Tag: PAC-12

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 😔

RIP Big XII

Fuck podcasts.

One of the worst things about the internet are podcasts. They just remind me that most people in the world are boring.

Hell, I’M boring.

But instead of bothering you with my terrible voice, I’m going to bother you with my mediocre writing. Because I want to restore to the internet the glory that was once blogging.

I mean, blogging is pretty lame too, but at least it’s not podcasting. Shit.

Not only has the internet ruined everything, but so has Disney. They not only ruined Star Wars and movies in general, but now they are ruining the sacred sport of college football.

Texas and Oklahoma are jumping the sinking ship of what is simultaneously the worst conference in the Power 5 and the most exciting, the Big 12, for the far more lucrative SEC. I mean, on its surface, this sounds great!

But it’s terrible. So…so terrible.

In case you haven’t heard, Bob Bowlsby, the Big 12 commissioner, has accused ESPN…a subsidiary of Disney…of pulling the strings behind the Texas and OU move and the subsequent dissolution of his league. Can he prove it? Who knows?

Will it matter?

Almost certainly not.

The Big 12’s days are numbered. The SEC will only increase its dominance over the sport, and Disney will reign in the profits because ESPN owns the SEC network.

And why stop with Texas and OU? Florida State and Clemson make plenty of sense in the SEC as well. You know who else does? Duke and North Carolina.

So a warning to the ACC: you better add West Virginia and Notre Dame (if you can). Because Disney is coming after you next. B10 and PAC-12 don’t seem to give a shit about any of this (it appears they actually care about academics).

Why should anyone give a shit about any of this? Aren’t college sports kinda a joke anyway?

Yes. Yes they are.

I mean, it’s just kinda amazing that Disney has been able to dissolve the distinction between jock and nerd…then subsequently piss both off.