Conference Realignment

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Aug 27, 2021 2:35 pm

Can't imagine the ABOR will go for that since they are the ones that mandated that ASU and UA alternate playing NAU.

is playing eight conference games, one home game and one away game against the other two conferences.

Unless it's 1 game for each conference, making a total of 10 games, giving the UA one FCS and one mid-major.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:37 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:48 pm Does this mean no more FCS games?

This would still give the schools two games to do whatever they want.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:38 pm

azgreg wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:37 pm
UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:48 pm Does this mean no more FCS games?

This would still give the schools two games to do whatever they want.

I read it as home and away with each other conference. 8 league games, two with Big 10, two with ACC

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:40 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:38 pm
azgreg wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:37 pm
UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:48 pm Does this mean no more FCS games?

This would still give the schools two games to do whatever they want.

It says home and away with each conference. 8 league games, two with Big 10, two with ACC

One home game and one away game from teams in the other conferences. Two games.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:05 pm

As far as I know we're still mandated by the state to play NAU at least 1 in every 3 years.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:22 am

The TCU/Baylor... interviews to get into the PAC.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:07 am

That was pretty good.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:14 am

That was tremendously funny

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:21 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:55 pm

This is a good move for a soon-to-be third rate conference.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:54 am

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:58 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:46 pm

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 7:03 am

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:44 am

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:54 am

WTF is going on? Politics suck in this country and now college sports may implode too

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:59 am

Siempre Verde · Post by **Siempre Verde** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:02 am

I still think it appropriate to say fuck Larry Scott. If he’d have done his job, this wouldn’t be happening.

Edit, should the Arizona Schools now look towards the Big 12?

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:04 am

Could see UofA, asu, Utah & Colorado going to the Big 12.

UALoco · Post by **UALoco** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:16 am

Well...this sucks. Afraid AZ football will be left in the dust.

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:22 am

The Big-10 might get 14 teams into the NCAA tournament at this rate

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:22 am

Could very well be a powerplay for more money for the LA schools too

UALoco · Post by **UALoco** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:26 am

If this happens, I am done with college sports.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:26 am

That was my 1st thought bug. How do the schools divy up the money now?

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:35 am

I'm pissed, but not at all surprised. At least this would end the illusion that the Pac is a power conference. Hope Robbins/Heeke have some brains and are coming up with a plan to get us to the Big 12.

Hope we can still schedule UCLA in basketball every year. We need to keep that rivalry in tact.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:35 am

I hope UCLA enjoys their Wednesday night volleyball match at Rutgers.

PHXCATS · Post by **PHXCATS** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:42 am

MrBug708 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:22 am Could very well be a powerplay for more money for the LA schools too

I would have thought George would have agreed to that before it got to this point

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:43 am

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:47 am

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:47 am

So much for the solidarity between the PAC Schools and the B1G

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:48 am

Fuck, this blows

OSUCat · Post by **OSUCat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:53 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:35 am I hope UCLA enjoys their Wednesday night volleyball match at Rutgers.

USC playing at Penn at 7 am pacific Or OSU basketball starting at 10pm eastern sounds like a blast for the kids.

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:57 am

MrBug708 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:22 am Could very well be a powerplay for more money for the LA schools too

Could be that or it could simply be that the LA schools are going to get a hell of a lot more money being in the B1G than in the P12, no matter how the P12 divys up the money.

We'll know for sure very quickly.

Robbins needs to move quickly to get the UA into the Big12 if the LA schools bolt for the B1G.......I can't see any better option for the UA

RondaeShimmy · Post by **RondaeShimmy** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:58 am

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:35 am I hope UCLA enjoys their Wednesday night volleyball match at Rutgers.

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:06 pm

Let's look at the bright side. We won't have to put up with Bill Walton or his "Conference of Champions" talk for much longer.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:12 pm

YoDeFoe · Post by **YoDeFoe** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:15 pm

This sucks

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:15 pm

dmjcat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:57 am Robbins needs to move quickly to get the UA into the Big12 if the LA schools bolt for the B1G.......I can't see any better option for the UA

Can't imagine any P5 conference wanting a football team with 1 tainted win along with another school predicted to finish last in the PAC with a lame duck coach. Football is where the money is at.

They already have Kansas to be a doormat football program.

Along with the B12 losing both Texas and Oklahoma. They will already have 14 teams too with the replacement schools.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:16 pm

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:17 pm

If the LA schools bolt the dominoes will begin to fall.

Either the P12 is going to raid the B12 in order to survive.......or the B12 is going to raid the P12.

Will be interesting to see who moves first.

YoDeFoe · Post by **YoDeFoe** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:18 pm

I grew up in Ann Arbor and Atlanta, rooting for Michigan and Georgia. Went to games at the Big House and between the hedges. Was in attendance for the largest football crowd in American history, at the time.

Then I decided to go to Arizona in '03 and college football has been the ruiner of my sports fandom ever since. Fuck this sport.

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:20 pm

Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:15 pm
dmjcat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:57 am Robbins needs to move quickly to get the UA into the Big12 if the LA schools bolt for the B1G.......I can't see any better option for the UA
Can't imagine any P5 conference wanting a football team with 1 tainted win along with another school predicted to finish last in the PAC with a lame duck coach. Football is where the money is at.

They already have Kansas to be a doormat football program.

Along with the B12 losing both Texas and Oklahoma. They will already have 14 teams too with the replacement schools.

I can't argue with your logic. I believe that the UA needs to be proactive and look after its own interests. The P12 is not going to do that.

My nightmare Melt-Down scenario is the B12 taking Oregon/Washington/Utah/ASU and leaving us out in the cold to join a conference of leftovers (P12 + MWC)

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:20 pm

Happening very quickly too.

I can see this, Oregon is much more desirable of a program than either AZ school.

Beachcat97 · Post by **Beachcat97** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:31 pm

Pac was already flirting with being a mid-major. This makes it all but official.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:47 pm

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:51 pm

What the fuck just happened?

My daughter is going to Michigan so I guess my rooting against the LA schools will continue.

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:52 pm

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:55 pm

Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:20 pm Happening very quickly too.

The other thing about this is that all indications are the Pac-12 was completely blindsided by this. I was speaking to George Kliavkoff, their commissioner, throughout this week because July 1 is his one-year anniversary, and he's in Montana on vacation. He was trying to be off the grid this week. So there was no indication that he saw any of this coming in multiple conversations that I had with him."

BBQ wildcat · Post by **BBQ wildcat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:57 pm

I could totally be wrong, but wouldn't ABOR have to approve UA and/or ASsU jumping to another conference? Or would each school be able to do that independently?

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:57 pm

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