[Farm93]

UofA has never won the Pac-##.  My guess is that their community would travel anywhere to support a team, that was just one win away from winning it all.  The Northwest schools live for rain and likely would be delighted to show the Pac-12 South representative how support in the rain is done.  The California schools are the ones with the worst bad weather reputation, but for those four schools proximity and easy logistics of a California venue can mitigate the weather and apathy issues.

If one looks at the conference the best venue is probably a new LA/OC Jaguars' stadium, but until then Levi is a very good choice.  The conference was losing ground in football and non-revenue sports to the SEC money and the Pac-## powers felt the conference needed a set of TV deals and $$ to compete.  Once on that path Friday was put in the realm just like all of those 7PM kick-offs.

I think the conference needs some stability and predictability from its TV partners.  The Pac-12 needs to own Las Vegas for hoops and some venue, city & day for the football Pac-12 CG.  Of all of the possible locations of the Pac-12 CG Levi is far and away the best for Stanford, so I don't think Stanford fans should be complaining too much given the realistic range of options (Seattle, Levi, Phoenix, Denver, Rose Bowl, LA Coliseum, San Diego).

[Farm93]

UofA has never won the Pac-##.  My guess is that their community would travel anywhere to support a team, that was just one win away from winning it all.  The Northwest schools live for rain and likely would be delighted to show the Pac-12 South representative how support in the rain is done.  The California schools are the ones with the worst bad weather reputation, but for those four schools proximity and easy logistics of a California venue can mitigate the weather and apathy issues.

If one looks at the conference the best venue is probably a new LA/OC Jaguars' stadium, but until then Levi is a very good choice.  The conference was losing ground in football and non-revenue sports to the SEC money and the Pac-## powers felt the conference needed a set of TV deals and $$ to compete.  Once on that path Friday was put in the realm just like all of those 7PM kick-offs.

I think the conference needs some stability and predictability from its TV partners.  The Pac-12 needs to own Las Vegas for hoops and some venue, city & day for the football Pac-12 CG.  Of all of the possible locations of the Pac-12 CG Levi is far and away the best for Stanford, so I don't think Stanford fans should be complaining too much given the realistic range of options (Seattle, Levi, Phoenix, Denver, Rose Bowl, LA Coliseum, San Diego).