[81alum]

Good question, Outsider.

For me, the answer is "no."

Stanford football going to a low ebb would be bad enough, or the Pac 12 implosion would be terrible, but having them both in the same year completely quashed my interest.

I was never a serious Pac-12 football fan, but I will say I watched some other Pac 12 games that impacted Stanford.  I was against the Pac 8 becoming the Pac 10!  (The Arizona schools did not seem sufficiently pacific to me!) But over the decades I developed a bit of west-coast loyalty.  There was truth to the criticism of college football that west coast teams got short shrift, and so I usually (USC excepted) would cheer for other Pac 12 teams.  A kind of underdog mentality.

Now--nothing.  The only interest now might be an even greater hatred of USC and wishing it ill.  But not enough to waste my time watching them.

[81alum]

Good question, Outsider.

For me, the answer is "no."

Stanford football going to a low ebb would be bad enough, or the Pac 12 implosion would be terrible, but having them both in the same year completely quashed my interest.

I was never a serious Pac-12 football fan, but I will say I watched some other Pac 12 games that impacted Stanford.  I was against the Pac 8 becoming the Pac 10!  (The Arizona schools did not seem sufficiently pacific to me!) But over the decades I developed a bit of west-coast loyalty.  There was truth to the criticism of college football that west coast teams got short shrift, and so I usually (USC excepted) would cheer for other Pac 12 teams.  A kind of underdog mentality.

Now--nothing.  The only interest now might be an even greater hatred of USC and wishing it ill.  But not enough to waste my time watching them.