duckoflife

The theories about UW and Oregon moving to the ACC are that UW and Oregon would join the ACC alone, probably without any partners. (At the very most also with Stanford and Cal) It wouldn't be some sort of PAC-ACC merger or non-conference scheduling agreement, as you're seeming to suggest. There is some question about whether UW and Oregon would be enough for ESPN to re-negotiate its contract with the ACC. (Coupled with issues like the existing ACC members now getting less frequent games against ND with ND's 5 games now being split among 16 rather than 14 members, ACC teams getting less frequent games against other ACC teams who they actually have traditional relationships with, travel costs from adding UO and UW, etc.). But if the PAC as a whole can get such poor TV contract offers, it's even less likely that the ACC could get more money from adding the entirety of the PAC than from just adding UO and UW.

Noducknewby was suggesting that the Four Corners might have to go to the Big 12 before Oregon and UW can move to the Big 10, because the Big 10 doesn't want bad PR from destroying the PAC. If that's the case, than Oregon and Washington's best interest seriously would be to make the TV contract something like $20 million and/or on some platform like Apple. Oregon and Washington's self interest would literally be to make the PAC's deal as terrible as possible. Anything to get the Four Corners to jump to the Big 12. So then Oregon and Washington can GTHO of the conference too.

If the Big 10 seriously isn't willing to invite Oregon and Washington until after at least one Four Corners schools has joined the Big 12, then that means that Oregon and Washington seriously need to deliberately sabotage the PAC TV contract negotiations. With the offers the PAC is getting, I wouldn't rule out the possibility that Oregon and Washington are sabotaging the negotiations.

There were posts on CSNBBS saying that the ACC is making about $37 million a year. (And that might be for 2021-22- it might be even higher for the 2022-23 school year.) It might be $20 million + $17 million from the ACC network- I don't remember for sure.

At this point, the PAC would be beyond ecstatic to get the money the ACC is getting (about $37 million a year currently), even using services like Amazon or God forbid Apple that are far less visible than the ACC Network. The reason why the ACC tv contract was considered so bad is because until the last year or the ACC was getting about the same revenue as the PAC, even though the ACC has considerably better TV ratings than the PAC. (Even when USC and UCLA were still in the PAC.) The ACC is still undervalued, but not as much as they were until a year or two ago, when the ACC Network was still in its infancy. That's why there are rumors about Oregon and Washington going to the ACC- the undervalued ACC tv contract is still considerably better than anything the PAC probably even has a 1% chance of getting.

Oregon easily has the best recruiting among PAC schools for players coming out of high school. Even if we don't rank at the top of transfer rankings, we'd still rank highest in overall talent.

You're assuming that the Big 10 is actually willing to admit us, even at 1/2 shares or whatever. It seems like the Big 10 doesn't want to invite Oregon or Washington. I can't figure out the logic of how a conference would be willing to invite Maryland and Rutgers, but wouldn't be willing to invite Oregon and Washington. But it seems like that's seriously what's going to happen.