Lets explore four paths forward for conference realignment out west including one grim scenario in which the Pac-12 stops existing entirely. Hoover. Sports Reputation, Footprint, Commitment Are Attractive By Slurms Mac Court Aug 6, 2022, 9:00am PDT Share Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty. Stony Brook was already an affiliate member for football and is now a full member. The CAA grew from 10 full members to 13 on July 1, 2022. The Big Ten isnt a realistic landing spot for the Beavers, though, and the Big 12 isnt going to take them alone. Joining: Campbell, Hampton, Monmouth, North Carolina A&T, Stony Brook. Campbell will also leave in 2023. John Canzano first reported that the Pac-12 is discussing the formation of a loose partnership with an existing power conference, and CBSs Dennis Dodd added that the ACC is the partnering league in question. . Oregon State is disadvantaged in that it possesses no negotiating leverage over conferences more prosperous than the Pac-12. While Marcello has predicted that the Pac-12's next deal will outpace the one the Big 12 signed in October, he doesn't anticipate that will hold up over the next decade or so. News is added periodically throughout the day, so check back regularly. Eventually. The OVC will team up with the Big South in a new football agreement. Texas, Texas Tech, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State and two other schools will make up the new Pac-16 South. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Should Big 12 leader Brett Yormark try to raid Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Washington from the Pac-12? In the last decade in particular, Oregons football program has become one of the better known in the country and is frequently mentioned by quality high school players as their dream school. The Ducks have played for the National Championship twice in recent years. Putting the Pac/ACC agreement in writing, and potentially even getting a media company to sign off on it as well, would ensure that Oregon State gets a cut - just like everyone else involved - of the revenue generated from a pseudo mega conference. Oregon should join another conference should the opportunity present itself, 247Sports national college football writer Brandon Marcello said on Monday's episode of the Autzen Audibles podcast. The ideal conference - according to me - is comprised of the following: 1) 10 teams whose physical locations make geographical sense in relation to one another (i.e. Based on new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark's comments at Big 12 media days, it seems like the conference is in a good spot and likely acting as an aggressor in realignment discussions. 1 hour ago. The Beavers will host the Trojans at Reser Stadium on September 24th, less than three months from now, in what is likely to be the final meeting between the squads in Corvallis for the foreseeable future. * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). Perhaps this is the point at which the Pac-12 would finally fold and invite Gonzaga for non-football sports. Leaving: Chicago State, Lamar, New Mexico State, Sam Houston. Neither the SEC or the Big 10 seem intent on adding schools. A conference collapse would appear in the form of its most valuable assets leaving for a super league - Oregon and Washington to the Big Ten and the Arizona schools to the Big 12, for example. In order for the Pac-12 to continue to exist as a viable conference (forget about a power conference until further notice), it would have to invite at least six members. https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/2022/07/02/oregon-state-washington-state-know-theyre-at-the-back-of-the-line-waiting-for-others/, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Austin Peay joined July 1, 2022 as the ASUN fields an FCS football conference for the first time. 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For Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes, interim president Becky Johnson, and incoming president Jayathi Murthy, the work ahead of them is monumental - and it will determine the future of the university. Incarnate Word had announced its intention to leave the Southland for the WAC, but chose instead to remain in the Southland. BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston will join the Big 12 in 2023, meaning that unless something changes and Oklahoma and Texas leave early the Big 12 will have 14 teams for two years before going back down to 12 in 2025. The Big Ten informed the latter two that they would not be considered for inclusion until the conference received a decision from Notre Dame - its top target. Oregon and. Little Rock and UT-Arlington, the conferences two non-football playing members, departed for conferences that are less football-centric. They have to wait and hope. Current MWC members bring in about $4 million annually from the conferences media rights agreement; thats enough to cover head football coach Jonathan Smiths contract, but nothing else. This couldnt have come at a worse time for the Beavers. The OVC lost two members to the ASUN last year, dropping from 12 full members to 10. With USC and UCLA moving to the Big Ten, several other Pac-12 schools are reportedly now in talks with the Big 12. The league held at 10 on July 1, 2022 as three departures were offset by Little Rock joining from the Sun Belt and Southern Indiana and Lindenwood moving up from Division II. No one's worried about you being good enough or not. It would be the death of the athletic department as we know it. As CBS Sports Matt Norlander noted on his Eye On College Basketball podcast, if UCLA and USC wanted any Pac-12 institutions to join them in the Big Ten, those schools would have come along with them here and now. Come 2023, the conference will have 11 full members, 5 of which are football-playing members. It's also being reported that Oregon and Washington are trying to get out. Assuming no one else gets picked off along the way, heres what this merged league would look like: Thats a 22-team conference that spans all four timezones of the continental United States, mixes public and private institutions, includes football- and basketball-first schools and has delivered zero college football national championships since 1991. No Pac-12 schools were dealt a bigger or crueler blow with the USC-UCLA move to the Big Ten than Oregon State and Washington State. Whichever network offers the Pac-12 the most money will encourage the addition of, say, two to four more schools. America East will drop from 10 full members to 8 in the next couple years. If Oregon and Washington do leave for the Big Ten, the Pac-12s survival probably depends on whether Stanford and California stay or go. As for the other schools, its not likely the SEC will come calling. Clemson to the SEC sounds like an obvious move. Bryants football team joined the