(10-08-2021 07:27 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Let’s pretend for a moment that the PAC 12’s crown jewel was dissatisfied to the point of taking their football independent and moving the rest of their sports to the WCC.

What might that look like?

Annual Opponents:
ND
UCLA
Cal
Stanford
Washington
Oregon
2 G5s
4 Big Ten/SEC/ACC

thoughts?

You are kidding? USC should be dissatisfied with themselves. They are an embarrassment. They got crushed at home by Stanford and Oregon State. In your hypothetical scenario, they would be on their own. The other Pac-12 schools would not do them any favors by scheduling them. Recruiting would get nasty, because schools in the Pac-12 would point out that they will never play in the Rose Bowl, they left because they can't compete in the Pac-12, that they have downgraded their Olympic sports schedule to games against LMU, Pepperdine, San Diego.

Going independent would be a revenue loser, both in football and basketball. The alumni would not be happy at all. They are not happy as it is. With all of their football history and all of the football talent in Southern California, they should be the crown jewell. But they are not.