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  1. our geographic/population footprint is pretty small. Adding Montana isn’t going to help but the Cougs are the 2nd team in the 13th largest state with a 7.8M population. To put that in context, that is more people than Wyoming, Hawaii, Idaho and New Mexico combined. When it comes to negotiating TV deals they matter a lot.
  2. Fair points though I think the problem of inspiring fans is true for Cal and Stanford. Both schools are elite enough that the average fan has zero connection to them. For most of the conservative valley Cal is downright hated. Cal used to be on the premier radio stations up and down the valley. My dad at one time listened to them in Hanford. That just no longer is the case as Fresno has the top local radio station from Stockton to Bakersfield. Sacramento where I live is no man’s land for college football. High School football is bigger. Cal just has very little penetration here. Because the valley is really 49ers and High School their total addressable market is really just the 6M Bay Area. In Stanford’s case they are rich enough they can pretty much buy whatever they want. Cal is wealthy but not that wealthy. Neither school has an alumni base that into sports compared to USC or even UCLA.
  3. Stanford is very particular about with whom they share a conference. Texas Tech and K State is a lot like sharing with Fresno which Stanford will never do. That doesn’t even include problematic schools like BYU and Baylor. ACC has higher academic schools: Duke, Pitt, Georgia Tech, UNC, UVA, Notre Dame. All top tier institutions. if the big state school’s like FSU, UVA, UNC, all leave I could see the other elites forming a national Magnolia Conference: Duke, BC, Pitt, G-Tech, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Wake Forest, Army?, Tulane, Rice, SMU, Miami, Stanford, Cal, Air Force?, Navy?,
  4. They certainly didn’t get an into the BIG. I think they had an offer to the Big12 according to Sheerer.
  5. Good question. They may not be. They may not be alone either.
  6. I don’t get the extent that everyone discounts Stanford. At the end of the day Stanford will be somewhere. They have too much power and influence to not be and the Bay Area is too big of a market. I think Cal could be on some trouble but not Stanford.
  7. @RSF you can laugh but he was much more on top of realignment and what was happening than most of the national writers. Canzano and Wilner took multiple shots at him and he proved to be much more accurate about what was happening.
  8. Yeah well I got his point about Phoenix and don’t really think the gotcha game is productive.
  9. Jason Scheer reported the Big 12 wanted Stanford but not Cal.
  10. Except Stanford could have joined the Big-12 and chose not to.
  11. What makes you so sure the more academically prestigious schools of the ACC won’t take the stronger academic schools in the Big 12? My guess is Cal and Stanford are talking to Utah and the AZ schools now about forming a national academically prestigious conference as we speak.
  12. You are correct but I don’t think the difference invalidates the main point.
  13. Yeah I meant to type 14 but missed the 1 in front of the 4
  14. Because they want to do things in stages and Virginia, North Carolina and Florida State are all higher priority. As is ND depending on what they do. It also isn’t clear UA or ASU. One but not both will go. Arizona is the 14th largest state in the country with 7M people and tons of snow birds. Arizona State being named AAU is a big deal. Phoenix is the 7th largest Metro area. An Arizona school could fit in either
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