(10-09-2021 06:28 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(10-08-2021 11:06 PM)WAChsenburggemeinde Wrote:  

(10-08-2021 10:32 PM)BigEastMike Wrote:  

(10-08-2021 08:53 PM)clpp01 Wrote:  

(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?

USC's problem with independence isn't putting together a football schedule it would be their unwillingness to sacrifice their olympic sports to make a go at it. They leave in football they would have to take everything with them and having to put their olympic programs in the Big West or WCC is a complete non starter for them.

Exactly, the Irish have a great option with the ACC and the Big East before that. USC doesn't have a high level conference to park its non revenue sports in.

They would do fine as an independent. Probably make a little more money on the football side, but it might hurt their Olympic sports.

I think for Olympic sports they would swing a deal with the MWC over the WCC. The 2 G5 opponents would be MWC teams as part of that deal. But they'd probably just be USC home games or neutral site games rather than home-and-homes.

Why do you assume their football team would make more money as an independent? Notre Dame doesn't, and their following is more national than the Trojans'.

There are five valuable brands on the west coast, and if they were to move to the B1G as a group (along with Cal) they could make more than they do now in the PAC. But none of those five would make more as an independent IMO.

ND is 6th in the country in revenue.

Its just TV revenue that is less for ND as an independent

(The NBC deal is up in 2025, lets see how much the new contract is)

There are other routes to make money (tickets, apparel, donations, etc...)