A Final Goodbye To Pac-12 Football, A Conference That Deserved So Much More | The Touchback
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There will never be another Pac-12 football game again, at least in the form we know the conference as. Yet, after another fun and vastly underrated season, you still can’t help but think why anyone would want to blow this up over a few extra dollars. Look, I know I’m hopelessly hopeless when it comes to the topic of Pac-12 football. But its implosion is utterly stupid and that cannot be said enough.
Jonathan Smith has left Oregon State, a move by the way history tells us won’t end well, the Washington State Cougars coug’ed one last time in conference play and somewhere in a Manhattan penthouse former Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott is content with his terrible decisions while eating caviar off $100 bills.
Fans out west, by and large, don’t want this. Sure, you have a few loudmouths happy to leave their rivals in the dust. They will also be the same ones bitching about 9am PST kickoffs when their program plays back east in ten months' time. So it goes.
I’ve visited as many Pac-12 stadiums as possible over the past two seasons knowing the end was nigh in some form. Of course, I didn’t foresee the complete demolition of the conference. It still feels surreal.
On my travels, there was never a single bad experience. Sure, some games were more memorable than others.
I will always cherish these memories, the long drives and brutal travel days. You haven’t lived life until you have visited West Wendover, Nevada on the way back from Salt Lake City, ate at Burgerville in Oregon or tried to cram in a stop at the Grand Canyon during a trip to see the Arizona schools play. That’s a huge mistake unless you’re also going to Las Vegas.
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RIP Pac-12 and coming off their most competitive year, too. Remember Colorado??? The death knell started when the commish wanted to negotiate an exclusive television deal with Apple TV. Chancellors, were, uh yeah, no. I do think it will be fun to watch a USC-Michigan matchup, etc. but I too am a traditionalist.
As a Washington State lifer I'm not entirely sure we *haven't* been thrown off the cliff like a Spartan baby, it's just gonna be a slightly slower fall with the lawsuit victory. Everything about the school is stacked against us; it's extremely difficult for us to pull recruits higher than three-star and it's only going to get worse. Our NIL collective, bless their hearts, is functionally a group of alumni passing the hat around on Twitter and at games.
Mostly, though, my concerns about the future have given way to rage about how people have talked about us. Arizona outright saying they didn't want us or Oregon State around, Seattle sports media getting their digs in at us even as we were being actively screwed over by Washington, UCLA and USC fans having the most Daddy's Money attitude of any fanbase in the conference made the whole ordeal way more painful and infuriating. Big 10 fans were also extremely callous for no reason at all????
Big Ten fans are the worst. Wazzu would be like in the upper third of that conference without question and yet they are out here acting like Rutgers would runaway with the Pac 12. Also, all the Big Ten fans' social media comments welcoming Washington and Oregon were vomit inducing. Who does that?
Destroying the history, student experience, and fan experience all for the allure of possible extra funding and success that will probably not manifest or be lower than expected.
gbalph4 I been asking this question since the beginning of the season. What going to happen when the Television money runs out? People are cutting back on their spending. Cost of cable and satellite television is going up. People are going to cut the cord. The ten schools are leaving the conference are going to be the most affected because they are doing most of the traveling.
@tylernelson3343 it make absolutely no sense for this break up. USC makes money anyway, they are a name brand, they got greedy. The pac 12 problems would have been fixed eventually. Stupid move!. USC practices in warm weather and will play in cold weather. Good luck plus they will have jet lag. And as far as the fans go, they can't afford to fly east every game. The move will be popular at first then this excitement will die down and come to the realization that this was a bad move.
@@randyacuna5643 seems like they be losing more money on the traveling especially with Olympic sports can’t wait for USC volleyball team playing in Rutgers on a Wednesday. The fans are not going to travel every road games on the east coast because of the costs.
Hansen sucked too