I can scarcely believe this...in football they becoming a good team under Fisch, but their only other Big-10 championship was in rowing...

In other tidbits...we are SO LUCKY to have him back!

What’s funny is this is the vision that the most delusional Beavis fan clings to. A handful of teams will come crawling back and they hold all the cards.

I promise you Beavis, if it ever happens that UW/Cal/Stanford/etc. ever decide they want a change of scenery, you will absolutely not be calling the shots.

To be fair, why, I have no idea, UW did capture the Men's NCAA soccer title.

That and $5 at Starbucks will buy you a Venti latte. 😁

1 hour ago, JabbaNoBargain said:

What’s funny is this is the vision that the most delusional Beavis fan clings to. A handful of teams will come crawling back and they hold all the cards.

I promise you Beavis, if it ever happens that UW/Cal/Stanford/etc. ever decide they want a change of scenery, you will absolutely not be calling the shots.

The first thing I thought was "Beaver troll."

If you go there and read the thread, the OP made message board geniuses....

8 hours ago, Charles Fischer said:

I can scarcely believe this...in football they becoming a good team under Fisch, but their only other Big-10 championship was in rowing...

One word.... Defeated

It's a bit bold to assume they could win 60 - 70% of their games...even in the Pac Ain't!

And yes, a relevant athletic department is necessary to keep enrollment up, even at the mighty Udub. Student enrollment is down pretty much everywhere and the trend is continuing.

However, the dream of Sat afternoon kickoffs, more regional rivalries and greater affordability is a nice one, albeit a naive one.

I'll stick with the Ducks system: great coaches recruiting talented character players, getting them NIL deals, playing in the best conference and kicking everyone else's collective butts!

All sports require $$$$. Without football, and men's basketball to a smaller degree. You'll lose the money needed to keep all those scholarship sports. It's not hating on the other sports, but it's just basic economics. It's what WNBA players fail to realize when they think they are being cheated in pay, when in reality the NBA helps keep the WNBA afloat.

There's no such thing as a free lunch kiddos. Sometime, someplace, someone is working to put together the ingredients for your sandwich.

I miss the old conferences as well. But the Big East, and Pac 12 are gone as we know it. The Big East is now a great basketball league with small private schools, but with rich histories. The Pac 12 is a bunch of Mountain West, WAC, and the two programs from the old Pac 12 that nobody wanted. Memphis was willing to pay a hundred million dollars, and forgo any revenue shares to get into the Big 12. This was after the Pac 12 had tried to get Memphis, UNLV, and USF to join.

So don't give me the whole Pac 12 is staying true to it's geographical footprint. Memphis and USF elected to stay in the American. If they hadn't, you'd have all these lower revenue earning schools in the west, having to travel to Memphis and Tampa. Is it any wonder that Memphis would rather pay through the nose to get into the lowest P4 conference, than join whatever the Pac 12 is?

Anybody foolish enough to believe a member of the most powerful league would leave for a league that Memphis and USF turned down,should probably stop staring at the sun all day.

7 hours ago, GatOrlando said:

Is it any wonder that Memphis would rather pay through the nose to get into the lowest P4 conference, than join whatever the Pac 12 is?