(09-20-2022 02:33 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(09-20-2022 02:30 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  

(09-20-2022 02:19 PM)Poster Wrote:  

(09-20-2022 02:15 PM)solohawks Wrote:  So it sounds like the PAC will sign a short term GOR to get them through the next decade or in alignment with the ACC.

Take SDSU and maybe SMU like everyone's suggesting

I will be stunned if the PAC signs another Grant of Rights. In fact, I'll be stunned if any conference signs another Grant of Rights again. Those always have to be unaimous, and there will always be some teams in a conference who think they might leave. Those were only signed because some people got fooled into thinking realignment was over after the early 2010s.


I also haven't seen any evidence that SDSU and SMU add value to the PAC. (And I'm not even going to get started on the C-USA teams some people were suggesting in a thread today.) If the Big 10 is done expanding, I think the PAC will stay at 10.

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This.

Yall don't think they will at least add SDSU to get to 11 and keep somewhat of a presence in SoCal?

Not if adding SDSU is dilutive. I have a hard time seeing ESPN paying $25 million per year more — or even $12 million per year more — for a program that’s currently earning $4 million per year from CBS and Fox.

Now if the Pac-12 loses another member or two that changes the calculation. Given the NCAA requirement to have eight full FBS members to remain an FBS conference, as well as the need for a minimum eight-game conference football schedule, there’s no way the Pac-12 allows its membership to slip below nine.