FresnoFacts

Canzano's article is open reading not paywalled. https://www.johncanzano.com/p/canzano-truth-behind-the-pac-12s

Instead of a 13th game, some teams used it to play in week 0 to get two bye weeks during the season.

So the Big 12 used what was basically a little piece of candy to help lure Colorado. "Meanwhile, the Big 12 paid Colorado a $2.5 million signing bonus in late July as it began a new round of expansion, a document obtained from Colorado under an open-records request shows." Long article from open records requests about the deals behind some of the moves for schools including Texas/Oklahoma/Colorado/etc. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2023/09/22/texas-oklahoma-big-12-sec-espn-role-realignment/70910157007/

It is the collectives that are probably looking over their shoulders at Title IX. If collectives and schools get too cozy or close (such as the collective being connected to a University run foundation or organization) that might move into a Title IX gray area. Individual NIL deals are of course not the same.

California colleges sure seem to dominate those team national championships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Scholastic_Surfing_Association#College_Team_Champions Saddleback, MiraCosta, and Orange Coast are all California community/junior colleges. Florida universities don't stand a chance against them in surfing.

GK has great timing to be in Montana when big events hit the PAC. 6/30/22 was when USC/UCLA announced they were leaving.

The PAC-12 bylaws I linked above say about dissolution in Chapter 1 section: In the event of the dissolution or final liquidation of the Conference, all of the remaining assets and property of the Conference shall, after paying or making provision for the payment of all of the liabilities and obligations of the Conference and for necessary expenses thereof, be distributed to the members of the Conference so long as they are then qualified as a tax-exempt organization under Code Section 501(c)(3), or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under Code Section 501(c)(3) as the Pac-12 Board of Directors shall determine. In no event shall any of the assets or property be distributed to any director or officer, or any private individual. (6/10) But at this point the question they are arguing over is who still has voting rights as a member of the board to determine the future of the conference.

The PAC-12 bylaws also refer to the conference as a 501c3. See pages 6 and 7 at the link. https://pac-12compliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-24-Pac-12-Handbook.V1.pdf

I'd add they also would draw interest around Fresno. It does not have as many personnel as San Diego and Hawaii, but NAS Lemoore about 40 miles south of Fresno is still home to almost 8.000 Navy personnel. On top of that in the area are some 11,000 dependents, another estimated 13000-14,000 retirees, etc.

Now some of the AAC fans are consoling themselves that their conference is still better than the MWC because they have a contract with ESPN and the MWC doesn't. That board is looking for anything to build up their egos.

The AAC board is in shock that they are not adding OSU/WSU. They can't believe those schools will end up in some combination of the PAC-2/MWC. They are now talking about needing to expand with Army and VCU.

That is what I said when Aresco made the "kicking the tires" comment the other day.

Is OS_Beav in meltdown on twitter or making new graphics? Is MHver3 spinning that he called all of it?

Sounds like Aresco is trying to get out in front of the coming AAC embarrassment when WSU/OSU don't merge with them. Aresco in two months "yeah we took a look but WSU/OSU were just not teams we wanted".