Kliavkoff Welcomes Pac 12 Expansion Possibilities

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Here’s my question and it’s really the only thing that matters to me. Can we play for all the marbles yet?

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Where did you get that quote from? I assume its a joke but someone else is using part of it.

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I made it up, but convince me it isn’t what he’s thinking.

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That won’t be true if UH is able to win more consistently than both UT and A&M and play in better bowl games than both of those programs. Fans, especially the ones in Houston, love watching a winner, not a loser. A UH team that averages 11 wins a season will get more viewers in Houston than a UT or A&M team that only averages 8 wins. And this scenario is likely to happen with UT and A&M in the SEC and UH in the PAC.

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USC and UCLA are not going to a midwestern conference. Honestly I don’t think the money is that important to them.

In their eyes they live in their own country with its own rules, lifestyle, and weather….what-have-you.

But USC agreeing to travel to Iowa City, Minneapolis, and New Jersey for conference games makes me laugh my _____ off.

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Hoops has conferences cooperating to make good matchups happen. ND plays 5 games versus ACC teams. So, the Big Ten and PAC 12 making an effort to schedule each other for football makes a lot of sense, other than potentially giving up a game with an OOC cupcake.

Cross-scheduling will be the “expansion” talked about.

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Let’s hope the PAC is seriously considering a UH, TT, KU, OS invite.

It won’t get them immediate returns but it would put the PAC in front on markets that will be excited to have them and excited to help them grow their footprint.

Plus, UH and UCLA as bookmarks is not bad. It chapters the large public school in the #2 and #4 largest cities in the US.

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I agree about the immediate returns. Have graduated payments at first working up to a full share.

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We should have a rivalry with UCLA like Astros and Dodgers. LOL

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You must be too young to remember Catie McNown and the sprinkler heads.

Or a little something called the Game of the Century.

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I was there for the sprinkle heads game . Wish I was too young. Hahaha

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Those were fun games, we’ve had a good few games with UCLA but not nearly enough to have anything close to what could be called a “rivalry”

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1st choice is Pac 12 invite with TT,OK St and Kansas. That puts them at 16 and puts them in a for sure P4 conference.

2nd choice is all the remaining Big 12-4 and they add UH, Cinn, Memphis and UCF. Might be a P5 still but a lot less money to go around.

3rd choice is AAC adds 5 of the Big 12-4 in hopes to make it a P5 conference. I would add Tech, TCU, Baylor Ok St and Kansas. to make the AAC a 16 team league. Basketball will have be 17 with Wichita state.

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Not agreeing or disagreeing with your post, but basketball would be 16 as well. I don’t know where you tallied up 17 from.

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In this unlikely scenario

  1. UH
  2. SMU
  3. Tulsa
  4. Tulane
  5. Navy
  6. Memphis
  7. UCF
  8. USF
  9. ECU
  10. Temple
  11. Cincinnati
  12. Wichita St.
  13. Texas Tech
  14. TCU
  15. Baylor
  16. Oklahoma St.
  17. Kansas
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We have 11 schools in football. Add 5 from the Big 12 and that makes 16 football schools. On the basketball side Wichita State is only playing basketball so we would have 17.

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Navy doesn’t play roundball in the AAC.

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Taking Baylor out would be a round 16 teams.

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Taking Baylor out would make 15, Navy does not play basketball in The American. There is a reason why the AAC able to have Navy as FB only and WSU as a non-football school. AAC FB has 11 as well as AAC Basketball.

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You are making assumptions. We do not know.