Gonzaga is in... what's next for Pac-12?

[@GreggRobinson-rb3xy]

These two work so well together that they and their content are far superior to any of the other pretenders.

[@robertperez4992]

Great video fair and balanced. I liked what you had say about the breakaway that the selfish P2 are trying to do and how that would disassociate millions of FB fans. I liked the fairness and reporting on the Pac12. Thank you #GoDogsGo

[@carlreed6186]

Selfish they lost ten members need to replace at least 6 of them. Cannot let the conference with by far the most national titles in all sports die.

[@RolandoAbalajon]

Go Gonzaga. Go Zagssssssssssssssssssssss

[@mikefredd3390]

Go Beavs! Zags!

[@ryansuter4424]

@@mikefredd3390 See what conferences do! I’m an Aztec fan cheering on the Beavs!

[@joeguerra8435]

I’m excited about what the PAC 12 pageantry, along with new rivalries, will look like starting 2026. What an amazing narrative this has been for the PAC 2. Great show today guys. Another good day to be in the PAC. Go Cougs!

[@DocSkirv]

Burgerville is a Vancouver Washington company.

[@JBB-Beavs]

Sacramento Kings just committed to sharing Golden 1 Center with Sac State for BB if they are admitted by PAC. A 6k + arena is what Sac State is missing and that will take many years. That arena is close to campus and a great venue to host the likes of Gonzaga, SDSU, pac 12 title games, etc. Let’s get that market (#20) and N Cal recruiting area locked in on the cheap. They are certainly as valuable or more to media partners as Fresno or Logan.

[@dominicschoenheit8093]

Theyll be a good team for the mountain west

[@paulmezzetta6905]

San Diego and Fresno did not want San Jose. Why would they want another Cal State University in the PAC??

[@JBB-Beavs]

@@paulmezzetta6905, fair point. Obviously each university has their own views and rationale. I think that the media partners see SJSU as the 8th (?) best entity in the Bay Area and they might not value them for more than a couple million. Sac State is the #2 athletic entity in the #20 market in the country. They might be worth 8(?) million to a network? It appears to be an untapped area. Plus FSU and SDSU are much farther along in talent and have SoCal secured. They get some extra reach into NoCal recruiting, can build new rivalries that they should dominate for a while, and of course, money. I think CA is big enough to allow for 3 universities in a conference. The MWC just had that and I don’t think SJSU was that much of a threat to FSU and SDSU.

[@ryansuter4424]

@@JBB-Beavs Sacramento looks good for now regarding media and later for the future!

[@jasonoliveira2008]

another great Pod! any thoughts of maybe a Pac 12 media deal that includes bringing back Stanford/Cal say next year or so?

[@donaldfarmer8421]

In 2027 the AAC exit fee goes down to 10 million. The Pac-12 should help one school to get in for 2026 and the rest can pay their own exit fees.

[@jeffm8423]

Memphis with more cash to offset exit fees

[@stucky8386]

We need the NVIDIA founder to chip into OSU sports too!

[@tcgcardssayer1566]

sac state, Memphis, unlv. I'm guessing one of these schools will be the next addition to the pac.

[@ryansuter4424]

Unless there is some fishy business going on no way Gloria signed a contract with UNLV that lets them leave with the 25 million dollars. Now leaving without the vast majority of that money maybe.

[@PDXBeach]

Kansas?

[@tahuyachris]

I have lived in Oregon for 23 years. But, I lived west of Seattle for 14 1/2 years beforehand. My favorite teams are: UW Huskies; Seattle Seahawks; Seattle Sonics; Seattle Kraken; Seattle Sounders; and Seattle Mariners. The rest of the Washington teams are next: Gonzaga, Wazzu, Seattle U, and E Washington. I hope the Washington teams succeed!!!!

[@carlreed6186]

Since I went to WWU I add the Vikings to that list and their rival Central Washington

[@tahuyachris]

@@carlreed6186 I like them at the lower levels!

[@carlreed6186]

@@tahuyachris I went to Idaho School of law I was surprised when they went to D1. I was also surprised when I went to Western Washington University. They are D2 but have 12000 students. The witch hunters their after years were successful in getting football dropped. I went to all the football and basketball games when I was there.

[@RobertWilcox-y5l]

This is really good news for us SDSU Aztecs. :)

[@umbluegray1]

What's wrong with the B10 and the SEC doing to everyone what the Power 4 did to everyone else?

[@adamcompean9385]

The Pac12 should look @ Creighton bluejays to join?

[@matthewbrueckner8374]

I don't see the SEC and BIG10 locking arms and playing on their own. I don't think there is more value in that. College sports is all about so many great programs, rivalries, big guy vs. Cinderella, etc. I don't really get excited about Arkansas vs. Kentucky or Rutgers vs. Minnesota. I think the SEC and BIG 10 need the ACC, BIG12 and PAC X.

[@ryansuter4424]

Greed and fear is why the 2023-2024 PAC 12 is no longer together. Around 30 million a team was not enough for the top 2-3 teams! The current PAC would be pleased with 30 million.

