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Originally Posted by Dream Crusher
Oh the horror, the best teams will now be playing the best teams on a regular basis. We should go back to an 8 game season, play 4 patsies, and then 4 conference games capped off in Bluebonnet Bowl glory!
It's not like USC's schedule is going to get any tougher. The regular ass big 10 teams are just as regular as the regular ass pac teams. And they always play a ton of marquee non con games anyway. Nothing stops them from playing Texas and Alabama and Ohio State (all of which I think they've done).
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Sorry West Coasters but the blame for this rests solely on your own shoulders. Spend less of your time in rush hour traffic and more time supporting your teams both on TV and at the games. It was so painfully obvious that the next Pac-12 TV deal was going to be terrible because the West coast fanbase is absolutely awful. USC had no choice but to leave and the Big 10 had to pull the trigger because if they didn't the SEC would.
USC absolutely had a choice. They're going to make like $100m a year or something in the B1G, and they probably would've gotten $60m a year on the new Pac deal. This isn't a company where their job is to maximize revenue at all costs. They have actual stakeholders like students and alumni that presumably care. They also could've tried to strong arm the rest of the Pac into a larger share than $60m and idk, maybe they would've gotten it.
Also, lol at talking about "support your team and spend less time in rush hour traffic." UCLA has the 7th best attendance in the Pac and is dead last in stadium fullness. USC is 2nd in attendance and 6th in stadium fullness.
If supporting your teams in person was what mattered, Utah, Washington and Oregon would be headed to the B1G, not UCLA and USC.