(03-05-2020 04:03 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(03-05-2020 01:01 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(03-05-2020 05:37 AM)schmolik Wrote:  I know Bohm said everything is on the table but I'm trying to believe the four California schools being split up and I'm having a hard time with it.

I'm having a hard time with that as well. I'm also having a hard time imagining the California schools splitting from Washington and Oregon. But I could imagine those six splitting off from the rest of the PAC12.

Question: Does the PAC have an exit fee, and if so, how much is it?

Another question: Which conference would these six schools want to be a part of, and would that conference take them?

I'm not sure it would make financial sense for the B1G to take all six if they all received an equal share of conference revenues. That would likely dilute the payments current members now receive. Would they offer to bring those six in at some amount between what they are now getting and what B1G members are now getting? Would they agree to move without being given equal shares?

The Big XII could probably afford to bring them all in. And, they would still only be at 16 members if they did. But would those six schools want to be part of a conference they probably don't consider academic peers?

There doesn't seem to be a scenario I can imagine that makes everybody happy (or at least happier than they are now). Which is why I've believed for some time now that the current alignment might last for a long time barring some complete game changer.

They left Oregon behind in the 60s along with Idaho, WSU and OSU. But they did bring UW along.

The old PCC started falling apart in the late 1950's with payment scandals at UCLA, Washington, and others. Stanford moved to expel UCLA. In 1959 Washington, Cal, UCLA, and USC started the AAWU, Stanford came along a few months later. Those five didn't want to have to travel to Idaho, Pullman, Eugene, or Corvallis, but over the next 3 years WSU, then the Oregon schools were admitted. Idaho never "reapplied".

Because the PAC 8 retained the PCC's and AAWU's records they look more cohesive outside the core 5 schools than they really are. I wouldn't say Oregon or OSU were left behind. Left behind is what happened to Virginia Tech in 1954 and to Houston, SMU, and TCU in 1996.