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Brian M's avatar

I don't think people from Portland south to Corvallis have thought through how damaging this will be to the state of Oregon. I would not want to be a business owner in Corvallis who depends on the big weekends from football, baseball and basketball games. They are goners. Corvallis will likely loise residents and shrink in size as businesses related to the campus fail and even students take Corvallis off their list of places to attend. But even as far as Portland, this implosion of the PAC12 will cast a giant shadow. There will be no more intrastate rivalry between the Ducks and Beavers, or the Huskies and Cougars, any more than there is between the Ducks and Willamette University, Western Oregon in Monmouth or Portland State. Without the power of the rivalry, the Ducks will get hit, too. This is NOT a win for the Ducks. It is a disaster for west coast college sports hollowing out west coast sports and all the tag along benefits of 12 rivalries up and down the coast. So Ducks can stop grinning now.

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Ernie Loy's avatar

I love the Ducks and have been a DAF member for over twenty years. I've never felt so disappointed in Oregon as I do today. Part of the greatness of college ball are the rivalries. I loved to hate UW, OSU, USC, WSU, and Stanford. I was learning to love to hate Utah. I also always rooted for all of them when they were playing against a non-conference opponent, or in the case of Oregon State, every game they played other than against Oregon. So sad to see all that history go up in smoke.

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