The aforementioned agreement has also caused a home and home series, between Georgia and Ohio State, in 2020 2021 to be pushed by the wayside.
It just didn't work out. I do get a chuckle out of the whiny 'it didn't work out because of the Pac12' tone of the article. I mean, does anyone else NOT see the ******** here? but in the paragraph before that was this: The bottom line is that teams like Stanford and USC have games with Notre Dame. Other teams have their annual games with their instate rivals. (as mentioned BYU-Utah) The Pac12 plays 9 conference games but the BigConferenceThatCantCount plays 8. I see one being asked to concede and the other not at all. I don't really blame the BigNumber, this just didn't work out. I just don't care much for Delany. I can't prove this, but he sure does seem to run to the media crying his little heart out far too often when things don't go his way the first time. If he were your sibling, he'd be that sibling who'd get his ass kicked every moment mom and dad aren't looking. What I find truly funny is this.. As a Pac12 guy, for years and years and years we played these incredible non-conference schedules (I documented them all over and over as you remember), AND we played a full blown, round-robin schedule in which every conference member played each other. You knew exactly what would happen if team X and team Y were to meet because they actually played on the field. We were told that wasn't good enough. We were told that the 'rigorous demands of the super conference format' is something that can't be topped...it was the mere existence of a 'conference title game' that made it the top of the scheduling food chain. Adding games (on the road and home) against top flight teams OOC was not the same and the the whole 'prove it on the field' thing was out dated.. an over-hyped super conference championship game was what we needed. So we did EXACTLY what the SEC and everyone else told us to do (even though not everyone has a title game) and by that I mean, exactly... we maintained all of the traditional rivalries that could be saved but we play 9 conference games and have a conference title game... which means one of those blockbuster OOC games we use to schedule went away. No one had a problem with it before... but now it's our fault? This is all ********, play the games on the field or play them in the polls.. anything else in between is just some Discovery Channel show about child pageant queens and their monster mommies... but you'll continue to watch...
Well you do know that outside the West Coast and esp in B12 and SEC country the Pac10/12 was considered a pussy conference who didn't play any defense. So playing a true round robin was met with the same disdain as if you were the WAC.
except, as I documented.. we kept beating you...with offense, defense, you name it.. and we were told that didn't matter...
I understand, but that was and is the default position. Now in the B12 right now there is a lot of respect for the PAC12 due to USC and Stanford and Oregon. Nobody calls them pussies who don't play defense anymore....but don't ask Les Miles!
I wouldn't ask Les Miles to do anything except drool on his shirt and be one of those 'win at all cost' coaches who karma will catch up to in time. and btw, I see what you're saying and that's my point exactly. The PERCEPTION (driven by media hype) is one thing, the reality was another. Now they have exactly what they've asked for over the years, and they are still whining. On a unrelated note, I wish Arizona football would get back to where they were in the Bear Down defense (those things we didn't have back then) days. They still give people fits, but they should be better than they are.