Jon Joseph

fred, spot on. But if there is one G5 place worth traveling to it is to Hawaii and the most excellent Pacific Islander recruiting grounds.

And next season SC opens vs LSU and UCLA plays at LSU. GULP!

Close to The Death penalty in football with the basketball program also dinged. Clean hands with the roster tampering getting Addison and others on board, right, Coach Narduzzi? No NIL payments to Williams and new recruits whatsoever, right? $10M a year for a guy who lost to Tulane and has a football playoff record of 0-3. Meanwhile, the 'Community College' has a football playoff record of 1-1. Pay to attend admissions scandal. AD was fired for inappropriate conduct. I'm close to certain that the SC president was out of bounds fiduciary-wise when she led the charge not to expand into the Central time zone. And on 3 occasions Carol Pinnochio told the Pac-12 commissioner that it was all good before going Foxy and B1G. Translation of the Chinese - Sorry, I can't make the Pac-12 president's meeting. Sincerely, Carol Folt

Stadium smaller than #18 in the B1G, Northwestern at @47K. Eyes on the prize, football average viewership in 2022. 12. Oregon - 2.210M 34. UW - 1.150M 41. Wazzu - 907K 57. Oregon State - 625K As Charles and John Adams note - Facts are stubborn things. I also note that Oregon State did not turn down the money earned by Oregon and UW from the football playoff and the money earned by Pac-12 schools from the CBB tournament. In recent years, OR ST chipped in with CBB money once. Baseball championships do not equal dollars.

YES!

Good thought but 'capitalism' and 'fairly' do not belong in the same sentence. This is all on terrible leadership from the top down for close to two decades.

I doubt that this will happen, I have a hard time counting past 12!

I hope this is not a total duplication of the above comments. Dump the Oklahoma State and Baylor series regardless of whether the Beavers can clear its own OOC slate. Rob, you are now a B1G Boy. No two-for-one G5 games with playing at Boise State, Utah State, or at any G5 school unless it helps with recruiting such as playing at Hawaii. If OR ST can't clear its slate, replace OK ST and Baylor with certain wins even if you have to buy wins. Last season, Michigan State played Colorado State, Hawaii, and UConn in Ann Arbor and was the #2 seed in the playoff. Come 2024 Oregon's B1G schedule, rightly or wrongly, will have far more cache than playing in the Pac-12. Beat the B1G teams on the schedule, advance to the B1G title game, or finish 3rd in the conference and possibly even 4th in 2024/25 and Oregon will have a very good shot at a spot in the 12-team playoff field so long as it plays but 1 little guy OOC and 2 G5 teams. And the 3 OOC games come 2024/25 all should be played in Autzen. Yes, play Oregon State, likely an MW member when practicable but it takes two to tango. BTW, for the 2nd season in a row, Oregon State is not playing a P5 opponent OOC. And Oregon State's stadium seating capacity is smaller than the smallest B1G (16), Northwestern Ryan Stadium which seats at @43,000.

Austin Mock, The Athletic, predictive model for Pac-12 win totals and odds to win the conference. Every game is simulated thousands of times based on play-by-play data adjusted for the opponent. Below are the odds to win the conference, the number of wins projected for each team likely to be ranked in the AP Poll preseason Top 25, and the best bets according to Mock's model Odds to win the conference. USC - +200 Oregon - +325 Washington - +325 Utah - +500 Oregon State - +1000 Win totals and percentages for winning the conference title. USC - 9.2 - 25.77% Oregon - 9.4 - 22.57% Washington - 9.2 - 20.02% Utah - 9.0 - 17.94% Oregon State - 7.9 - 4.96% And UCLA - 8.6 - 7.89% Mr. Mock's Model (is this a perfect name for a predictive model or what?) likes Oregon's chances far better than Mr. Media. Bets Bets - Arizona - Over 5 wins - +100 Utah - Over 8.5 wins - +120 USC - UNDER 8.5 Wins -110 LET'S PLAY BALL!

