Jon Joseph

SDSU 7-4 in its last 11 football games versus the Pac.

Going to be tough. UConn is now ranked #1 by KenPom.

Defense Does Make A Difference Invite these folks NOW!

Love the take. CFB/CBB is big business. Money matters. You are so right. Instead of getting on the bus in the last 10 years the 'leaders' of the conference missed the bus yet built a lousy Network bus station.

Who Knew? A spring game sellout at CU is to be broadcast by ESPN. Colorado sells out spring game as hype builds for Deion Sanders’ debut WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Hiring Deion Sanders as the school’s head football coach is already paying dividends for the University of Colorado. The school announced on Thursday it had sold out its spring game on April 22. It makes a difference when a program opens its pocketbook. CU is definitely committed to returning as a big-time player in CFB.

So, so much at the level Aaron plays on is about chipping and putting. He can launch it but it always comes down to drive for show and putt for dough.

Bummer! For the 5th decade in a row, my invite to play at the Masters in Augusta has been lost in the mail! Aaron can move the ball with the best distance wise but he is streaky based on a not-so-solid putting game. Lots of fun to watch Aaron play. Used to love to watch Jake on the regular and then on the senior tour.

He has done the no-brainers. Shutting down the San Francisco location and moving the Network facilities into cheaper digs. At the same time he for some unknown reason hired an Assistant Commissioner. And I'd still like to know what if anything Merton Hanks has done to earn his salary. He was sucker punched by the B1G, Kevin Warren, Carol Folt, and the new B12 commissioner. He IMO has been asleep at the switch. He failed in regards to mission 1, keeping the LA schools on board.

Love the GIF! After much ado about nothing I do not think the Legislature will not insist that the Beavers tag along. Kind of like, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech, and UCLA and CAL. I'd be very surprised if Oregon doesn't have more legislative juice than Oregon State. And I think Uncle Phil would not let Oregon State prevent Oregon from moving on up.

I believe that at the 'end of the day,' Both the B1G and the SEC will have 20 to 24-member teams. A defacto Super Conference. Depending on whether players are deemed employees, I think Northwestern and Vanderbilt, for example, might drop out.

No. Oregon and UW have not assigned their respective media rights beyond 2023. There is nothing to restrain Oregon and UW from leaving after 2023 without having to pay an exit fee except perhaps the Oregon legislature insisting upon Oregon and Oregon State playing every season as is the case with Florida vs FSU, Clemson vs South Carolina, and Kentucky vs Louisville. I do not think the Ducks would at all mind playing OR ST OOC every season.

I think the Ducks if invited go after next season. Otherwise, Oregon would be in limbo media-rights wise and I'm reasonably certain the B1G would want to arrange a 16-team schedule come 2024 and not wait a year for teams in addition to SC/UCLA. What kind of media deal would the Pac-10 be able to come up with if Oregon and say Washington, were only members for 1 season of the new media deal? Plus, leave after the 2023 season and there is $0 owed in exit fees. Business-wise I think FOX. CBS and NBC would also want to get a deal and a schedule done in 2024.

Charles posted a perfect-pondering point post as to whether Oregon and Washington will receive an invitation to the B1G come late April or May. Matt Hayes, a gentleman who has covered college sports for decades opined a few weeks back that the B1G is not going to leave the LA schools on a west coast island. Many of us on this site have chided the LA schools' move to the B1G as being insensitive toward student-athletes, especially those playing non-revenue sports when it comes to travel covering distances from California to New Jersey and Maryland. I think there is a way in which travel can be mitigated. Oregon and UW joining the B1G would bring the B1G conference to 18 member institutions. A perfect fit for three, six-team pods. WEST - Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Washington. CENTRAL - Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, Penn State, Wisconsin EAST - Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue, Rutgers. [Penn State plays in the Central Division to balance competition; especially, in football.] Annually, Oregon would play Iowa, Nebraska, UCLA, USC, and UW in football. Out-of-conference (OOC), Oregon would continue to play Oregon State and Washington would play Washington State. This would leave Oregon with 4 conference games and 2 OOC games. The remaining 2 OOC games could be played against teams on the west coast. 2 of the remaining 4 conference games would be played at Autzen Stadium. If this on occasion required Oregon to travel to the eastern time zone; well, Oregon has been there-done that. Football is the easy part of the travel calculus For other sports, including basketball, the conference schedules could be weighted to play the home and away against pod members, and the rest of the conference schedule creatively filled out. For instance, Baseball could travel to Rutgers along with Penn State and Maryland for a round-robin trio of games. Same with UW traveling to Chicago for a round-robin of games with Minnesota, Illinois, Northwestern, and Wisconsin. School work? As a result of what we learned from the Covid crisis, many classes can be taught online. Who (and I am not certain of Who is) knows if an invite will be coming? But should an invite be coming and accepted by Oregon I do not think fear of exaggerated travel need be realized.

I agree that it stinks but in big business, you evolve or die in bankruptcy or simply fade away. Big businesses that are not properly managed fail. And the management of the Pac-12 has been ruinous for over a decade. You reap what you sow; however, the Oregon brand should survive and thrive so long as the Oregon powers-that-be are 1st looking out for Oregon. IMO it stinks even further that the #7 CFB in viewership in 2022 is even part of this mess.

