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Good for him and his family. Really weird that people get mad at others who chose to offer to adopt in certain situations. His family, their choice, right?

Chip of Brown says he heard the $24.5 ESPN Pac offer was for a short term deal, they also offered $32 mil for 12-years (2036), and would result in a joint Pac-ACCNet.

No paywall, but let's highlight the nuggets, because they appear to be, uh, big: The schools being considered by the Big Ten, sources told Action Network, are Notre Dame, Oregon, Washington, Stanford, Cal, Miami and Florida State. Hmmm, might imply that UNC and UVA have decided to go SEC? If that's the case, the Clem and FSU are probably the SEC's other targets. I'd guess Miami is the backup plan for the B1G if FSU can't be lured. And probably the caveat that the B1G might end up adding 1 or more schools not named above, for various reasons, to complete their expansion. That said, the B12 probably would play a big part of the B1G and SEC expansion strategies regarding getting the desired ACC schools out. Having a landing spot (albeit lower $$$) for most, maybe even all, of the ACC left behinds would be a key argument in trying to reduce the GOR/exit costs. B12 might offer to take in all the ACC leftovers if ESPN converts the ACCNet into a B12+A+P channel. Still not good news for OR St and WA St. Warren said...being an AAU member is not a requirement for a potential future member. Finally we can put to bed that message boards realignment paint by numbers canard. ...“Literally every Power Five conference school not in the SEC has reached out to the Big Ten”... ...“It could be two months to two years,” another source said. “There could be an odd number, and there are not any specific number of teams”... ...Since the announcement of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten on June 30, Warren said he has not spoken with Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff... ,,,Warren said he has developed a close relationship with new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark.,, ...Could the Rose Bowl actually pivot in the future to a Big Ten-Big 12 matchup?... Warren said he doesn't know how many power conferences we end up with. Meanwhile, a Big Ten coach suggests that it will end up an B1G and SEC only world and playoff, which implies Warren would just use the B12 and then stab then in the back alliance style. Again, I think that would tick off too many important political bases to pull off. ...Warren said he is 100% supportive of an expanded playoff but favors automatic bids to Power Five conference champions. “There should be some difference for conferences who win their conference championships,” Warren said. “There has to be a reward for winning the conference... ...Warren added with an expanded playoff, whether it’s eight, 12 or 16 teams, that “I don’t ever want to get to the point where a committee chose (all the teams) that go to the College Football Playoff...” ...“Greg and I were both trained well by (former SEC commissioner) Mike Slive (Slive hired Warren out of Notre Dame law school). I know Greg’s head fakes....”

B1G football ain't flying commercial (which has schedule padding to keep on time figures up). 1550 miles from LA to Iowa City, jets do roughly 500 mph, so yes, in the 3 hours range, nowhere close to the 6 hours you posted. As the USC and UCLA having multiple road trips, they knew what they were getting into. But those central and eastern time zone games end 2 and 3 hours earlier, so negating most of the time difference in the further travel as compared to flying to schools in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Colorado. In fact a night basketball game in Iowa City will probably result in an earlier arrival back in LA than if played in Seattle or Corvallis, because of the start time difference. There's the travel partner factor, and other ways to reduce scheduling impact. And we've recently learned that the B1G and Pac schools seem to be especially strong proponents of education by ZOOM... The new players union can negotiate time/distance based travel bonuses, conditions for mandatory post-game hotel stays, etc. There's various costs and tradeoffs to this expansion, but it isn't the end of the world. Too much drama about it.

That's all that is, imagination. LA to Iowa City is about 3 hours flying direct, B1G football will almost surely be flying the football team charter the Friday before the game, they aren't going to be driving the bus in LA traffic, so riding allows a likely less stressful chance to do homework, talk or text or surf on their phones, relax, talk, goof around, look out the window at someplace probably new, etc. And this just in: College students in studies have been proven to be capable of sometimes staying up late to quite late, often by their own choice! And (for now) that will be 1 game or west coast trip a year, max. Oh, the humanity! Anyway, the B12 fans should be pretty relaxed, absent something very unexpected, their schools will likely be a part of any ultimate breakaway. Herbstreit (not that he's the most informed, but is in several positions to hear things) has changed his tune in the last few weeks, from predicting 2 superconferences eventually breaking away to now 3. Others have concurred. B1G and SEC will get paid a lot more, but there will likely be a 3rd involved. They need a weaker 3rd to play and hope that will pad their win total, and politically 44 to 48 schools in just 3 conferences breaking away will be very hard to pull off. 3 with 64 to 68 is more likely, with the 3rd superconf on a lower financial tier. But several of those schools have proven adept at rising up to the Cinderella/BCS Buster roles, and will continue to do so. There are very few scenarios where further B1G and SEC expansion doesn't work out fine for the B12. And even if we stay at a P5 or end up at a P5, the B12 will be ok as long as they don't have significant defects to the Pac or ACC. GOR ramifications make ACC raiding unlikely, so likely it's just down to fending off the Pac. An ND or B1G move probably kills that threat, too.

Just go to the map showing total 2020 Tceh enrollment by TX county. Montgomery Co. had 650 of the Houston area's 5035 students. DFW had 10,500+, the Austin area 3000+, and the San Antonio metro 2500+. So well represented in all the state's major markets. But that's where students are from. I can't blame well informed graduates from choosing to live and work elsewhere from the flat, floody, hurricane & mosquito plagued 6 month sauna that is Houston, so this data doesn't reveal how many alumni are there to actually watch TT on TV.

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I doubt we'll see anything major until after the exclusive negotiating window ends Aug. 4 and the Pac can find out what other bidders offer. Being a basketball school, AZ fans may want to go B12, but these decisions are made by presidents and BOR's. AZ is AAU, like 70% of the Pac10, I doubt any admin wants to leave the Pac unless they have to. If AZ decided to go by themselves, is that enough to break the Pac? Probably not, they could add a school, or 3, and just make them football only adds if the Pac wants to keep their snobbery. B12 is probably down to waiting on ND's decision and any resulting fallout. And maybe waiting on Godot.

Start blaming your finger or something again.

Chodorizzi tonight

Is Taquerias Arandas any good?

Oller dog night at the coliseum?

North Carolina at #33 out of 36, just ahead of Kansas. You can see why no conference wants the Tar Heels.

Hi, all of the Jason Scheer energy has been towards raising Arizona into the B12. Abandon the left coast and turn to the right. But does he really have sources, or is he just another crook with a panty on his head?

Rumor is she missed her flight to Lubbock. Portia self-identifies as Yosemite Samantha.

That's a mandatory take the wife out night, cuz ur demanding to watch football uninterrupted all day Conf Champ Saturday and probably noon to bedtime Sunday.

Surprised our B12 fans haven't leaked some sweet, sweet Perryman Group numbers....

I gotta problem with Altuve's double parking (unless Breg lives on a cul-de-sac)....

Get grandpapa on Dancing With The Stars this offseason.

As a casual fan who tunes in as much for the scenery, I thought this year was an especially good course. Bravo. Edit: The dork kid in me was really digging the machine engraving the name on the medal.

Parker Mushinski can't lose.

Pete Rose the 1st base ump?

That's some black magic woah, man.

Our bats need to humiliate this Brash young pitcher.

Did not know that Maldy had a 10-second rewind button.