Conference Realignment

Navy_illini said:

You’ll never guess where George Kliavkoff was during Oregon State-Washington State Pac-12 legal hearing

Washington State and Oregon State want control of #Pac12 assets. George Kliavkoff was in an unexpected place. The judge shared the information.

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I didn’t know what those two universities were wanting. But it turns out one of the issues is the leaving schools want to use PAC 12 funds to pay for their transition to their new conference. The board of directors are probably spilt between schools so the remains 2 schools basically have no say. What I heard is the MWC and remaining 2 PAC 12 schools could merge but retain the Pac 12 name.

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Ore St, and Wazzu wanted to keep the 'departing schools' from calling a meeting of the conference, and voting on an agenda of items... The PAC12 conference rules state that if a team leaves the conference, they don't get a vote in any conference meeting, and OSU and WSU argued that since those teams have 'announced their intentions to leave' the conference they should NOT have a voice in any future conference meetings... Like a meeting to decide who gets what remaining money there is left in their treasury....

Navy_illini said:

You’ll never guess where George Kliavkoff was during Oregon State-Washington State Pac-12 legal hearing

Washington State and Oregon State want control of #Pac12 assets. George Kliavkoff was in an unexpected place. The judge shared the information.

www.yahoo.com

I didn’t know what those two universities were wanting. But it turns out one of the issues is the leaving schools want to use PAC 12 funds to pay for their transition to their new conference. The board of directors are probably spilt between schools so the remains 2 schools basically have no say. What I heard is the MWC and remaining 2 PAC 12 schools could merge but retain the Pac 12 name.

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This is FAR, FAR from being decided...

With the new conference landscape of College Athletics... two things are now abundantly clear.

First, the Illini are fortunate to be a legacy member of one the remaining ‘Elite’ conferences.

And second, with the additions of the four West Coast power schools, the Illini are going to have to up their athletic-departments game in general and talent level in particular to compete at a high level going forward.

The footballers already had the likes of THE (whatevers), and Michigan and Penn State to contend with. Now the Illini get four more football powers to match up to.

And the roundballers... ditto. The Illini now have to deal with two huge legacy West Coast powers along with additional programs that are at a high level.

Yes, big conference money and exposure is great. But so is winning and rewarding your loyal fan base and competing for championships. And that requires everything in the Illini programs to elevate themselves further from today.

The Nebraska football program is a shining example of not staying ahead of the curve while everyone else passes you by. And it’s now going to be a long hard climb up for the Huskers to get back anywhere near to what they used to be. The Illini can’t let that happen to them.