(07-26-2022 02:26 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(07-24-2022 12:40 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  Who here honestly thinks Stanford will vote to become a peer institution with Boise and SDSU or any other MWC school? They’d go independent first.

There's a road for that, but there's not enough time to build it.

The problem is there aren't enough top-level universities in the West. Period. That has nothing to do with football. The lower population levels and distances have dwarfed the development of the universities in the West.

The way to pair schools like Stanford and Boise State is to actually pair them at the institutional level with Stanford mentoring the academic development of Boise State as an institution. It would require coordination at the state government level and a financial commitment Idaho may not be able to make. But it could be made to work, and the educational system of the western U.S. needs to mature. It is 150 years behind.

There are already a cooperation between Boise State and University of Washington for the medical education.

Odds of some kind of TV deal between the Pac-12 and the ACC?
Pretty good … perhaps better than 50/50. ESPN could create a media partnership based on each league’s Tier 3 infrastructure, combining the ACC Network with the Pac-12 Network to create more subscribers, and revenue. For all their problems with distribution, the Pac-12 Networks are on the cutting edge with their remote broadcast technology.

What is going on with the Pac-12 negotiating window? Wasn’t Thursday the last day?

It was, if the process actually began the day after the Pac-12 announced it would commence formal contract negotiations. But as we noted on Thursday, the exclusive window for ESPN and Fox likely has been extended to account for the ongoing Big Ten negotiations. The Pac-12 would want to know which networks have grabbed a piece of the Big Ten’s media rights, while ESPN and Fox would want to know exactly what they’re spending on the Big Ten.

Best guess:

The exclusive window extends into September, no deal is reached, the Pac-12 takes its inventory to the open market and resolution comes in September or October.

Link
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/05/h...-and-more/

(07-26-2022 02:26 PM)Claw Wrote:  The problem is there aren't enough top-level universities in the West. Period. That has nothing to do with football.

Comma. It still has everything to do with football.

Caltech would look great in the PAC... if only it needed the conference.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/ran...top-public