[James Dean]

Being a fan of West Coast football, I am glad to see the PAC continuing on. However, I don't think Stanford would have any interest in rejoining it should the ACC implode. And I don't think there is any way that UO, UW, UCLA, and that other school down south that should not be named will ever return to the PAC. Those are the schools that Stanford should be playing, and in any further disruption, Stanford will look/lobby hard for inclusion in the BIG.

I can't follow this discussion.

Not counting football (and, yes, I know - lots of people think that's all that counts) the ACC is the strongest conference in the country.  It won more Olympic medals by far, for example.

Academically it is the best conference (again, I recognize that many view this as irrelevant.)

The reason some want us in the BiG is for the TV money.  But we have more money than anyone.  We ought not to prostitute ourselves.  

Yet the big flaw in this reasoning is the assumption that the BiG would be foolish enough to pay us tens of millions more for our TV rights than they are worth.  Not gonna happen.

[James Dean]

Being a fan of West Coast football, I am glad to see the PAC continuing on. However, I don't think Stanford would have any interest in rejoining it should the ACC implode. And I don't think there is any way that UO, UW, UCLA, and that other school down south that should not be named will ever return to the PAC. Those are the schools that Stanford should be playing, and in any further disruption, Stanford will look/lobby hard for inclusion in the BIG.

I can't follow this discussion.

Not counting football (and, yes, I know - lots of people think that's all that counts) the ACC is the strongest conference in the country.  It won more Olympic medals by far, for example.

Academically it is the best conference (again, I recognize that many view this as irrelevant.)

The reason some want us in the BiG is for the TV money.  But we have more money than anyone.  We ought not to prostitute ourselves.  

Yet the big flaw in this reasoning is the assumption that the BiG would be foolish enough to pay us tens of millions more for our TV rights than they are worth.  Not gonna happen.