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Nov 14, 2021
10:15:53pm

dchandle15 All-American

The focus on academics makes it tough as football/bball grow more competitive

They’re trying to be a league full of research institutions and higher learning, while at the same time trying to field competitive football teams in a sport that’s quickly becoming a developmental league for the NFL. It’s going to become more and more difficult to be both as college football demands more time, revenue, and focus than before. Trying to compete with the Ivy League in academics and the SEC in athletics is a difficult proposition. I believe this is a major contributor to why the league has been tending downward for some years now.

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Anyone else feel like the Pac 12 is kinda slowly dying? I mean I don’t know

brazilcoug

11/14/21 9:48pm

Yes. It’s plainly obvious. It’s a dying league.

11/14/21 9:50pm

Conference.

Tsisquan

11/15/21 8:50am

Conference of HasBeens

JupiterJones

11/15/21 9:52am

Yes, you are right, left coast politics & changing demographics are slowly (and

WIGGIN

11/14/21 9:50pm

Agree, the civilization is quickly changing, and to a degree down in Austin Texa

11/14/21 10:37pm

Cycles. A short time ago the b12 was gonna disband.

11/14/21 9:50pm

Yeah, but the slow decline of the P12 will continue. SEC and actually the new

WIGGIN

11/14/21 9:52pm

I don’t think the two are comparable

Spocougar

11/14/21 9:53pm

Texas caused the instability in the Big12

BYU-Laie

11/15/21 1:36am

Yep actually shocked how fas it has dropped. Stanford went from a respectable

johnnybyu

11/14/21 9:51pm

True, but hasn't Stanford HISTORICALLY been a pile of 💩💩💩?

TrueBlue67

11/15/21 5:17am

Woke politics will continue to strangle that league into irrelevance.

Bo Dagget

11/14/21 9:53pm

Beautifully ironic that the culture that has kept us out is what will kill it.

gwalker

11/14/21 9:55pm

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11/15/21 8:16am

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11/15/21 8:16am

Utah might end up as one of the strongest P12 programs...just by the fact that

WIGGIN

11/14/21 9:56pm

What would be ironic/comical is if the PAC10.2's demise drives the AZ schools

TrueBlue67

11/15/21 5:19am

I think this is confirmation bias from people who care too much about politics.

Memmo

11/14/21 9:58pm

The attendance problems are much worse than they have ever been. They are

johnnybyu

11/14/21 10:08pm

This might be true. Attendance is down across all sports on the West coast.

Memmo

11/14/21 10:29pm

Football runs things. And football is a South thing.

11/14/21 10:31pm

Apparently you do not understand the history of the Rose Bowl and Route 66 😃

11/14/21 10:42pm

Yeah I’m just saying that all sports attendance, pro and college is way off

Memmo

11/14/21 11:08pm

Sports fans usually are conservative republicans

BradioHead

11/15/21 10:45am

This is probably true to an extent

Memmo

11/15/21 11:55am

I’m very much enjoying it. Down with them.

11/14/21 9:59pm

Unfortunately no. People still love sports more than they should and once the ebb becomes a flow they'll be fine.

shimmy

11/14/21 10:00pm

But how many of the current students at P12 institutions will continue to identify with their school through sports?

kccougar

11/14/21 10:03pm

not significantly less than the past in my opinion.

shimmy

11/14/21 10:10pm

Not sure pac 12 has never had attendance issues like this. The pac 12 network

johnnybyu

11/14/21 10:09pm

Definitely need a new TV deal. I'd love the PAC 12 to die. I hope it does. I'm not optimistic about it happening.

shimmy

11/14/21 10:11pm

How will a new TV deal help? Will there suddenly be a big step up in interest in watching PAC12 football games (that

dilbert

11/14/21 10:34pm

Being on more TVs is a good thing. Maybe I'm wrong and the PAC 12 is now the MWC 2.0 and going to die any day.

shimmy

11/14/21 11:00pm

Best option is for Utah to go back to the Mountain West

Mike Bolton

11/14/21 10:01pm

That is so rich after listening to Yewt fans for the past 10 years telling BYU..

