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I can't do this every day but I try and look back at comments from the replay of 365 Sports and they are always appreciated and so I just wanted to thank everyone who takes the time to watch us and also comment even if on occasion we disagree or there are some edgy comments...we can all agree to disagree and it's something that's become very rare in today's society. Thank you. Smoaky (the old man in the middle)

People are cutting cable. It’s about subscriptions now. Rutgers for example is in a big TV market … but only about 12 people would pay to watch them on the internet.

If you want to bring eyeballs, invite the service academies... just a thought.

The largest alumni bases from the remaining pac schools. 1. ASU 2. Washington 3. Arizona 4. Cal ...followed by CU, Utah.

Why would there be a super conference number of teams? Whatever makes the most money. Maybe that's 18 each or 20 for one and 16 for the other. Maybe there is a reason to make them even (2 college conferences mini-nfl) although that isn't here thus far.

If the Big 10 wanted UW and Oregon, they would have been invited with UCLA and SC.

It's all about TV market. ASU-Phoenix, Sranford-SF, Denver-CU, Seatle-UW

The Big 12 is solid as is. To hear they're comparable to a Pac 12 with USC and UCLA tells me they're underrated.

Piggybacking on a point you started to discuss about G5 and left behind P5 schools losing buy game money that they support their entire athletics programs with, if these superconferences only play league games all season.... You guys didn't take the next step: that opens the door for a Title IX challenge to all of this realignment, if it causes some schools to start shutting down non revenue sports. Just something to keep an eye on. I guarantee it's been discussed.

I’m not sure the Big 10 schools would want to share the money with Washington and Oregon. The additional market these schools bring isn’t worth the shared revenue.

Hold on big 12 better.. Seem to remember Oregon and Washington playing for national championship.. Not so much Baylor.. OSU.. Your claim to fame is cinny..

I would be cautious about adding a bunch of Pac 12 teams. Why? Because nobody east of the Mississippi cares. All you get is a bunch of small viewership teams. Arizona is a desert with a dwindling supply of water, Big 12 and Colorado already divorced and re-marriages don't work, Utah will be looking for a better offer and jump ship as soon as they get it, Cal and Stanford are a terrible fit culturally, Oregon and Washington...see Utah, Oregon St and Washington St are too far to go for too little return. Invite merger with ACC except Syracuse, BC, Wake Forest and Duke(almost nobody goes to the game, nobody watches the games and finally, this train is fueled by football, not basketball). ACC grant of rights doesn't exist if the conference dissolves. Ten teams is a lot to absorb but the B12 won't get all of them. Once the conference dissolves, FSU and Clemson are headed to the SEC. Possibly Va Tech and North Carolina as well. I think there would be quite a bit of pushback against Miami from UF and FSU.

It's like mid 9 figures, not $100 million, to break the ACC GoR. At least without testing it in court. I don't know how well it would hold up in court BUT... I don't know how much appetite there is for major conferences to test the concept of such grants in court, or to encourage testing them. Notre Dame's exit is over $100 and it's a lot cheaper than getting out of full membership.

Is the ACC interested in Washington, Oregon, Utah and Stanford?????

Why don't you add Toronto university 93 thousand students and a big TV market

With CA and their growing 42 plus million, a top 5 economy in the world, #2 media market, NBA. NFL, NHL champs, best stadium in the world and the east coast...in 10 yrs. the B!G will come out on top. SEC will have had retired Saban and then there's nothing. No team will make that up for the SEC, who are amazing now but time is an enemy.

What does the big 12 have? Sorry don't see much and you added teams that are questionable to being a power..

UCF carries the Orlando Daytona market not Tampa.