Lots of intelligent people will be doing all they can to limit non-revenue sports travel east and west. One thing we know is that tech has taken away much of the need to be in a classroom live for a lecture. This is where ironically, I guess, streaming will come in to help the cause. You can bring the classroom with you on a laptop. I can envision Oregon and UW baseball and softball teams sharing a charter, with tutors on board, and traveling to say, Happy Valley, Pennsylvania for a week of round-robin games vs Penn St, Rutgers, and Maryland. And the same type of travel west for B1G teams located in the east. Ditto for golf, softball, volleyball, and other sports. Fortunately, Oregon and Washington will not have to worry about ice hockey travel. Everything that can be done will be done to accommodate non-revenue sports athletes and to assure Title 9 compliance. And the non-revenue athletes will have the opportunity to perform on a far bigger stage which could translate into significant NIL income. You are now selling your NIL coast-to-coast and not just on the west coast.

Having just watched B1G Now with the positive continuing coverage of adding in Oregon and UW makes me even more certain that the Northwest schools made the right call. Come 2031, the new B1G deal will be off the financial charts and Oregon will be getting a full slice of a huge media pie. Apple has all the money in the world and yet Apple ground down the Pac-10 because it wasn't willing to step up and pay a reasonable amount to run a college sports beta site. And the deal had a 3-year life if the projections needed to get a return on par with the B12 with nowhere to go after 3 years if the Pac-10 canceled out. Why would Oregon and UW, given a choice, not pass on this for the security that comes with being a member of the Power 2? Why would Oregon trust GK and his friends to put together a better deal three years from now? Certainly, I respect your POV but for Oregon to pass on this opportunity would be on par with the senseless business decisions and non-decisions made under the reign of Larry and the Captain of the Larry Team, Michael Crow. I am so happy that Crow will now be in Oregon's rearview mirror. I'm also happy that Oregon will be in a conference where SC is not driving the bus. Many of the medals heroes win are granted posthumously.

Yes. And Jim Delaney's' idea about forming a network dedicated to one conference was laughed out of the college football world room.

However, in 2018 ESPN offered to buy and operate the Pac-12 Network and sign the Pac-12 on for a 12-year media deal. Pac-12 leaders (?) demurred and Larry kept his multi-million dollar network CEO salary in place. I doubt that ESPN was going to pay a premium for the network but I do think that ESPN would have returned each school's investment and the network would have had 'varsity-like' coverage and be up on every available cable outlet. (Neil Everett might still have a World Wide Leader job.) Distributions from the network would have met and likely exceeded the network projected revenues. And in 2018, ESPN was in a financial position not only to acquire the network but also to pay a healthy price for the conference's Tier 1 media rights. USC could have again received a bigger piece of the media pie and the Pac-12 is not RIP. Another example of See Foot, Shoot! You reap what you sow and don't sow.

Likely because CBS and NBC knew by following Fox's lead if could get Oregon and UW at a discount.

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That's what it said and I agree that OR ST is not in a position to demand a full share.

Scott Dochterman covers the B1G for The Athletic (paywall.) Below are Scott's predictions for the 2024 Oregon and UW schedules. OREGON - Home - Washington, UCLA, OHIO STATE (YES!), Maryland (The Helmet Clash?), Minnesota Away - USC, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska - 1 East Coast trip and 2 Central time zone trips, not bad at all. WASHINGTON - Home - USC, Iowa, Purdue, Penn State (a B1G biggie.) Away - UCLA, OREGON, Maryland, Michigan State (back-to-back?), Wisconsin. 2 Eastern time zone trios; 1 Central time zone trip. Scott came close to nailing the B1G (16) permanent-flex schedule. Would be nice to have 5 conference games at home in 2024 with only 1 traditional B1G biggie, Ohio State on the schedule and coming to Autzen. If Scott's projection is correct, I like Oregon's 2024 schedule more than UW's schedule. Scott does believe that the West Coast teams will play one another every year.

1 LA school a year and the final regular season game versus UW could very well happen. In CBB and the non-revenue sports, I think Oregon will see a double dose, or more, of the LA schools and UW.

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Upon further review, my call may not stand. Fox is paying mucho dinero for the LA schools and football is the one sport with the fewest travel concerns. At the very least I see Oregon playing one of the LA schools every year and playing UW in the last game of the regular season. But: What In The Heck Do I Know?