Pac-12 Conference Stress level.

Get real and put a fork in the PAC.....it's done. ..thanks almost exclusively to stupid, stupid and overpaid administrators.

We would have done better with Mortimer Snerd as PAC commissioner this past decade. 

I'm with you. I'll be in the minority here, but I'd rather move toward a MWC type existence than as a super conference member. Just more fun, better chance for programs to excel and add as tough as NC as they choose. The media $ might cause some ripples, but we'd have to actually see.

I've been in favor of a D1-A
and D1-B type setup. Let the big time NIL and budgets fight it out. I'm all for being in the fight for biggest fish in smaller pond.

Yeah that rebranding of Twitter to X is way above this. ;-)

This is probly where we are headed long term, no matter what we want.  OSU has never really made the right moves to hang with the big boys.  It all started with Dee Andros and Fred Milton.  That landed us in football purgatory......we were passed by, and never recovered. 

OSU also passed on Rich Brooks and hired Craig Fertig instead.....Brooks is widely credited with turning Oregon's football program around.  Fertig went 10-34-1  in four seasons at the helm at OSU.

I hope there is some way we can stay in a P5 and hold onto Smith.  We need the TV money to be competitive in keeping him around. Our football program is on the precipice of greatness.....we have the coach....we have the stadium.....we have the recruiting......like I said above somewhere, it would so Beaver-like to be in this position, and have it all come crashing down.  If we end up in the MWC our recruiting will automatically take a pretty big down tick

Some people have complained that the league's current deal doesn't pay enough and makes it tough to compete. Some people think it'd be ok to drop down a level, but if we go to a MWC situation we should probably expect a MWC type media deal... their deal is only a couple years old and they are "raking in" 4 million dollars a school annually.

The PAC 12 presidents turned down an ESPN offer of 24.5 million a school for just a couple tier 1 games a week last fall. The league will get money, it might not be the 30M+ they were hoping for, but it should be fairly substantial.

I'm not sure that dropping to a MWC type of situation will fly. Then again, I'm not so sure things are so desperate that the league is dead either. The league will look different, maybe much different, going forward. I'm still hoping for 14 teams, at least 12, and it should be competitive with other leagues.

When USC and UCLA move and find their teams in the middle of the Big 10 standings there's probably going to be some regret in Southern California. The Ducks and Huskies could very well have the exact same issue if they get what they hope for.

Becoming one of the top programs in the newly organized Pac Whatever isn't going to hurt my feelings.

I wish college football would just take a EFL style with relegation and promotion.