The Pac-12 is suffering from total ineptness at the administrative level. They just hired a second dim-wit commissioner and has some of the worst ADs in FBS (Jen Cohen at UW is utterly incompetent). There's no way the Big-12 should be driving the bus vs the Pac-12, even after USC and UCLA left. It still has three of the top four academic schools in FBS (Stan, Cal, UW) along with the Bay Area market, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix and Denver). The Big-12 has Kansas City, OKC/Tulsa and that's it. TCU does not move the meter in Dallas (where I live) it's all Texas and Texas A&M. The second the Big Ten announced they were waiting on ND, UW and Oregon should have flipped the finger to the Big Ten and immediately offered everyone in the Big-12 other than than West Virginia, TCU, Baylor, BYU, Cinn and UCF and become the Pac-16 (TCU, BYU and Baylor would be blocked by Stanford and Cal due to lack of research and non Jesuit religious affiliation). OKS, Hous, T Tech, Kan, Kan State and Iowa State would bolt for the Pac in a snap.

if recruits dont know even where pennslvania is then thye shouldnt even be in college

Dick Fain is so west coast it’s not even funny…

Great discussion. Thanks for helping to entertain this UGA Alum during the off season

The Big 12 needs all members, new or current, to sign new conf membership agreements valued over a billion $$$.

Its not just "TV markets" at stake... its recruiting hotbeds

2 super conferences don't make as much sense to me. 4 power conferences left make better sense.

Would Baylor and Oklahoma State go to the SEC?

Great show today guys. 🎬🎥 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Interesting to see what the MWC will do. Oregon, Washington, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona St. are ABSOLUTELY leaving!!! Will the remaining teams fold into the MW or will the PAC 12 take the MW teams?

What is happening right now is the beginning of the university transfer portal. Yes, it is becoming a norm due to the advent of the athlete transfer portal. Yet, I also wonder if there will be a conference transfer portal based on a merger/acquisition of the PAC and even the prospect of the ACC merging with a conference. The challenge will be in the positioning of a top three conference positioning themselves from the onset. It is still possible for the Big 12 to become number one due to the university transfer portal that is just picking up steam now.

For Clemson to leave the ACC, it would cost them north of $300 million. It would cost ND $110 million.

Latest rumor: Oregon and Phil Knight are lobbying to get into Big Ten. The Big 12 would be the backup plan B for Oregon. If Oregon somehow pulls off the miracle and gets into the Big Ten then Arizona, Utah and Colorado would definitely bolt and go to the Big12.

ALL Momentum favors the B12!

An ACC merger with the Pac 12 might be the superconference they need. I do think the ACC loses 4 schools, but the 10 leftover with the 10 from the Pac 12 could be a 20 school league. They could do divisions or pods. Yes, this is the one thing I'd be worried about if I'm the Big 12. Now the ACC has a huge grant of rights. Could the Big 12 invite the 8 (or whatever number is needed to excuse the ACC buyout) to join-including Clemson and FSU. They could tell them if you play in the Big12 for 2 years, your buyout will only be 30 million instead of 100 million if you get an offer from the SEC or Big 10. Plus you get the peace of mind that you have a home no matter what. Could that be the way the Big 12 makes themselves a super conference? Not all those ACC schools will get invites to the SEC or Big 10, and that might help ease their uncertainty.

Remember when certain conference were cancelling entire seasons, some with seasonal delays that were being decided by couple of conference heads who didn't appear to want to salvage anything of a season during the rona? Well this is payback. Those conference teams have long memories and know the revenue lost with such cancellations. So now, many of those teams want out. Who could blame any team in the pac12 for waking up to the realization that your revenues can be decided by jittery conference heads. This is more than payback, it's survival in their eyes. There is strength in numbers of good teams, and if it takes realignment to protect themselves, they want to and will do it.

Haha!...I can see some college football fans exclaiming in the future..let's get this boring regular and playoffs seasons over...let's get to sexy , exciting OFFSEASON!....who wins the offseason 🏆trophy!😵

Pac 12 will stay at 10 teams for the next 2 years. After that they will pick up Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Kansas, Kansas State.

How about this! XII get's UW, OU, UU, CU, ASU, AU, SDSU, BSU SDSU & BSU get half shares 20 years or until they win the BIG XII football championship game!!!! 🙂 That adds the states of Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado to the BIG XII