[@RavenThom]

lucky to get 10

[@dominicschoenheit8093]

The offer wasn't 30 mil, it was 20 million and "gamble on ourselves" or guarantee twice as much for the 2 B1G schools that left after socal schools decided a year prior If socal schools stayed wed be at maybe 40-45 mil, that hurt bad to lose them. And without them it was a paycut no matter how you spin it

[@sdonnan09]

Espn offered 30 mil. The old pac 12 wanted 50 mil and espn walked away. After the top schools left apple offered 20.

[@jaw1927]

The current PAC is not the original top 2-3 PAC teams.

[@carlreed6186]

They panicked when the LA schools left. If they added SD State, Boise State and Fresno State then the rest would have stayed

[@kamaka85]

UCONN , UMASS are football independents plus Hawaii could be football candidates plus St. Marys (basketball only) could give you a larger overall league with smaller more workable football and basketball schedules.

[@eyeknowzz]

UMass is joining the MAC in all sports. They become members on July 1, 2025.

[@eyeknowzz]

This was announced in February of 2024.

[@stevedonnie4077]

Regionality is a luxury that the PAC can’t afford. The old PAC couldn’t even afford it. I think they’ll happily grab 3-5 eastern schools if they can and I think they’d also look to get some eastern non-football schools like Wichita to help pad the travel and bolster basketball.

[@bulldogsbob]

They could have afforded but SC and the like were just too greedy for common sense.

[@stevedonnie4077]

@@bulldogsbob Sure but my point was moreso that after the LA schools left the PAC was completely undervalued as a regional conference and held more value to media partners in parts rather than as a whole. You can also look at the MW as an example of being terribly valued despite being a good regional conference.

[@cdbrown2007]

I'm all for the PAC but it's slim pickings. They really needed UNLV and Memphis.

[@ricodelavega4511]

i suspect they'll get memphis, then wait a year or two down the road for UNLV. I guarantee you unlv will try to squeeze all they can from the mwc till the mwc says get lost.

[@butchcassidy8965]

Reach out to Texas State. Get that 8th football member.

[@asav859]

They can do way better than that

[@butchcassidy8965]

@@asav859 Texas State is a good program.

[@carlreed6186]

Bid Sky Montana and Idaho last resort possibilities. Montana is decent in football and basketball. Idaho tried D! but when they lost their conference had to return to the Big Sky. The Kibbie Dome is smallish but Idaho has big donors

[@ryansuter4424]

I would not be surprised if Gloria and Teresa and maybe others have actually worked together to keep both these conferences going and flourishing.

[@bradymoon1889]

PAC FOOTBALL PAC BASKETBALL Washington St Washington St Boise St Boise St Oregon St Oregon St Utah St Gonzaga Colorado St Utah St Colorado St Fresno St San Diego St Fresno St San Diego St Wichita St / GCU N. Texas / UNLV N. Texas / UNLV Memphis Memphis Tulane Tulane FOOTBALL 10 Teams 8 Conference Games, play your *regional partners every year, with a conf champ game. BASKETBALL 12 Teams 18 Conference games. Play each team at least once (11), *their region twice (3) & play a 2nd game with 2 teams from the other 2 regions **(4). *Playing your region more often will help with travel and build rivalries. **These games will be based off the previos years record with the top 2 teams of each region playing each other and the bottom 2 teams playing each other. This reault in better TV rated games.

[@Lawomenshoops]

Is the AAC trying to replace SMU? Is that why Texas St turned down the MWC?

[@johnrasmussen-u8b]

Army replaced SMU for football.

[@Lawomenshoops]

The MWC can add a FCS school for their 8th full member! Why? MWC would have a two year grace period-2026 and 2007- to have 8 full members. So if they add 1 or 3 FCS schools- who have a two year transition period- the MWC would be compliant in 2028 because they will have at least 8 FBS members in 2028!

[@JBB-Beavs]

Get into TX recruiting for Football and grab Texas State. Lock in 8th all sports school now. Texas State is also a better performing BB program than USF, Tulane, and UTSA in past 4 years. Get Sac State. Good story, not settling. All conferences need a team that loses some games. #20 market, eager to grow, lots of money coming in, SAC is basketball city. In 5 years, is Sac State the next James Madison? But they want to get $ share per school high so 9 Football gives you 8 conf games. Add two more good BB non-football schools to stay at 12 and a find that nimble space for 2031 when the next major shift will happen - if not before with ACC. But I am just a fan and am not in those big meetings.

[@JohnSmith-nf5gk]

Genuinely a 13-0 G6 getting into the playoff over a 9-3 SEC or Big 10 team would be absolutely disgraceful. Teams outside the P4 don’t belong on the field with those teams

[@Coug4Life]

Wilner says there was “so much focus” on getting the three AAC universities and that they were turned down. Wasn’t it a low ball and and wasn’t it just an initial gauging the level of interest. I’ve also heard that Memphis has now come back saying the same thing and they reacted to the initial offer but they have since come back and leaving the door cracked open? And now Wilner talking up Yormark and the PAC following what he is attempting to do in terms of basketball. Didn’t the PAC hire Navigate and not Yormark? I’m sorry but Wilner is antiPAC tool.

