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Thread: The Trojans, the Ducks, the Bruins, and all those guys: The PAC-12 rivals thread

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    The Arizona State game and today have brought home to me that being an Oregon fan must be really frustrating. Super talented and super dumb team. And they’ve got to stop those cutesy hot dog calls that Chip used to do. They don’t work anymore.
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    Did Aaron Roderick calls that last series for Oregon? Sheesh. 1st and 10 from own 30, up 1 pt, MSU with 3 TO remaining, and with 1:35 left. Lets run it up the middle three times, and then punt.
    Ducks deserve to lose this one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dwight Schr-Ute View Post
    Sounds like SC is going to get their first choice for a new OC. Could be trouble.

    well that didn't last long

    https://twitter.com/JayGlazer/status/1082368611572887554

    I’m hearing Kliff Kingsbury is interviewing with NFL teams, which likely means he has resigned as USC offensive coordinator. USC was blocking him from interviewing foe NFL head coaching openings

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    Quote Originally Posted by sancho View Post
    This seems to be official now. Great news for us, I think. I wonder what would have happened if TTech had kept him. Would he still be NFL bound?

    Classic college football story though. Tech gets too big for its britches and fires a coach who is immediately recognized as valuable by everyone outside of Lubbock.
    hope its not bad news in that USC and Utah could potentially go after the same O.C.?

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    Kingsbury is the new HC of the Arizona Cardinals. A 4-year deal. Hey, if you're going to coach a pro team you might as well do it in the NFL instead of at U$C.

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...KP-5ENJEwthjY4

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    Quote Originally Posted by LA Ute View Post
    Kingsbury is the new HC of the Arizona Cardinals. A 4-year deal. Hey, if you're going to coach a pro team you might as well do it in the NFL instead of at U$C.

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...KP-5ENJEwthjY4

    I saw a tweet yesterday that Kingbury's tenure at USC was 6-times longer than Majerus's.

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    Announced today that Bryce Love tore his ACL in their bowl game. I still can’t believe Moss is coming back.


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    That sucks--no good deed goes unpunished.

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    Interesting data from Jon Wilner:

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    The bowl ratings breakdown

    Ratings for bowl games typically don't occupy a place of prominence on the Hotline's radar, but this is not a typical winter. Over the coming months, conferences will finalize the bowl arrangements for the cycle of games beginning with the 2020 season.

    The partnerships -- both existing and potential -- are based on a variety of factors, and we're not suggesting a single ratings point for any given game will impact the Pac-12's future lineup.

    That said, the viewership numbers occupy a place on the broader canvass that influences decisions made by the bowls and their communities, the conferences and the TV networks.

    With that in mind, and with the data culled from sportsmediawatch (an invaluable site), the Hotline compiled the ratings for the Pac-12 bowl games over the past three years.

    Notes:
    • Ratings not available for all games.
    • I have included, at bottom, the conference's one-off matchups games, such as Utah in the Heart of Dallas Bowl in 2017 or the New Year’s Six matchups, in addition to all the contracted games.)

    • Keep in mind that ratings can be impacted by competition.

    Rose Bowl

    2016: 8.6 rating/15.7 million (USC vs. Penn State)

    2017: 13.7 rating/26.9 million (Georgia vs. Oklahoma/CFP)

    2018: 8.9 rating/16.8 million (Washington vs. Ohio State)

    Alamo Bowl

    2016: 2.6 rating/4.6 million (Colorado vs. Oklahoma State)

    2017: 2.5 rating/4.4 million (Stanford vs. TCU)

    2018: 3.2 rating/5.5 million (Washington State vs. Iowa State)

    Holiday Bowl

    2016: 2.4 rating/4.0 million (Washington State vs. Minnesota)
    2017: not available/1.6 million (Washington State vs. Michigan State)
    2018: 0.9 rating/1.8 million (Utah vs. Northwestern)

    Redbox Bowl

    2016: 1.6 rating/2.6 million (Utah vs. Indiana)
    2017: 1.7 rating/2.8 million (Arizona vs. Purdue)
    2018: 2.3 rating/3.8 million (Oregon vs. Michigan State)

    Sun Bowl

    2016: 1.9 rating/2.9 million (Stanford vs. North Carolina)
    2017: 1.5 rating/2.2 million (Arizona State vs. N.C. State)
    2018: 1.8 rating/2.6 million (Stanford vs. Pittsburgh)

    Las Vegas Bowl

    2016: no Pac-12 participant
    2017: 2.3 rating/3.8 million (Oregon vs. Boise State)
    2018: 2.25 rating/3.3 million (Arizona State vs. Fresno State)

