PAC 12
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More TV money. Lots of eyeballs on the west coast. I believe a 9:00 am game on a Saturday morning would actually have high viewership.
I have spent a lot of time on the west coast and sports bars are packed for early NFL games. Why is expansion of a footprint bad? Would you rather a Virginia William & Mary game?
So the PAC 12 is collapsing as a conference because of a lack of eyeballs, and you think the ACC should sign up for that?
No there isn’t, not in this case.
If the ACC was going to do a conference “challenge,” it needs to be with the SEC.
The ACC is in the best college football footprint there is: the south. But the ACC doesn’t have enough of a connection with it because it’s been a second rate football conference for so long. It needs to strengthen its presence in this hotbed.
The PAC 12 doesn’t move the needle one bit. Let it die and a few teams join the Big 12.
What P5 game on Pitt’s future schedule should be cancelled to make room for PAC team?
I would not add a PAC team to ACC schedules without cancelling a P5 opponent on each schedule. That would put the ACC at a disadvantage.
I would not add a PAC team to ACC schedules without cancelling a P5 opponent on each schedule. That would put the ACC at a disadvantage.
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They should have gone the way of osu. Don't play games, go directly to conference championship and get invited to final 4.
The last thing we need is more cross-country games with teams that have zero history with each other. I'd rather see all of college football with more regional rivalry games because those are far more interesting and have a better chance of a close game or upset.
Pitt actually had games with UCLA and USC in the late 60's and early 70's. Playing the SEC or Big 10 imho maintains a regional footprint with opponents that you recruit against playing the Pac 10 offers a different type of opponent. Antway just a thought during the CoVid 19 days of boredom.
Give me a game against WVU 10 times out of 10 over a game against a team like Utah or Oregon State.
Pitt played Washington State at home in 1995, and the only reason that anyone cared was because they may have been the only power conference school in the country that was bad enough for us to beat!
September 28, 1974: Pitt vs USC @ Pitt Stadium and I was there as a teenager. Will never forget the program for the game " TD vs. AD " Tony Dorsett vs. Anthony Davis. Two eventual Heisman Trophy winners. This was year 2 of the "Major Change in Pitt Football". Pitt held its own and gave a valiant effort but fell 16 - 7. Go back and look at Pitt's schedule that year: Florida State, Georgia Tech, USC, North Carolina, Boston College, Syracuse, West Virginia, Notre Dame and Penn State. Navy and Temple being the 2 "easy games". Pitt finished 7-4 that year.
Now, The PAC is garbage ( Just like California ). They are terrible in football and basketball. It's been a long time since John Wooden was at UCLA or John Robinson was at USC. Pitt needs to focus on playing West Virginia + 1 SEC school every year. Let California and the PAC continue to rot away.
And here we have someone from Kentucky talking down California.
Would be a pretty cool conference arrangement.
SC-Clemson
Oregon-Miami
UCLA-Pitt
Arizona-Syracuse
Arizona State-Florida State
Stanford-Virgina
Cal-Georgia Tech
Oregon State-Duke
Washington-Virginia Tech
Washington State-Boston College
Utah-North Carolina
Colorado-Florida State
no NCST or Wake for this iteration.
SC-Clemson
Oregon-Miami
UCLA-Pitt
Arizona-Syracuse
Arizona State-Florida State
Stanford-Virgina
Cal-Georgia Tech
Oregon State-Duke
Washington-Virginia Tech
Washington State-Boston College
Utah-North Carolina
Colorado-Florida State
no NCST or Wake for this iteration.
ESPN today said USC had 50% odds of making the playoffs -- higher than Clemson! So I guess the strategy of not playing any games works ... personally, I think OSU (the Big 10 champ) deserves to play the Pac 12 winner (likely to be USC I guess?) in their self-righteous Rose Bowl game. Kinda like the Bowl Alliance/Bowl Coalition era. Neither league deserves the playoffs since they didn't want to play a season of real length.
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Please spare me the "Kentucky Jokes". I can easily talk down California and Western Pennsylvania for that matter from where I sit in Kentucky.
Is that the game Sadiq Durham made a few plays to help us win? The good ole days of playing on campus in front of 15k people.
I was also at that game. Gary Burley was a beast in the middle for us and that's when I knew Johnny Majors, PITT could play with any school in the country. I believe about 55k-60k fans in the stands, more than the Steelers would draw.
You can talk down anyone you want, but when you do, expect to get push back. And I am not making a joke about Kentucky. Compared to California, Kentucky is much lower on economic output per capita and median income per household.
I bet you are an accountant that moves paper from point a to point b. You probably passed the CPA exam and work at some large company. The last original thought you had was about your best friend and you dressed as his sister. Right?
I have tried to expunge all thoughts of that season from my head, so I don't remember.
The next time I post a way outside the box idea that you disagree with and think "SMF has really outdone himself with this terrible idea," I want you to remember this one.
When I skimmed through the post, I thought he was going to suggest a Pac 12/American series and I thought, ok, I could go for that. Then he says ACC/Pac 12 and I'm like nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
The thing is most of your ideas are just as dumb as this one. It's just you who doesn't understand that.
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