BYU Grounds

11/15/21 10:08am

Oregon/USC etc jumping ship for the Big 10 would be bad for Utah, but also for college football and for BYU

krindorr

11/15/21 10:29am

I think it’s going that way, however the PAC 12

11/14/21 10:02pm

If Bill Walton has his way...

crack

11/14/21 10:16pm

Woke 12 overall is just not that interested in football. They'll always sponsor

Schrodizzy

11/14/21 10:53pm

Conference of woke-inships.

Samsonite

11/14/21 10:02pm

#ConferenceOfFormerChampions

BlooCoog

11/14/21 10:05pm

I wonder how Oregon will do after Phil Knight dies. Right now they depend on

crack

11/14/21 10:13pm

Uncle Phil has given $1.5 Billion so far to the Univ of Oregon, and....

quackaddict

11/14/21 11:04pm

When Uncle Phil dies, he will leave the last of his money as an endowment to the

BYU Grounds

11/15/21 10:10am

The focus on academics makes it tough as football/bball grow more competitive

dchandle15

11/14/21 10:15pm

Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see this correlation at all. Not to mention, doesn’t the Big 10 and ACC also

Zach Morris

11/14/21 10:43pm

There is more of an emphasis on academics in the PAC-12 for sure

CougarGregor

11/14/21 11:46pm

Big 10 and PAC12 are the strongest academic conferences; ACC maybe slightly behind

krindorr

11/15/21 6:07am

Yes. Been saying it for years.

(Private)

11/14/21 10:21pm

Kinda seems like it but hard to say

TNT

11/14/21 10:25pm

Started by losing in expansion and has accelerated overtime due to political

BYUFam1

11/14/21 10:44pm

Laughable the Texas and OU ever considered the pac 12. Pac 12 not even on their

johnnybyu

11/14/21 11:19pm

Not sure they ever considered PAC 12. They were approached by Scott but highly

Soy Celeste

11/15/21 3:26am

They’ll be fine - everything is cyclical.

truecougster

11/14/21 11:10pm

Yes. In football. In everything else they will be good.

idacoug

11/14/21 11:36pm

The pac-12 has terrible football coaching

CougarGregor

11/14/21 11:44pm

In a part of the country that denies and decries masculinity

Punk Philosopher

11/15/21 12:38am

BYU fan confirmation bias. Oregon is #3 in FB and UCLA is #2 in bball.

TFL

11/15/21 1:04am

Unfortunately there’s more than one or two teams in a conference

Punk Philosopher

11/15/21 1:46am

That’s the whole point. Look at the history

TFL

11/15/21 1:57am

Metrics show BYU fan perception is closer to reality

Little Mac

11/15/21 2:40am

See my post above...I have lived in P12 country my whole life (minus my mission

Punk Philosopher

11/15/21 12:07pm

Greatly exaggerated. Recency bias. They will be fine. The west is desirable.

grosven

11/15/21 5:27am

While the Pac is weaker than normal, let's not pretend that it is dying.

Hotlanta

11/15/21 7:17am

Like a struggling business with decreasing market share, revenues and value...

Katewot

11/15/21 7:35am

It is exactly what it is. And they think they are going to get a B10 kind of

Nat Gas Man

11/15/21 7:56am

Anything "Woke" goes to Crap.

Zoobieman

11/15/21 7:54am

Given that you learned the word woke in the last few years and are using Cal’s

Memmo

11/15/21 8:24am

You mean to tell me there isn't a direct link between wokeness and winning NCs?

Hotlanta

11/15/21 8:33am

Cal Berkeley has been woke for 4 decades.

Zoobieman

11/15/21 8:42am

I don't think so, but they do have an attendance/enthusiasm issue that will

thewaterboy

11/15/21 10:07am

slowly??

Hill4Heisman

11/15/21 10:20am

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