Utah Joining Pac-10 on Wednesday?
by outsidethesidelines on Jun 15, 2010 9:50 PM CDT
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PrintAccording to the following report from Comcast Sports, Utah has been given an official invitation to join the Pac-10 and it's effectively signed, sealed, and delivered:
The Pacific-10 Conference will extend an invitation to the University of Utah to become the league's 12th team, Comcast SportsNet has learned exclusively from sources close to the situation.
A press conference is expected to formalize the announcement on Wednesday.
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It won't be the money grab the Pac-16 was....
But two solid markets in Denver and Salt Lake sure don’t hurt entirely.
Still, having 16 with Texas, Oklahoma, USC, and Oregon would’ve been huge for Larry Scott.
Fumbles. It was always Fumbles
I've followed this
conference realignment stuff faithfully for days, but I am now going to knock myself out head-butting a brick wall, and will awake on game day. I don’t care who is in what conference when I wake up just as long as there is still football.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Jun 15, 2010 10:04 PM CDT reply actions
Now the-cry baby-Striked phrase Senator from Utah can do his real job.
He is great who can do what he wishes; he is wise who wishes to do what he can.
Here we go again..
"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"
by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 15, 2010 10:11 PM CDT reply actions
So now when we get our revenge and kick their asses it will be vs a pac-10 team.
sweet
What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.
-Hank Hill
Exactly
In fact, since neither Whittingham nor Saban are afraid to schedule decent opponents for openers . . .
Time to lobby for a rematch I say, give Alabama a chance for some payback. Way you guys have opened seasons lately, only the very bold would dare to schedule you guys first up.
This probably does make it much more likely that we would schedule them.
Not that we would’ve avoided them before out of fear of losing (even though clearly that could happen), but just that we are looking to schedule BCS opponents for our 1 big OOC game each year. This makes it a much more prestigious matchup.
Congratulations, MBM
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 15, 2010 10:14 PM CDT reply actions
Awesome!
I had no idea that they had beaten that many quality opponents in the last few years. Still doesn’t make me feel any better about them whipping our arse, lol. Good write up Outsidethesidelines.
by AlltheGreatQBs on Jun 15, 2010 10:23 PM CDT reply actions
Utah?
Who is Utah? There is no such thing.
Auburn fans are like slinkys... not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
Look for Utah to dominate the 12-PAC
They play a Florida style offense and now will be in a conference they can recruit in. With USC in traction and the rest of the 12-PAC being fairly mediocre, I think that Utah will be competitive as is and will soon dominate after a few recruiting years.
Dominate?
Look, Utah’s a good program, and I know they kicked your ass a few years ago. Utah should be a very good team in this conference. But you think they will dominate just because they run a spread offense?
If that’s your only criteria, let me remind you of another team in the Pac-10 that runs a spread offense.
--Dave
Addicted to Quack, SBN's Oregon Ducks blog
by David Piper on Jun 16, 2010 10:53 AM CDT up reply actions
Agreed
Utah doesn’t have ten yars of stacking up talent. You look at Oregon, they typically kick more raw talent off their team every year then we ever land.
Utah has agood coach, we polich orugh guys well. But we don’t have the talent top to bottom the top few teams in that league do.
We can be competitive, but domination?
Marbles in your mouth?
Mean? what the hell are you trying to say in that first sentence of the second graph.
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk.
by That Other Dave on Jun 16, 2010 2:55 PM CDT up reply actions
He
means they throw Polish Rough Stones at their players in order to get them to play hard. What part of that is unclear?
"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken
Once...
…when I was in the clink, this dude tried to polich orugh me, and I had to bite off his ear….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 16, 2010 8:20 PM CDT up reply actions
shouldn't this read..
Florida runs a Utah style offense? Urban ran it there first after all.
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk.
by That Other Dave on Jun 16, 2010 11:07 AM CDT up reply actions
I just can't wait for the protests in Berkley...
…over their offensive mascot.
Roll Bama Roll - The Champagne of Bama Blogs.
...maybe the protesters will go climb a tree or something.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
by AlabamaJammer on Jun 16, 2010 7:12 AM CDT up reply actions
What's their defensive mascot?
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 16, 2010 8:21 PM CDT up reply actions
/slow clap
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
by AlabamaJammer on Jun 16, 2010 9:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Decades of angst
Washed away.
Becareful of what you wish for mighty Utes, you may one day get just that.
This sucks.
The BYU/ Utah rivalry was a hatefest right up there with Army/Navy and Alabama/auburn.
U of U? Never...lol
There is no reason why they can't continue to play
every year. Just because GA and GA Tech aren’t in the same league doesn’t mean they don’t still hate each other, same with Fl and FSU.
