(02-27-2020 01:30 AM)jedclampett Wrote: (02-26-2020 06:46 PM)GoOwls111 Wrote: (02-26-2020 03:57 PM)HoustonRocks Wrote: https://247sports.com/college/usc/Articl...144248076/
USC fans are not happy with PAC-12
I stand by my prediction that the Big XII will poach the Pac-12 for the Arizona Twins or Utah & Colorado if not all 4.
They might poach some conference, but I doubt it would be the PAC, or any P5 conference, for that matter.
1) The Big-12 has little to offer schools in the other P5 conferences that they don't already have. They couldn't offer much larger payments, and even if they could, the $ would be offset by increased travel costs, with the exception of Colorado.
2) The non Big-12 P5 schools have many institutional ties in their conferences and a shared cultural identity. Culturally, the Big-12 has a rough and tough FB reputation and a red state swag. The PAC schools, except Utah, are in bluer and purple states, and they may have more in common culturally with the B1G and east coast.
--Culturally, the Big-12 has the most in common with the SEC, but the trend has been to lose schools to the SEC (and B1G and PAC), rather than the other way 'round.
3) In Colorado's case, they decided years ago that they'd had enough with the Big-12. It's hard to think of any reason for them to reverse that decision.
4) The reason why the Big 12 only has 10 schools is that Nebraska, A&M, Mizzou, & Colorado all sought greener pastures elsewhere. They were fortunate to get WVU as a result of the Big East's impending dissolution and to get a massively improved TCU from their back yard.
5) Q: Why did the Big-12 lose 4 prestigious universities?
A: Texas is apparently not an ideal partner.
Texas has had the reputation of a "conference destroyer," after causing the SWC to implode and a bit of a domineering bully within the conference, due to their huge broadcasting network and market share. UT hasn't hesitated to throw their weight around, and the other Big-12 schools don't like it. UT has de facto veto power over any decision, such as adding potential members and broadcasting agreements.
It has been said that, of all the B-12 schools, UT is the most reluctant to approve expansion beyond 10 members, because they would stand to lose the most income if the pie were to be split 11 or 12, rather than 10 ways.
Under those circumstances, any school other than a G5 or independent would probably have major reservations about moving to the Big-12.
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UT's reputation as somewhat of a swaggering bull(y) may also make it difficult for them to switch conferences.
at some point reality sets in
1. the PAC 12 has the lowest TV revenues by far and that does not look to be changing
2. the PAC 12 has the most programs with the highest academic side subsidies and those are very large subsidies and the next is the ACC
3. the PAC 12 has the most programs running annual deficits AFTER those annual academic side subsidies are included
4. the PAC 12 has the most programs with the highest amount of athletics debt and the highest annual debt service for athletics
5. even with those academic side subsidies the PAC 12 has the most programs with the lowest revenues in the P5
6. at some point "institutional ties" really mean nothing if you are tied to a bunch of programs with high subsidies, low revenues, annual debt, high overall debt, and high debt service (which means less of the revenues are going to the actual programs).....and it means even less when you are making a lot less in TV revenues for having all of those ties
7. no one cares what Colorado thinks including many people in Colorado.....if Colorado cared they would not be listening to their former AD that lived in Boulder from the age of 1 year old until he graduated high school and that became the AD of a P5 program in the city where he grew up for all of his young life and then LEFT to go to a G5 school......now at USC talking about everything is on the table as far as conference affiliation and TV dollars for USC.....he left Colorado because he realized that Colorado does not care about athletics they left the Big 12 so they could go to the PAC 12 and skate by and talk about academics.......while ignoring that universities in Colorado are under financial pressure on the academic side as well
8. NU, aggy, and Missouri were all in favor of unequal revenue sharing and there is a good chance Colorado was as well......attempting to blame that on Texas is just nonsense and has been disproved time and again including from the mouth of the chancellor of NU and from the lawsuits where aggy threatened to sue the Big 12 for uneven revenues while saying they were staying....and then left
in addition it is well known that NU and OU were 100% against a conference network as was aggy......any of them with a change of vote probably could have pushed through a conference network for the Big 12, but none did
no matter what people on the www and forums like this think those that actually make the decisions know how programs voted on the various issues with the Big 12....along with that apart from more money how are NU, CU and MU doing in their new conferences?......and even aggy is just a hanger on er and a laughing stock to the members of the SEC SEC SEC.....but hey no more Daddy Texas now Daddy Alabama, LSU, Auburn and probably a couple of others most years
Texas has a reputation of a "conference destroyer" with fans of programs that got in a conference and then allowed their facilities, programs, fan support, and administrations decline to garbage and apathy because they expected Texas to hold their hand and carry the weight for them
9. why would Texas or any member of the Big 12 expand with new members so that all the members of the Big 12 could take less revenues....that makes no sense at all
that is nonsense put forth by people that think some magic number of members in a conference makes it more stable....or people that think stupid thoughts like "add more members which helps to lower revenues so you can still be around as a conference when the top programs leave"
by that logic the PAC 12 should be calling SDSU, Fresno, CSU, and BYU now to prepare in case USC and UCLA leave.....never mind the massive hit to payouts for everyone in the conference that would further drive top members out
just nonsense
10. none of the above means that USC or any other program will leave the PAC 12 for any other conference including the Big 12, but it is ridiculous to think that a conference with the most teams doing the least well financially is somehow stable or that their top programs moving to another conference might benefit them financially........which makes much more sense than a conference that has much more financial stability and higher TV revenues losing top members (that actually earn more) to another conference that clearly struggles the most financially with the highest number of members doing so
PS travel cost are not a product of distance in many cases they are a product of available services in the cities being traveled to and from
again none of the above means that any program leaves the PAC 12 for the Big 12 or any other conference, but in terms of finances and program financial stability from top to bottom the Big 12 is in far better shape than the PAC 12 and in better shape than the ACC as well
the Big 12 has most of their teams with extremely low debt, making money or breaking even season after season, most of them have competitive facilities in terms of size and age and the ones expanding or renovating are doing so mostly with cash and little debt, and they have very low academic side subsidies including student fees...even though some are at the lower end of overall revenues they still are able to break even or show a slight profit and the lower debt and debt service means more money goes to the programs....and they are doing that with less off the backs of students
all of those financial issues will be much more relevant to programs looking at options vs the www reputation of "Texas" or long term ties (to programs with large financial issues)