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Donnie Roberts's avatar

should happen asap. wish the Ducks could join the big boys before it is too late. the pac-12 is a weak conference and unless they get ESPN to give them large tv deal, they are doomed. for a long time. .

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Mike's avatar

I think this is a plus for both the Pac-12 and Oregon. Knowing that the conference will have a participant every year and that the championship game will be a play-in for the CFP might make the TV rights more valuable.

As for Oregon, it would seem the path for them to get in regularly is to stay in the Pac-12, rather than try to win an 18+ team conference against the likes of OSU and Michigan, or hope for 1 of 6 at-large bids where you are also measured against SEC teams.

Whether or not that would be enough for UO to turn down a Big Ten invite, especially if the money is a lot better, I don't know. But if they stay in the Pac, they're in a good spot with this format.

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Donnie Roberts's avatar

Mr. Hard Count: The Pac-10 or pac-8 will not be in the final four, or even final 16, in football Americano in this decade. If there is no guaranteed spot if you win your league, like in college hoops, they are beyond doomed. Called money, and they soon will have less than they do now. Only real college football is found in the Big-10, SEC, and the ACC. If all the pac-10 schools banded their nickels and dimes together, in 5.834 years they could form one good team. Not sure which league would take them.

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if ESPN does not step in with MILLIONS of real American dollars very soon, kiss the Pac-10 good by. One rocket scientist on here, says the solution is to invite Miami amd Florida State to take huge many million dollar pay cuts, and join the Pac-10! Really, Fact check me. I will not use his name; that is up to Mr. Canzano. I think he knows the author. Maybe Alabama would like to forfeit $100 million dollars upfront, in real American dollars, to join the conference of champions. If they do, then they can be a real football team, and make the final four once every 47 years instead of every year. If I ever hear Bill Walton call the pac-10 the conference of champions ever again, I will throw my glass of water at the tv, really. Over the years, I have donated just two tvs via this method. Maybe he did not mean football or basketball. Might have been competiitve cheer that the OSU Beavers are hoping to have within 8.935 years. Ducks have one now some Duck friend told me years ago. Do not mean any disrespect at all as I have been a die-hard Duck fan for about 60 years. My point is that football and basketball bring in millions each per year, and support all the other sports. Maybe if not Alabama, the pac-10 can try Georgia or Ohio State. Yeh, right, and on Sept. 1st , 2022, I saw a lady in a brand new white fiat mini-car on Highway 8 in Beaverton, Or. Her passengers included six football players from Portland State, and each one had a St. Bernard, full grown, on a short leash. I tried to pull out my cell to take a picture while driivng, but, in my haste, I could not find it as usually I leave it at home. My home phone, through comcast, is only 30 dollars a month with free long distance. It does not cut out like an 800 dollar smart phone. It has free voice mail, and even though in 1987 I thought I was a rock star because I had a huge Motorola cell, and nobody else had one! I am proud now, that none of my life is dependant on a cell, and I rarely use it. My car always has a full tank of gas and my cell is always fully charged. Would say fact check me on the fiat, but I have no picture of it. The only two times I saw Bigfoot, near Mt. Hood, I did not even have a cell or a camera. Maybe the pac-10 can join the Big Sky, and become the next big, super football league. Twenty powerhouse major football teams, all located very close to each other. My one man missles sometimes work. If you have a power generator, and comcast is showing football, can you get the game? How about a satellite dish? I could have an easier time communicating with my alien bros on planet XX, who do like football. A former football coach taught me how to first contactl them in 1990. Pretty cool dudes, and I showed them how to watch football Americano. As soon as they could figure out which team was on offense, they caught on fast. I know women from 20 to 90 who do not like football, as they do not understand what a football is made of. Just saw it will only be 110 degrees F in Fresno, Ca. on Saturday. No wind, and bad air quality. Perfect weather for a Beaver football team to lose a close one, only losing by 21. Jeff Tedford loves to beat any pac-12 team, especially one from Oregon. GO DUCKS

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