    Cheez-It Bowl

    2016: no Pac-12 participant
    2017: not available/3.3 million (UCLA vs. Kansas State)
    2018: 1.6 rating/2.7 million (Cal vs. TCU)

    Peach Bowl/CFP

    2016: 10.7 rating/19.3 million (Washington vs. Alabama)

    Cotton Bowl/NY6
    2017: 5.3 rating/9.5 million (USC vs. Ohio State)

    Fiesta Bowl/NY6

    2017: 5.7 rating/10.2 million (Washington vs. Penn State)

    Heart of Dallas
    2017: not available/2.2 million (Utah vs. West Virginia)

    We'll have more on the Pac-12's postseason lineup as the discussions deepen and contracts are finalized over the winter and spring. — Jon Wilner

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dwight Schr-Ute View Post
    Announced today that Bryce Love tore his ACL in their bowl game. I still can’t believe Moss is coming back.


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    Didn't he miss their bowl game? I think the injury happened in their last regular-season game

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    From Jon Wilner’s Hotline:

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    Crow speaks, and we should listen
    (But context is required)


    Arizona State’s Michael Crow, one of the most influential presidents in the Pac-12 — and commissioner Larry Scott’s staunchest supporter within the CEO group — addressed a slew of hot-button issues in an interview with the Arizona Republic that was published Monday.

    Not surprisingly, Crow echoed many of the talking points Scott has hit in recent months and was optimistic about the Pac-12’s future: “By my standard, we’re on track, we’re doing well, we’re making progress and we’re positioning ourselves for greatness going forward."

    As you read Crow’s comments -- and everyone in the Hotline community should, whether you agree with Crow or not -- keep a few things in mind:
    1) Crow has a personal stake in the success of Scott’s leadership and the conference's strategies, since he was a key member of the group that hired Scott and signed off on Scott's compensation and the Pac-12 Networks' business model.

    To admit missteps -- to acknowledge the potential for anything other than "greatness" -- would be to call his own judgment into question.

    2) When addressing the revenue gap between the Pac-12 and other Power Five conferences, Crow noted:

    “Conference income is a tiny part of everybody’s income. It’s just a piece of everybody’s income.”

    That’s easy for him to say.

    Arizona State’s athletic department is heavily subsidized by central campus — to a greater extent than its conference peers — and therefore isn't nearly as reliant upon Pac-12 distributions as the other schools.

    Per the financial database compiled by USA Today, a whopping 22 percent of the Sun Devils’ athletic revenue in 2016-17 came from student fees and university support ($22 million in support and fees on $101 million in revenue).

    For Utah, that figure was 14.5 percent.
    For Colorado, it was 13 percent.
    For Arizona, it was 11 percent.
    For Oregon State, it was 9 percent.
    For Washington State, it was 8 percent.
    For Cal, it was 4.3 percent.
    (Oregon, UCLA and Washington were miniscule.)

    I cannot emphasize this point enough: Because of its massive enrollment (70,000+), sprawling system of online classes and Crow's underwriting model, the Sun Devils' economic challenges don't square with the realities faced by most of their public school peers.
    3) A few of Crow’s comments require context. For instance:

    • “What somebody will be writing about three years from now or four years will be, 'How did the Pac-12 get ahead of us?’”

    It’s actually six years until the Pac-12’s new media rights deal kicks in (2024-25), unless the conference renegotiates early, and six years is an eternity on the front lines.

    And before the next agreement takes hold, the Big Ten, already a full lap ahead of the Pac-12 on the revenue front, will have a mammoth new deal of its own; and the SEC, already a half-lap ahead, will have a colossal mega-jackpot of a new agreement with CBS. (More on that in the Media Landscape section below.)

    I’d argue that Crow is actually doing Scott and the conference a disservice by ratcheting up expectations.

    • On the topic of content control, Crow notes that the Pac-12 has retained 100 percent ownership of its network while other conferences have partners (the Big Ten with Fox; the SEC and ACC with ESPN):

    “Others have sold their networks to commercial entities and thereby have lost control of their networks and lost control of their scheduling and other things, and we have not.”

    Well, yes and no. The Pac-12 Networks set the schedule for the content on the national and regional networks. But when it comes to the most valuable content, the content that pays the bills for the Olympics sports — the premium football and men’s basketball games — the Pac-12 has zero control over the scheduling.

    In fact, it sold that control to Fox and ESPN for cold, hard cash, with Crow's approval.

    Bottom line: It’s good when the presidents and chancellors speak, whether their opinions are popular or not. But perspective is important.

    — Jon Wilner

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    The latest from Wilner.

    Thunderous news, from afar

    The most significant offseason development in Pac-12 football, one could argue, does not actually involve a Pac-12 player, coach or team.

