The Pac-12 is Making Things Worse

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After seemingly years of being nothing more than a carcass being picked over by greedy vultures, the Pac-12 conference finally added schools, poaching four programs from the Mountain West in an unhanded manner.
That is what makes all the movement and speculation out here in college football’s last frontier so confusing, perhaps even disheartening. It just feels like we are repeating the same mistakes of the past.
As schools from Sacramento State to Memphis now participate in a Rat Race style competition for a mythical invite to the new Pac-12, you have to ask yourself, is this any better than what those other schools did to Wazzu and OSU in the first place? And will the living members of Smashmouth reunite for a concert when those final bids are handed out?
I’m not saying the Pac-12 shouldn’t have added those Mountain West schools, but it was seemingly done in a very dubious way that has now left the MWC scrambling itself. Not that it is all that surprising. Schools have constantly done some really shady things as it relates to conferences in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.
Are you telling me that the two conferences couldn’t have worked together to formulate a strategy that put both on solid footing? Certainly, the Conference of Champions could have gone about this in a way that would have made sure the region had stability so nothing like what happened to the Pac-12 collapsing, and before that, the WAC and Big West would happen to the Mountain West.
Despite wild speculation, the end game here looks decidedly clear and not all that exciting. As mentioned earlier, the Pac-12 will most likely pick up four schools from far-flung parts of America. The Mountain West will backfill their losses with some old WAC programs. UTEP, New Mexico State, Rice, and, possibly, Louisiana Tech are super obvious.
Interestingly, there have been rumblings about Sacramento State and UC Davis eyeing a move up. Everyone talks about Montana, Montana State, North Dakota, and North Dakota State going up as well. That seems unlikely.
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