PAC 12 Demise Pool

Wild Turkey said:
Playoff didn't do this the PAC being inept for years did this.

Everything had to do with network money and if the PAC had been worth 70 million a team no one leaves. When you are only worth about 50 million a year and other conferences are worth 100 million the big dogs are going to leave when they can.

To get the money you need eyeballs and the PAC fanbases were grossly handicapped by crappy network packages, bad start times and being in a part of the country where CFB is not that big of a deal. The PAC and its teams could have marketed themselves better but instead made mind-numbing decisions that only made things worse. Except for USC, Oregon and rarely Washington, it was tough to get a PAC team to play away from the West Coast unless it was Standford vs ND and they desperately needed the exposure.

We could still be under the BCS and this would be happening.
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Yep. They hired Larry Scott who decided that promoting Olympic sports over the sport that generated the revenue that pays for those sports and they kept him around for years after it was clear that he was clueless.

I feel bad for Kliavkoff. He wasn't perfect, but he tried his best to save the conference...shit was too far gone. Now he's going to go down in history as the guy who oversaw the death of the PAC, but it wasn't his fault.
 
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What day and time did usc and UCLA announce they were leaving?
 
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