    It’s not Justin Herbert returning to Oregon or Mel Tucker taking over in Boulder. It's not the players leaving early for the draft or the recruits arriving early for spring practice.

    Nope, the development that could have the greatest long-haul impact unfolded earlier this week, 2,500 miles away: Tosh Lupoi is leaving the Alabama coaching staff and heading to the NFL.

    The conference's top adversary on the recruiting trails — on the west coast recruiting trails — will no longer be wreaking havoc on the Pac-12 talent pipeline.

    Lupoi, a former assistant at Cal and Washington, has been convincing top prospects to leave the west coast and move to Tuscaloosa for several years, thereby reducing the quantity of elite talent in the conference.

    Consider his handiwork:

    Signed

    Class of 2016

    Jonah Williams: 5-star OT from Folsom

    Class of 2017

    Najee Harris: 5-star RB from Antioch
    Tua Tagovailoa: 5-star QB from Honolulu

    Class of 2018

    Cameron Lua: 4-star DE from Salt Lake City

    Tommy Brown: 4-star OT from Santa Ana

    Ale Kaho: 4-star ILB from Reno
    Recruiting

    Class of 2019

    Henry To’oto’o: 4-star OLB from Concord

    Class of 2020

    Kendall Milton: 5-star TB from Clovis

    Class of 2021

    J.T. Tuimoloau: 5-star DT from Sammamish

    According to 247sports, Lupoi was the No. 1 ranked recruiter in the country for the 2019 signing cycle, and he served as the Crimson Tide's lead man on eight of the nine players listed above (the exception: Jonah Williams, with whom Lupoi played a secondary role to Mario Cristobal)

    Lupoi wasn't exactly free of controversy during his employment in the Pac-12, but the end result is indisputable: He has been one of the most successful recruiters in the sport this decade.
    Make no mistake: Alabama will continue to recruit the west coast and should be respected, if not feared from Seattle to Honolulu to Phoenix and all points in between.

    (The Tide, as the Hotline explained recently, smells Pac-12 blood.)

    But Lupoi was a recruiting dynamo with deep west coast ties who was employed by a dynasty outside the footprint.

    The Pac-12 football product, in dire need of good news -- and desperate to keep its top talents at home -- got a load of it with Lupoi's departure.

    -- Jon Wilner.

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    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    I've recently read a number of posts on the topic of USC becoming an Independent in football ala ND. Any real likelihood of this?

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    I've recently read a number of posts on the topic of USC becoming an Independent in football ala ND. Any real likelihood of this?
    I would hope that the Pac-12 would not let them remain in the conference for all other sports besides football. If not, they would have to get a scheduling agreement with the big 10 or the Big 12 has Notre Dame has with the ACC. Otherwise they face the same problem as BYU, which is filling out a schedule every year. The good news might be that they can replace us is BYU's annual rival and we could go our own way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UTEopia View Post
    I've recently read a number of posts on the topic of USC becoming an Independent in football ala ND. Any real likelihood of this?
    Posts from who?

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    Pac-12 hires independent firm to review officiating

    https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...w-officiating/

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Wilner says there has been talk of a scheduling partnership between the Pac-12 and Big-12. That would be great. They've talked about crazy things like playing all OOC games against each other and playing a conference championship game against each other. Hopefully, this is an "aim high to hit the mark" kind of thing. Arranging 1-2 OOC games per season against the Big12 would be the kickstart towards smart scheduling that college football (and the P5 in particular) needs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sancho View Post
    Wilner says there has been talk of a scheduling partnership between the Pac-12 and Big-12. That would be great. They've talked about crazy things like playing all OOC games against each other and playing a conference championship game against each other. Hopefully, this is an "aim high to hit the mark" kind of thing. Arranging 1-2 OOC games per season against the Big12 would be the kickstart towards smart scheduling that college football (and the P5 in particular) needs.
    Agreed... I'd love to have 2 games scheduled against the Big12 every year.

    Here's what I would do.

    Football
    H-H vs Big 12 --- Remaining 6 games in the PAC12 I'd auction off. "Hey BYU you can pay for two November games (one home one away) and 3 home and 3 away basketball games for $3 million"

    Basketball
    3H-3A vs Big 12
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    A few years ago the league engaged in a conversation like this with the Big 10 that couldn't be worked out. I hope this one does. Even just a single game at home or on the road in both football and basketball would make a significant difference and generate even greater fan interest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Utebiquitous View Post
    A few years ago the league engaged in a conversation like this with the Big 10 that couldn't be worked out. I hope this one does. Even just a single game at home or on the road in both football and basketball would make a significant difference and generate even greater fan interest.

