Oh, crum. Sorry about that. I don't have a subscription, and I was able to read it. Also, after I created the post I tested the link and it worked.would you mind a TLR? Or more precisely a TR:BP (tried to read, behind paywall.)
Yeah I couldn't get in either, and I tried the cookie clearing to no avail. Maybe someone can at least paraphrase the highlights without plagiarizing the whole article.would you mind a TL
I don’t fault Cal & Stanford that much. At that point it didn’t seem there was much path forward for the PAC, and they weren’t interested in MWC. Their leaving wasn’t really a surprise. But they left for peanuts - their shares may end up being less than what we’ll have in 2026.
"Respects their decision." I am sure that is his public statement and always will be, it's being political, I am sure personally he's pissed off at all of them. In the long run you are going to have to deal with some of these schools again if you have any chance of restructuring the pac 12. UW and Oregon are gone in football, but the travel will eat up the other programs, so a pac 12 for all other sports might be possible someday. Stanford at this point will not affiliate with any "state school" in CA, but they may change their mind on that after traveling 3000 plus miles for every road game. A lot will happen over the next 2 years, burning bridges only closes doors, at this point WSU and OSU need to keep as many options open as possible. Who knows where this all ends up, but I don't see Cal and Stanford lasting long in the ACC, the travel will be brutal. If FSU, Miami and others leave the ACC, the ACC and Big 12 could combine form their own super league, the population of Washington State and Oregon is still attractive to a national division and maybe WSU and Oregon fall into that. 30+ teams with 4 divisions, there could be a pac 8 division.
