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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4704516, member: 1145"]
Pac people always have been very arrogant. That includes the leadership and not just causal fans. So the Pac has always thought itself too good to think in terms of expanding way from the far west. They would have taken Big 12 teams, but only if Texas led the charge. By the 1990s, it should have been clear that what the Pac needed most were CST games for conference play and many more EST games in OOC play. Only then could Pac TV numbers grow. The Pac refused top see even as their TV numbers in both revenue sports kept dropping.

Today, that means that Pac is as dead man walking as you say wit only 1 basic way out: the ACC. If the Pac could secure a deal with the ACC to play multiple IOOC games in both revenue sport each year, that might save the league for more than a few years, The only way I see a 'merger' is if the Pac reduced its members for that merger to no more than 7: Washington, Oregon, Cal, Stanford, Utah, Arizona St, and Arizona. And I think the Pac remains far too arrogant to make that move.

Of course, I also see the ACC as far too arrogant to drop the total dead weight of Wake and BC and to force everybody to play as tough an OOC slate as possible every year.

Pride goeth before the fall.
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