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk.
by That Other Dave on Jun 16, 2010 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions
Cougars...
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 16, 2010 8:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Good for Utah
They’ve been a quality up and coming team for a while now, and it’s good to see them get the chance to play in a big boy league. I hope they come in the first season and dominate. They have the potential to turn the new PAC 10 on its ear, and I for one look forward to it. I only wish that the PAC 10 had taken Boise St. instead of Colorado. Hopefully that Senator from Utah will shut the hell up now.
So what are the new PAC-12 divisions?
I’m assuming Arizona, Arizona ST., Utah and Colorado in one division, but what will the other 2 teams be?
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk.
by That Other Dave on Jun 16, 2010 11:09 AM CDT reply actions
The East/West thing wouldn't work too well...
…but I’d assume with that split it would be WSU/UCLA.
It might be better to go North/South, but that would make the North about as weak as the Big XII X old North division. Wait, who am I kidding. It would be OU/Utah on the north and USC/UCLA in the south with a spattering of member institutions having a chance every now and again.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
by AlabamaJammer on Jun 16, 2010 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions
There are more theories on this subject than the Kennedy assasination
Some people want to put the NorCal schools with the NW schools, and LA schools with the AZ/mountain schools. Some like the “zipper” model splitting natural rivals, but insuring they meet every year. Nobody outside California likes having all 4 Cal schools together because of the likelihood it sets up a Big XII situation (and we all see how that worked out for Colorado and Nebraska). There is the “Pod” proposal that splits it into groups of 4. There is even a faction who thinks there is no need for divisions, simply preserve the rivalries, and set up a seeding system that determines the schedules.
So, I hope this has helped clear it up (heh heh). As a Duck I definitely think the last thing I want is all the California schools together because it puts everyone outside of Cali at a disadvantage for recruiting.
Say what you mean, and say it mean. - Clint Ruin
That's not what a cougar told me.
…and I mean Wazzu.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
by AlabamaJammer on Jun 16, 2010 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions
What were the last two schools to join the PAC conference to get it to eight schools?
Have the traditional six and the upstart six divisions.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
by AlabamaJammer on Jun 16, 2010 4:47 PM CDT up reply actions
It's complicated
Oregon, Oregon State, Cal and UW founded the PCC in 1915, added WSU in 1917, and Stanford in 1918. In 1922 USC, Idaho, and Montana were added, and UCLA joined in 1928. Montana resigned in 1950, The PCC was dissolved in 1959. At which point the AAWU (American Association of Western Universities) was founded with the California schools plus UW (The dirty Dawgs betrayed there NW brethren but that’s another story) in 1962 WSU joined and UO and OSU were readmitted in 1964. The name was changed to the PAC 8 in 1968. The Arizona Schools joined in 1978.
So I suppose the answer to your question is the Oregon schools, despite the fact that they were charter members of the original PCC, of which UCLA, and USC were the most recent additions. Either way these PAC 8 have been tied at the hip for a long time in one form or another.
Say what you mean, and say it mean. - Clint Ruin
Funny, some of the stories I've been reading show UCLA and USC in the south...
With ASU/UA/Utah/Colorado.
In a way it ends up being the charter’s vs the upstarts. Thanks for the history lesson. I’m still getting used to PAC-10 football.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
by AlabamaJammer on Jun 17, 2010 1:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Thanks for the love
I’d love to see a rematch. As a Ute fan who was in New Orleans, I can say Bama fans were the classiest fans I’ve ever been around.
Congrats on your Championship
I'll be interested...
…to see how they divide that conference; if they go East/West, Nebraska will really be smiling….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 16, 2010 8:29 PM CDT up reply actions
There is no way that Larry Scott and company don’t feel that pain tonight in Walnut Creek.
Man, I hate when I have a pain in my Walnut Creek.
Official
The invite is out and the press conference is scheduled for the morrow.
Join in the fun: http://www.blocku.com/2010/6/16/1521552/utah-is-officially-invited-to-pac
Divisions will be
North
WSU
Washington
Oregon
OSU
Cal
The Farm
South
USC
UCLA (sucks)
ASU
Arizona
Utah
Colorado
I’m disappointed. The USC/UCLA/Stanford/Cal series are ANCIENT rivalries.
MAGNIFICENT GRAND CHAMPION CC NCAA BRACKET 2010
just your inclination or a fact?
I can already hear my ASU in-laws bitching about that one.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
by AlabamaJammer on Jun 16, 2010 9:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Sounds like the cure would be a nine game conference schedule with two rival games and two rotating ones.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
by AlabamaJammer on Jun 17, 2010 1:15 PM CDT up reply actions
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