[@ryansuter4424]

If BIG 10 and SEC want to limit the CFP even further to only their teams then I hope that they start loosing viewership! As an Aztec fan I won’t watch those teams as much or at all. They must be counting on online betting fans are more important than actual sports and university fans. If that’s what they want for college sports than I’m out.

[@Joe-m2d]

Antitrust issues definitely in play.

[@tomsettles6873]

St. Marys, Santa Clara , New Mexico and UNLV need to brought into the PAC 12 immediately. That shores up the basketball and football with best available teams in the western u.s. There really isn't any other "good" football or b-ball schools available in the western half right now.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

The Pac 12 would be foolish to stop at 8 or 9 teams for football, it would make them the smallest conference by far and constantly keep them on the precipice of doom if they got raided by the Big 12 or someone else. All the football conferences are in the teens as far as numbers, some as high as 17 or more? (except for the MWC that just got raided). The Pac 12 needs to go out and do what it has to in order to get every decent football or basketball team it can, while it can before they get snatched up by the Big 12 or ACC or AAC. They have to get to 8 football teams by 2026 but if they wait until 2027 they can get those AAC schools at a far lower exit fee if they give 27 months or more warning, that solves much of the problem the Memphis AD cited. Wilner is positive and has ambition for the Pac 12 to be something special while John seems content to do the bare minimum.

[@commodorezero]

The reason for having less teams is they split the media money less ways. Thats the main reason they did not merge with the MWC. The big conferences have all their teams or almost all of them adding to the evaluation. Memphis is really the only AAC school they should nab IMO maybe take St Marys for non football. Then they wait for UNLV, Stanford and Cal to get out of their committments as the years go by.

[@bradymoon1889]

I think getting to ten teams is a must so they can have a conference championship game. I like making Memphis the farthest East team by adding 2 texas teams. I prefer UTSA and N. TEXAS but would not mind Texas St. I also like adding GCU with Gonzaga for a 12 team BB league.

[@commodorezero]

@@bradymoon1889 Conference title games are not essential and for a G5 conference lower the best teams odds of getting into the playoff. Lets be real conference title games are there to print money. If the P12 all play each other the best 2 teams playing again is only going to hurt the best teams chances cause they might lose. Also whats up wth people thinking Grand Canyons a better non football option than Saint Marys?? Grand Canyon just got promoted from D2. I'm not the biggest College basketball person maybe they are just that good the last few years but I don't get it. They told schools like Nevada and San Jose State they weren't good enough but Grand Canyon is?

[@bradymoon1889]

@@commodorezero Nevada and San Jose St would take football money, while GCU does not. Geographicly/Regionally GCU is perfect being smack in the middle with a large airport....GCU is also really solid in the "other" sports. Saint Marys is a college and its gym only holds 3,500 while GCU arena holds 7,000 You make a great argument for a 9 team FB league. Play the other 8 conference members, and and can improve their records without beating each other up in there 4 non conference games. Although it will be harder to get these Bigger conferences to schedule the PAC when they are already in super conferences. I still like a 12 team BB league so i wouldnt be opposed to GCU with Gonzaga and either Wichita St or Saint Marys as Non football schools.

[@lukefletcher4689]

Gloria Nevarez is kicking butt!

[@joeldrewwaldengrounds6931]

The PAC 12 should ad Sac st ,Cal Poly, UC Davis, Portland St , San Diego and Eastern Wash

[@auiysdsu]

😂

[@andrewwhipple7162]

Are you nuts?

[@johnrasmussen-u8b]

Dumbest idea I've ever heard. For one, they're all FCS schools. Secondly, Portland State and EWU can barely afford to run their athletic programs.

[@RichardByrd-u2y]

If your going that route. Then better to add The Montana's, and North and South Dakota sts. And a Texas school. That is better than most of what got left behind in MWC

[@chsmithins]

Did you mean the MWC, not the Pac12?

[@asav859]

This is what I’m hoping for and what PAC should be aiming for and yes I know lofty and a lot of money and maybe some dreaming 😅. *Oregon State *Gonzaga *Washington State *St.Marys *Boise State Grand Canyon *San Diego State Wichita State Fresno State *Colorado State *Utah State Memphis Tulane UNLV UConn Notre Dame

[@SD_BRFC1997]

Notre Dame won’t join a conference and I say that as an fighting irish fan They might however agree a deal to schedule regular games against PAC teams

[@asav859]

⁠@@SD_BRFC1997… I agree and that would be nice to have them play games in PAC.

[@SD_BRFC1997]

@@asav859 said on another video my guess is they’ll add four more schools after this TV stuff is worked out (they’re gonna learn what networks are gonna offer currently or if they have more teams) My guess is they add four more Memphis Sacramento State Tulane UNLV