    one of the reasons was the USC and Stanford did not want to give up their game against ND, and didnt want to be in the position of scheduling 2 tough big 10 games, or basically 3 tough OOC games. Maybe an issue here, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by concerned View Post
    one of the reasons was the USC and Stanford did not want to give up their game against ND, and didnt want to be in the position of scheduling 2 tough big 10 games, or basically 3 tough OOC games. Maybe an issue here, too.
    I'm sure it will be, which is ridiculous. The USC/ND "rivalry" means nothing. It has does have history, though, which is more than the Stanford/ND "rivalry". It's so small minded to pass on something great to hold on to something so meh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sancho View Post
    I'm sure it will be, which is ridiculous. The USC/ND "rivalry" means nothing. It has does have history, though, which is more than the Stanford/ND "rivalry". It's so small minded to pass on something great to hold on to something so meh.
    Wikipedia says Stanford and Notre Dame have met just 33 times total. They are separated by thousands of miles. Surely, this is a series that can end without harming college football, the pac-12, or either of the schools involved.

    USC is the big one. Nobody really gets up for the USC/ND game. There's no geographical dimension to the rivalry. Losing that game would be a lot less tragic than losing CU/Nebraska, Pitt/PSU, or Texas/A&M. Unfortunately, though, USC has a lot of clout.

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    Perhaps football cannot be worked out because of the "rivalries" USC and Stanford have but I hope that doesn't prevent a basketball conversation. I would love a couple of Big 12 games every season - a home and an away for example. You would think it could create relationships that may bleed into football where some of the programs begin playing each other regularly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sancho View Post
    Wikipedia says Stanford and Notre Dame have met just 33 times total. They are separated by thousands of miles. Surely, this is a series that can end without harming college football, the pac-12, or either of the schools involved.

    USC is the big one. Nobody really gets up for the USC/ND game. There's no geographical dimension to the rivalry. Losing that game would be a lot less tragic than losing CU/Nebraska, Pitt/PSU, or Texas/A&M. Unfortunately, though, USC has a lot of clout.
    The conference should just move ahead with plans, and let Stanford and USC decide what is more important, the ND "rivalry", or an easier schedule. Or does a decision like this have to be unanimous?
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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisrenrut View Post
    The conference should just move ahead with plans, and let Stanford and USC decide what is more important, the ND "rivalry", or an easier schedule. Or does a decision like this have to be unanimous?
    I don't know, but it should be unanimous because it's clearly beneficial to the individual teams, the conference, and college football. USC, of course, can threaten to go independent, which is how Texas bullies the Big12 around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisrenrut View Post
    The conference should just move ahead with plans, and let Stanford and USC decide what is more important, the ND "rivalry", or an easier schedule. Or does a decision like this have to be unanimous?
    There's an easy solution to this USC/Stanford dilemma. Teams in the PAC 12 = 12. Teams in the BigXII = 10. Two PAC 12 teams have to sit this out to make the numbers work anyway, so....there you go. Someone give Larry Scott my routing number so he can send me my fee for solving that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Utebiquitous View Post
    Perhaps football cannot be worked out because of the "rivalries" USC and Stanford have but I hope that doesn't prevent a basketball conversation. I would love a couple of Big 12 games every season - a home and an away for example. You would think it could create relationships that may bleed into football where some of the programs begin playing each other regularly.
    I remember an ongoing series (multiple home and homes) that the Runnin' Utes had with Texas in the '90s. It was a pretty good deal. Texas brought an athletic, talented team who loved to play fast and was generally fun and exciting. But Tom Penders was a terrible coach and Majerus would repeatedly pants him in front of everybody. Although I do remember the one game in Austin where Utah got completely robbed when the refs allowed a Texas player to catch, pivot and shoot a game winner with two tenths of a second on the clock. (That was before it was uniformly recognized that you had to have at least three tenths to catch and shoot).

    Anyway, that was fun, let's get Texas again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UBlender View Post
    I remember an ongoing series (multiple home and homes) that the Runnin' Utes had with Texas in the '90s. It was a pretty good deal. Texas brought an athletic, talented team who loved to play fast and was generally fun and exciting. But Tom Penders was a terrible coach and Majerus would repeatedly pants him in front of everybody. Although I do remember the one game in Austin where Utah got completely robbed when the refs allowed a Texas player to catch, pivot and shoot a game winner with two tenths of a second on the clock. (That was before it was uniformly recognized that you had to have at least three tenths to catch and shoot).

    Anyway, that was fun, let's get Texas again.
    I remember a home and away with Texas under Rick Barnes too. Am I making that up?

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    I think you're right Sancho. To UBlender's memory - one of those games against Texas was the first time I saw Andre Miller throw a 3/4-court alleyoop to someone. I don't remember who I just remember he threw it. Awesome.

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