Great info on Dodd but Mizzou is of course in the SEC. Something must have been done by Larry to tick DD off. I know a number of 'journalists' who cover CFB and CBB nationally were not enamored with the Pac-12 deciding not to add the orphaned B12 teams while having the hubris to call the Pac-12 'an elite club.' PR-wise the conference has done nothing for over a decade to compete on the PR front. Oregon is the exception with the NIKE uniform changes and the poster of Joey Harrington in NYC. Not so long ago the Pac-12 Network had no coverage of signing day. Dodd is over-the-line with his Pac-10 media coverage but where is the dissenting word from our commissioner? We hear from the president of Arizona, the president of ASU, Utah's AD but the Pac commissioner is as silent as the Sphinx.

ND, good take. But the 16 best teams from the ACC, B12, and Pac-10 would not measure up money-wise with the B1G and the SEC. Travel would be crazier than joining the B1G and creating a viable pod system. Along with Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers also joined as reduced revenue partners. And Maryland had to pay a big penalty to leave the ACC, just as Oklahoma and Texas are paying to leave the B12. Oregon can exit the Pac-12 at the end of the existing media deal at no cost; just like UCLA and USC. I know it is 'phantom money' but I think the ability to leave at no cost has to be taken into consideration. As the Pac-10 media negotiations drag it appears that without a rabbit-out-of-the-hat miracle, Oregon will make more with a reduced revenue share in the B1G than in the Pac-10 and will not have to be the beta site for college sports streaming. It stinks, but this is the natural procession of college football and Men's basketball being entirely monetized. And in the case of the Pac-12 add in over a decade of urine-poor management.

On the other hand, the conference could leave the Ducks? Love to know how Oregon voted when the Pac-12 could have eliminated the B12 and been the major player in the Central time zone.

Agree with the spot on comment Charles; however, Dodd has a direct pipeline into a fool of a Pac-10 president. It's not like AZ president Robbins is an undisclosed source. Robbins is on the loose and it appears to me that Pac-10 Commissioner has lost control of the process? What kind of leader is GK? He was sucker punched by FOX, Kevin Warren, UCLA, USC and the new B12 commissioner. He cannot trust a board member(s) in the middle of a negotiation on which hangs the balance of the conference to keep their mouths shut. He has developed no national reporting source to counter the assertions od Dodd. In a similar situation I do not see an SEC president anointing himself as the conference spokesperson instead of Greg Sankey.

Who in the hell made Robbins, president of a school that has never won a football title in the Pac conference, the spokesman for the Pac-10? And why does this buffoon keep speaking with Dennis Dodd? Dodd for some reason seems gleeful about the possibility of the Pac-10 disappearing. With 'partners' like Robbins, and Crow at ASU, Stanford, and CAL, why wouldn't Oregon take a lesser revenue share and join the B1G? GK keeping mum about a new media deal is no longer IMO helping the conference. George, what is the hold-up in finalizing a deal? Stop making this process feel like attending Waiting for Godot night after night.

David, with or without the ACC it will be a battle for the Bronze Medal. You could take the 14 top teams from the ACC, the 'new' B12, and Pac-10 and not approach the Power 2 financially or the SEC on the football field. You need to have the money and the will to invest the money in football in particular and also in men's basketball. The best shot at the money will be for Oregon to join the B1G at a reduced incoming share as did Nebraska.

Coach Lombardi would have loved Mario's scheme but Coach Lombardi and his scheme are both long gone. Thankfully Mario left Oregon before completely ruining the brand. He will recruit well at Miami but we will see the Canes not playing to its roster ranking. We will see the talent of talented QBs wasted. (This season Oregon plays at Texas Tech and against former Duck, Tyler Shough. Texas Tech is 8 and 0 in games Tyler has started and finished and the Red Raiders in 2022 ran more plays than any team in the nation and blew out Ole Miss in its bowl game. Shough's talent was wasted at Oregon. And Justin Herbert in the NFL compared to his play at Oregon speaks for itself.)

It is still all about the Jimmies and the Joes. Oregon does have a Blue Chip Roster (more than 50% 4* and 5* recruits) but is not close to the roster strength of a number of SEC teams and Ohio State. When the playoff goes to 12 teams it will be very difficult for any team without a 1st round bye to win 3 games in a row. TCU had the talent and scheme to beat Michigan but was blown out by Georgia. The SEC has owned (along with SE located Clemson) the BCS and the BCS x 2 so-called playoffs. I see no reason for this to change. Division Street is a top-drawer NIL partner but is not going to outspend the zealot boosters in the SEC. The big boys play their football in the southeast. Oregon will get a recruit or two from the southeast but never on the same plane as Bama, LSU, Georgia, Florida, A+M, Auburn, and other southeast teams such as Clemson and FSU. The OL and DL guys who played for Carroll at USC are not as plentiful out west as once was the case. And the SEC is enticing because of the number of players year after year it puts into the NFL. Also, the SEC is by far the most-watched conference in America. The SEC has tons of money and invests tons of money in football and other sports. The SEC places a premium on winning and not on academics. Oregon came close twice doing it with a then-unique scheme. Oregon could win it all in football but it will take all-world recruiting and outstanding coaching.

Great take, thanks. I look at the scorecard in order to calculate how much money I owe my opponents.

With the Oregon legislature possibly having to approve Oregon moving to the B1G I think an annual game vs OR ST will be mandatory.

Good call but the money flows when you play Power 2 opponents or Clemson, FSU, and maybe Miami.