Big South as an affiliate member. In case you werent aware already, its the TV (technically TV and streaming) giants that really drives conference realignment decisions, and college football realignment in particular will always be king as far as broadcast dollars are concerned. Its football program hasn't competed at the national level in a. ThomasSan DiegoStetsonValparaiso. Read the full story Assessing Oregon State's Position in the Conference Realignment Landscape The Pac-12 has started renegotiating its next television and streaming rights deal. Theyre helpless and utterly dependent on other schools and other events. Missouri Valley Football Conference (12 members)Illinois StateIndiana StateMissouri StateMurray StateNorth DakotaNorth Dakota StateNorthern IowaSouth DakotaSouth Dakota StateSouthern IllinoisWestern IllinoisYoungstown State, Pioneer Football League (11 members)ButlerDavidsonDaytonDrakeMaristMorehead StatePresbyterianSt. Libertys football program already plays at the FBS level as an independent. Joining: Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Liberty, New Mexico State, Sam Houston, Leaving: Charlotte, FAU, Marshall, North Texas, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB, UTEP. Aidin covers the NBA Western Conference for SuperWest Sports. Jul 6, 2022, 7:35am PST SHARE SHARE How the latest conference realignment could affect the Big 12 and BYU Flipboard BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe speaks at a press conference announcing that BYU has accepted an invitation to the Big 12 Conference at BYU in Provo on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. It may not be the prime course of action in the eyes of individual conference leadership, which would be forced to relinquish influence in favor of a combined committee, but they risk relegation to second-tier status as standalone leagues in the shadows of the SEC and Big Ten. ESPN played a major role in breaking up the Big East, noted on his Eye On College Basketball podcast. https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/2022/07/07/the-extra-cruel-reality-facing-oregon-state-right-now/, Oklahoma fans said 'We told you!' Bryant left for America East and Mount St. Marys left for the MAAC on July 1, 2022, while Stonehill College moved up from Division II to join the conference. The Pac-12. Boasting media markets such as Dallas-Fort Worth, Seattle, the Bay Area, Houston, and Salt Lake City, among many others, the conferences visibility would be sure to draw hefty bids from college football behemoths ESPN and Fox - not to mention a third player in CBS, which will be searching for a new headliner in 2024 after its SEC partnership comes to an end. Before the 2021 season, Texas and Oklahoma announced plans to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC. Or maybe its all of those possibilities! "There is another report out there that the Big Ten is also looking at Florida State and Miami, and at that point would be a monopoly of . Where the loose partnership risks ineffectiveness is in the absence of a signed contract. The Ducks have won 34 NCAA Championships. 2021 Record: 7-6 (5-4 Pac-12) Head Coach: Jonathan Smith (fifth year, 16-28 overall). This was his response about the Beavers situation: Don Smalley: OSU is now a mid-major equal to Boise State. Thus, a merger between the remaining Pac-12 and new-look Big 12 has to be the supreme option for Oregon State. UT-Rio Grande Valley, already a full member, plans to start a football team by 2024. Many different scenarios have emergedeverything from the PAC-12 adding teams to merging with another conference to being completely gutted and folding altogether. The B16 goes to a 10 game conference schedule. At full capacity Autzen Stadium would rank as the 8th largest in the Big 10 and about the 3rd largest in the Big 12. These last may actually be reasons why a suitor might not want Oregon in their Conference. Perhaps the Pac-10/12 and Big 12 monikers could live on as two division titles. The SEC and Big Ten are in a race. We talk about getting the six highest conference champions now, maybe at some point the AAC and the Pac-12 are so much weaker than we thought, that they might change it to the four highest or the five highest who knows," Marcello said. Meanwhile, three teams will abandon the Independent rank to join . The Beavers will not leave for the Mountain West unless the Pac-12 folds entirely, which may seem far-fetched, but without the estimated $200 million lift from possessing the Los Angeles market, sustainability becomes a challenge. Thats right: The Big 12 could poach from the Pac-12 OR the Pac-12 could post from the Big 12. With the Southern California schools gone, the conference can only bring so much to the negotiation table. Joining: Belmont, Illinois Chicago, Murray State, The MVC grew from 10 full members to 12 on July 1, 2022. In this scenario, Oregon State could see out the momentum its athletic department has created without changing contexts. The upside of this new super conference, dubbed widely by those projecting its existence as the BigPac, is tremendous. There (). 2 Stanford, Oklahoma fans revel in Cotton Bowl failure of Lincoln Riley and Alex Grinch, USC women's basketball moves into projected NCAA Tournament field after huge win over Stanford, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. If you dont like chaos (and shame on you, if thats the case!) If the Big Ten adds Notre Dame and Stanford and then stops there, Cal could be in some trouble; the Golden Bears would join Washington State and Oregon State among the west coast schools left behind. If the objective is simply to find solid football programs that would jump at the opportunity to upgrade, however, maybe its time to look long and hard at Boise State and San Diego State that latter of which also has the advantage of being in a top-30 US media market. By Kevin Kelley - November 5, 2021. Oregon has also shown an admirable commitment to its academic facilities including renovation and expansion of the Library, construction of a School of Business, a new Science complex and an academic center for athletes, among others over the same period. July 1, 2022 6:27 am PT. Find it at our Team News Feed. In a vacuum, the Big 12 would much rather add the Arizona schools or Mountain schools due to geography and brand value. Oregon State would continue to reap the financial benefits of power conference membership, which would measure much larger in a partnership than it would if the Pac went about its business alone. Moreover, CU used to be in the Big 12, anyway. But, the reason for that is because I think it will be mostly streaming, most likely Amazon, and theyll be willing to pay more to get that type of inventory and to stake a claim into the college athletics realm that no one else has in the streaming wars right now. 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