[jayasena]

Looks like this is heading the way I feared. According to Haden from http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_...-the-north

We’re going for the money, sadly, that’s what it is. We need a conference title game. I went to my first athletic directors meeting last week and we discussed expansion. We made a recommendation that passed 7 to 5 and the presidents of the schools will vote on it later this month. There’s no guarantee it will pass, it was only a 7 to 5 vote, certainly not unanimous. The alignment that got 7 votes was one that puts USC/UCLA, the Arizona schools and Col/Utah in the same division. I told them my alumni will kill me if we don’t play the Northern California schools and have the weekender every year. I proposed a 5-2-2 model that has us playing the five schools (UCLA, AZ schools and Co/Ut) every year and then have the Northern California schools as part of our regular 2 and then rotate the other two. We need to play Stanford and Cal.

We are likely stuck playing Oregon, USC, Oregon State, UCLA and Washington every year. Yes, I realize some of those will be weak in any given year but in the long run, on average, those are the toughest teams in the conference and nobody but us and Cal will have to play all of them every year.

[jayasena]

Looks like this is heading the way I feared. According to Haden from http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_...-the-north

We’re going for the money, sadly, that’s what it is. We need a conference title game. I went to my first athletic directors meeting last week and we discussed expansion. We made a recommendation that passed 7 to 5 and the presidents of the schools will vote on it later this month. There’s no guarantee it will pass, it was only a 7 to 5 vote, certainly not unanimous. The alignment that got 7 votes was one that puts USC/UCLA, the Arizona schools and Col/Utah in the same division. I told them my alumni will kill me if we don’t play the Northern California schools and have the weekender every year. I proposed a 5-2-2 model that has us playing the five schools (UCLA, AZ schools and Co/Ut) every year and then have the Northern California schools as part of our regular 2 and then rotate the other two. We need to play Stanford and Cal.

We are likely stuck playing Oregon, USC, Oregon State, UCLA and Washington every year. Yes, I realize some of those will be weak in any given year but in the long run, on average, those are the toughest teams in the conference and nobody but us and Cal will have to play all of them every year.