything to keep the member schools together, and maybe vaguery and delay were his only weapons, and maybe he's been holding out and hoping for something agreeable to eventually materialize, but it sure has been a long year+ on this nothing-burger he's been trying to sell us on. I suspect Colorado leaving will deliver a big blow to that plan, if that's all he's been up to.
Nic Batum had a terrible performance in Summer League and Jerryd Bayless was an MVP. But if Scoot and Sharpe go off, hall-of-fame talk only for these guys.
Eight days until the draft. Rumors are going to start to heat up.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to savor it a bit and add a little at a time, but I'm never going back.
I used to be an /r/CFB Poll member, but I deleted my Reddit account toward the end of the 2017 season. They've started ramping up again this week, and I was waffling about whether or not I was going to do the work to keep track of my own poll throughout this season, but if you're going to do one here maybe it'll give me an excuse. Give me a few hours and I'll put a vote in there.