The sequence: USC>UCLA>Colorado>Arizona....the B1G did not reconnect with UW until they heard about Arizona meeting with Yormark. As soon as UW/UO announced, Arizona took the Big12 deal within minutes because the Apple deal was deficient by comparison to the Big12.
There was a USA Today story this week about Big12 giving Colorado $2.5M as incentive to jump. Would be interesting to know if they were offering Arizona at same time and told the two the first to accept gets it?
Tex/OU left. USC/UCLA left. Clemson/FSU wants to leave. When you can't hold on to your biggest brand schools bad crap happens. Colorado and Arizona made preemptive moves, then UW/UO reacted - especially UW. UO in a Pac7 would not have been a happy landing spot.
Colorado barely was Pac12 and were easily replaced. So no your list is wrong. Plus AZ might have left on its own, but ASU was required to come along and they were firm in the pac12 boat.
UO and UW both agreed to the Apple deal with a tentative handshake, then hours later jumped and didn't tell anyone. That is backstabbing to the highest degree. Even the UW president admitted this.
What is with UO fans doing everything they can to act like it they don't have blood on their hands. SC makes me upset, but at least their fans own up to the dirty deed
The sequence is accurate according to the Tucson newspaper several weeks ago. Their "insider" info was the UA athletic dept. There were serious discussions between UA and Yormark and a "tentative deal" until UA saw the Apple number. Unfortunately, you can't keep much secret in athletics and the Big Ten went after UW when those discussions leaked. As the UW president "admitted" the Big Ten money vs the most optimistic Apple deal didn't make it a hard decision.
Maybe, maybe not... That is speculative
What is NOT speculative is SC, UCLA, UO and UW caused this
The sequence: USC>UCLA>Colorado>Arizona....the B1G did not reconnect with UW until they heard about Arizona meeting with Yormark. As soon as UW/UO announced, Arizona took the Big12 deal within minutes because the Apple deal was deficient by comparison to the Big12.
There was a USA Today story this week about Big12 giving Colorado $2.5M as incentive to jump. Would be interesting to know if they were offering Arizona at same time and told the two the first to accept gets it?
Tex/OU left. USC/UCLA left. Clemson/FSU wants to leave. When you can't hold on to your biggest brand schools bad crap happens. Colorado and Arizona made preemptive moves, then UW/UO reacted - especially UW. UO in a Pac7 would not have been a happy landing spot.
Colorado barely was Pac12 and were easily replaced. So no your list is wrong. Plus AZ might have left on its own, but ASU was required to come along and they were firm in the pac12 boat.
UO and UW both agreed to the Apple deal with a tentative handshake, then hours later jumped and didn't tell anyone. That is backstabbing to the highest degree. Even the UW president admitted this.
What is with UO fans doing everything they can to act like it they don't have blood on their hands. SC makes me upset, but at least their fans own up to the dirty deed
The sequence is accurate according to the Tucson newspaper several weeks ago. Their "insider" info was the UA athletic dept. There were serious discussions between UA and Yormark and a "tentative deal" until UA saw the Apple number. Unfortunately, you can't keep much secret in athletics and the Big Ten went after UW when those discussions leaked. As the UW president "admitted" the Big Ten money vs the most optimistic Apple deal didn't make it a hard decision.