re: McMurphy: Pac-12 commish George Kliavkoff visiting SMU Wednesday

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How many of those tv’s are tuning into fricking New Mexico football?

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This could be said about all of the G5 teams being added to the Big 12 and the Pac 12, potentially.

It makes geographic sense, and brings a big TV market.

I mean, they are considering Tulane.

Tulane average about 20,000 people per regular season home game. New Mexico averaged about 15,000. Tulane had their best season in 25 years. New Mexico was 2-10.

I don't give a shite about either program, but at least one is a state school with SOME state-wide interest.

Few people in New Orleans care about Tulane. No one outside of New Orleans does.

I'm not knighting for New Mexico. I do, however, think it makes some marketing sense for the Pac 12 to make themselves the "Conference of the West" and adding New Mexico, UNLV and Boise State, and even SMU, would give them a presence in nearly every western state.

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Kliavkoff has said that the academic and religious snobbery of the past

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All this means is that they won't automatically disqualify a team for not being a member of the AAU. I believe currently OSU and WSU are the only non-AAU members, and they were package deals with Oregon and Washington. Boise is on par with ULM academically. When I said they made improvements I meant they went from a glorified JUCO to a bottom tier four year institution.

The PAC-12 (10?) is fricked. At this point, I would be shocked if the four corner schools don't bail ASAP:

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CBS & Turner are currently no longer involved in Pac-12’s media rights negotiations, sources told

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Basically they say the Big XII renewing their deal with ESPN and Fox kinda took the last big deal off the market. Fox isn't interested unless they get a deal for "pennies on the dollar", Amazon only wants the top game each week and not tonnage (i.e. no PAC 12 network games on Prime), Apple TV is the rumored third party interested in a deal but is still a streamer and much weaker than Amazon, none of the other big sports names are interested (i.e. TNT, CBS, NBC), Bob Iger reiterated in the Disney earnings call last week that ESPN is going to have to cut back on what rights it picks up and "be more selective."
The segment ends with the quote in the title "Things are not looking great right now for the PAC-12 from a linear perspective."

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You’re right Tulane football has mostly been bad, but all it took was one season to accomplish more than New Mexico has in its entire history.

Tulane comes with the risk of being dead weight but the upside is we have been on the big stage and won. Not many teams left in the G5 can say that

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B1G WEST:

USC
UCLA
Washington
Oregon
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Northwestern

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The soon to be Big 10 Commissioner is not in favor of adding Oregon or Washington. The Big 10 is focused on adding Virginia, Clemson, Miami, Notre Dame, and North Carolina or Florida State.

The Big 12 is finalizing the Gonzaga deal right now which should be announced in a few weeks. Then the 4 Corner schools. Washington & Oregon could join the Big 12 but it won't happen until 2025.

The MWC and remaining members of the Pac-12 will join together but the Pac-12 is finished.

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The soon to be Big 10 Commissioner is not in favor of adding Oregon or Washington.

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Which is who?

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All this means is that they won't automatically disqualify a team for not being a member of the AAU.

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No, what it means is they don't give a shite about academics.

It's a fricking sports league. I know they have spouted that nonsense in the past, but now they are about survival.

How many AAC teams are in the Mountain West? Because that's where they are headed.

They are aggressively courting San Diego State, and may have to fight the Big 12 for them. San Diego State is currently ranked 151 by US News, actually tied with Oregon State.

The Pac 12 schools have made fun of San Diego State's academics for years, now they are begging them to join the conference.

Boise State is obviously an even worse school, but above the 150 range, I'm not sure these schools see much difference between 150 and 300.

Besides, Kliavkoff has publicly stated it's not even a factor. They also had a no "religious school" policy, but are courting SMU.

It's a new world.

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A basketball team joining a football conference will mean that they will have no authority or power. They would be equals in the Big East.

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What are they gonna do the day when Gonzaga is a 200+ RPI non factor like they used to be and like they will be again one day?

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No, what it means is they don't give a shite about academics.

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I do not believe the presidents/deans of these institutions will want to be affiliated with a school ranked in the bottom 25% of four year institutions. That is the difference between 101-250 ranked institutions and 330+ ranked institutions. The AD's have talked them into being ok with 101-250 schools to save the conference. Boise academically is in a different stratosphere. There is a lot of 150-250 schools between Texas and Hawaii that make as much or more sense for the PAC to add.