Rip Pac-12

There’s been a few notable deaths this year: Tina Turner, Sinead O’Conner, Paul Reubens…but the biggest has been the demise of the Pac-12 Conference.

Of course I said the same thing in my very first post about Big 12. Now, two years later, the Big 12 looks as powerful as ever. But as it stands now, the Pac-12 will only have four schools going into the 2024 season (Stanford and Cal will almost certainly be picked up by another conference in the next year or so).

The most sensible option is to have the remnants of the Pac-12 join the Mountain West Conference. But no disrespect to San Jose State and Fresno State, I’m sure Stanford and Cal will see these schools as a massive downgrade from playing Oregon, UCLA, and USC every year. So that marriage won’t last long. In short, no matter how we roll the dice, the Pac-12 is cooked.

Poor Bill Walton. Gone are the days of him saying “the Conference of Champions” to fill up airtime 😔