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and actually a disproportionate amount seemingly from Aggie. what gives ?

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We had recent up close experiences with them

Pigs would hate them too but they have kinda checked out of football

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If the Pac 12 would have signed that media rights deal instead of completely overvaluing that they were worth it would not have fallen apart.

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By then it was too late. The "overvalue" was partially because that it what was needed to keep the conference competitive with B1G and SEC.

The PAC died because:

1. It could never poach Texas. This move might have saved it but they weren't going to let Texas have a LHN that they were sold on.

2. They kept ownership of the PAC Network. Where the SEC and B1G partnered with ESPN and Fox respectively, the PAC decided to keep total ownership of their network which made negotiating with cable companies extra tough. They should have sold half to Fox day one, which would have kept Fox interested in keeping the conference alive. I would argue the real date the PAC died was the day when DirectTV decided to never carry the network. That was the day this mistake was made obvious, they got greedy wanting all the upside of the network and were left with nothing.

3. They got arrogant about their location. They thought being isolated on the West Coast made them safe, so when USC started pushing for uneven payouts they told USC to frick off because no one imagined USC really had options due to geographic limitations. A USC in the Big 12 was ridiculous, and that was the only conference nearby. The B1G poach that ended it was maybe the single most stunning move in conference realignment to date.

Good job Sarge

Yeah I like the Bucky hire too

And I don't hate the Elko extension given what poor Ole Miss is going through

I mean his cheapness did run off our baseball coach, but how much of that was Alberts and how much was the department dealing with the Jimbo buyout?

There is also the issue that Auburn has to play Bama and Georgia every year going forward

Took me five years to get over 10k posts and I lived on here back then

If it was one of our players saying that during one of our 8-4 years Texas fans would be saying “Oh poor delusional Aggy”

Take some of your own medicine

Obvious answer is D more upside

I feel like for all the heat he got he made some amazing hires against the odds in revenue sports and handled the obviously difficult politics of LSU better than LSU’s last AD.