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Sep 27, 2021
12:05:25pm

MetaLearner Contributor

I hope so but I'm not so sure.

Both that government will ever cut spending and that these would be the first things to go. If a university or government agency did cut such programs, they'd get labeled racist/sexist/whatever which government employees and academics try to avoid at all costs. The culture needs to change a lot more before it would be viable. I think at best you'd get a percentage reduction that would be similar to or slightly higher than budget cuts across the board.

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This is what actually came from the Big 12 via AD from TTech…

9/27/21 1:38am

If USC UCLA Oregon and Washington all left

9/27/21 5:37am

Disagree.

DJROSS

9/27/21 5:55am

Not even close. It's the P12 woke culture that's killing their conference

Bo Dagget

9/27/21 6:14am

You can keep telling yourself that but it doesn’t make it true

9/27/21 6:53am

If you think it's academic prowess that gives Stan and Cal the upper hand

Bo Dagget

9/27/21 6:59am

I'm going with out of touch.... academic prowess means nothing vs. tv revenue

wilsdad

9/27/21 7:22am

There is a lot more than just that

9/27/21 8:21am

Well, you got me there

Bo Dagget

9/27/21 8:35am

It's true. When the BIG12 schools see all that money coming in from the EAPN

Jacksonian76

9/27/21 7:14am

The proof is in the pudding. The entire athletic participation in California

DJROSS

9/27/21 7:27am

Interesting thoughts (about education in general, not necessarily the athletic

kos

9/27/21 7:53am

Hiring based on ability? LOL!!! Hardly. They are hiring as much cheap foreign...

CougarThug

9/27/21 8:43am

I'm not talking baseline. I'm talking about where will define the future.

DJROSS

9/27/21 8:54am

I think what you say is largely true and will eventually happen.

MetaLearner

9/27/21 9:47am

You may be right. I have a tendency to be rather early in observing trends.

DJROSS

9/27/21 6:42pm

Have you watched P12 games recently? If you have, you are mostly alone. Academics don't sell tickets to football games,

zonacougar

9/27/21 11:16am

Just because they named themselves "the conference of champions" and repeat it.

hydrocoug

9/27/21 11:23am

I’m not a Pac-12 fan, but they are the conference of Olympic Sport champions. Especially if you count Olympic champions

Fallball

9/27/21 12:29pm

Total National Championships:

BYUDM93

9/27/21 2:00pm

How many in football, because that is what will drive conference affiliation?

hydrocoug

9/27/21 2:03pm

The last time the Pac12 had an outright National Championship in football was 1972.

9/27/21 2:11pm

But you were simply mocking them for calling themselves the "Conference of

kos

9/27/21 2:14pm

Thank you, and agreed in full

BYUDM93

9/27/21 2:25pm

In context of this thread, I mocked them for their claim.

hydrocoug

9/27/21 3:08pm

I could compile conference comparison stats if you'd like, but felt it

BYUDM93

9/27/21 3:43pm

Thanks for the doc. I can look through it.

hydrocoug

9/27/21 4:12pm

Great question, and leads to a major (discovered) DISCLAIMER:

BYUDM93

9/27/21 2:24pm

To actually answer your question, "How many in football?":

BYUDM93

9/27/21 3:11pm

Thanks for putting all these stats together.

hydrocoug

9/27/21 3:37pm

Except that USC's National Championships in the 2000's no longer count...

9/27/21 4:52pm

Go look up who the AP has listed as National Champs in 03 and 04

9/27/21 5:01pm

NCAA has 2004 *'d (vacated) on this part of their site. But not 2003.

BYUDM93

9/27/21 5:18pm

The NCAA doesn’t even award an FBS championship

9/27/21 5:48pm

yeah - seems like a desperate, pathetic attempt by the NCAA to insert itself -

BYUDM93

9/27/21 6:13pm

I wouldn’t be shocked to find out the page was made solely for that reason

9/27/21 6:21pm

Yeah. But I've never put much stock into 'vacation' of wins and championships.

BYUDM93

9/27/21 5:13pm

In water polo and chair stacking but not in football which is what is driving

VACOUGFAN

9/27/21 2:13pm

Seems to me it would be the other way around here!

9/27/21 7:45am

If those schools left, it would be because of a terrible TV contract. You think

SLIVER

9/27/21 8:24am

A terrible TV contract for the PAC would be better than what the Big 12 is going

9/27/21 10:25am

We'll see. Impossible to tell now, but there are a lot of people less confident

SLIVER

9/27/21 11:13am

Who would be pining for the good old days of Neuheisel at UCLA?

9/27/21 2:50pm

Wut?

BamaCoug

9/27/21 8:40am

Strike that. Reverse it.

HONOMO

9/27/21 8:46am

This must be trolling. It would be all about the money. And in that scenario

Cougar TD

9/27/21 9:12am

I highly doubt it. The schools people care about are in relatively small markets

9/27/21 10:26am

Hmmm . . . It sounds more likely to me that the 8 left overs from the PAC 1.2

Iron Coug

9/27/21 9:12am

The days of academics controlling conference affiliation are rapidly ending. It

DirtyWater

9/27/21 11:11am

Ouch

DJROSS

9/27/21 11:22am

You're right for anything not in the hard sciences or professional degrees

MetaLearner

9/27/21 11:35am

However those grants come from governments.

hydrocoug

9/27/21 11:44am

I hope so but I'm not so sure.

MetaLearner

9/27/21 12:05pm

I would support UA/ASU/Washington/WSU or even Colorado

davidsonlaw

9/27/21 9:00am

I think the most likely teams to go to the B1G if it happens are

9/27/21 9:20am

Basketball would be the reason to include Arizona

davidsonlaw

9/27/21 11:08am

If the Big Ten takes just 2 and the Big XII only takes 4, no chance Utah gets in

9/27/21 9:49am

If the B1G only takes two, it would probably not be enough to

9/27/21 9:52am

Would Pac stay at 10 then? Money would be greater in the Big XII and there's no

9/27/21 10:05am

Not sure money is greater in Big 12 if only USC and Oregon leave…

9/27/21 8:21pm

The PAC would then add SDSU, Boise, Nevada, UNLV, USU

davidsonlaw

9/27/21 11:10am

Please, Universe! Make this happen!

9/27/21 11:42am

Is 16 teams the 'magic' conference size? Or would the B1G consider more?

BYUDM93

9/27/21 9:01am

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