(10-18-2016 05:18 PM)pesik Wrote: (10-18-2016 04:19 PM)EDLUVAR Wrote: (10-18-2016 03:58 PM)pesik Wrote: (10-18-2016 12:58 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote: Pac 12 is comprised of state flagship universities (with Berkeley, UCLA and UW all being top 10 or top 15 public schools) and two top 30 universities in Stanford and UCLA. They won't take anyone from Texas unless it's UT and potentially someone else. They aren't going to settle for anything less than UT, which is a top 10 public university.
Okstate was offered an invite
ASU was offered an Invite and is a member (they weren't grandfathered in)
Your theory has many holes
Again no one is denying they want UT. But they are no where a lock for UT..the big 12 could announce a 15year GOR extension tomorrow in some backroom deal as a reason they didn't expand (who knows) and Texas could easily choose the big 10 or SEC
They won't settle as long as UT is a possibility.. But the minute that door closes for whatever reason. Houston becomes an extremely viable option for them
If they don't get UT I could see Kansas or csu. Even Hawaii. PAC will not invite any city schools.
UCLA???????
I hate all the silly stipulations you guys are making up..
must be the state flagship...what about asu, usc and ucla
cant be a city school.. what about ucla
and ed please stop using illogical arguments...you tout state flagships alot for why MWC was better a while back...no one cares if you are the state flagship of a state with a 800k population
TV may care. Why else are the contracts so similar? All the eyes and exposure are in the east as you like to point out. And while bsu draws better tv numbers than AAC teams having land grants sure seems to help. Both conferance were in flux adding several new members.
Some info on the UC system
The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-system public higher education plan, which also include the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System.
Governed by a semi-autonomous Board of Regents, the University of California has 10 campuses, a combined student body of 238,700 students, 19,700 faculty members, 135,900 staff members and over 1.6 million living alumni as of spring 2015.
The University of California's campuses have large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every academic discipline and it is widely regarded as one of the top university systems in the world. As of 2016, UC faculty and researchers have won 62 Nobel Prizes.[4] UC campuses are perennially ranked highly by various publications. Most notably, UC Berkeley and UCLA are both ranked as Top 10 Universities worldwide by U.S. News & World Report and UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego are respectively ranked 3rd, 12th, and 14th worldwide by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.