Pac-12 is Dead, Utah Needs to Find a New Home

It’s kinda wild to me that the PAC has been so quiet, I was on the wait train. But now I want something. Like do anything, say something. The take the high road crap doesn’t get you anywhere, especially in this era of college ball. SDSU didn’t sign, haven’t heard anything about SMU, and now the toilet paper leftover on the booty of the PAC has a 31 million dollar deal. Do something

Utah needed to bolt weeks ago. The writing has been on the way – GK clearly cannot negotiate his way out of a paper bag and is a backwards thinker. What a joke. P12 makes the worse top down decisions…so s**tty. 

At this point I am genuinely nervous about Utah’s future – just hopeful our leadership is more forward thinking and are destined to the B12 with Colorado hand in hand.

On a positive note – now officially moved to B2 country. Would love to watch Utah games out here. 

Actually the ACC and the remaining school’s in the PAC12 need to just join together. ESPN would have East coast West coast coverage.

100% agree. Colorado is replaceable, Oregon and Washington are not. So far, the news has been pretty consistent that the Big10 is not inviting them this go around, and I don’t see them leaving for the Big12 either.

The nightmare scenario is if UW and UO decide to go Big12. Utah will be stuck behind in the Pac that is backfilled with MWC teams, with a payout of $10M per year.

This is the passive/reactive thought process that may lead to Utah being left behind once the dust settles. UO/UW for all intent and purposes are gone – whether that is now or in a couple years…why sit around in a sitting duck league waiting for the inevitable. 

I would hope our leadership (Harlan) is smarter than that. Be aggressive, create your own future rather than let others dictate your terms. 

Pac brings a knife to a gun fight and holds the knife to their own throat. This conference is unbelievable in it’s terrible decision making.

Not true, it’s the mountain west. Utah has been offered the xii and said no due to not being an academic fit. Utah may just find itself waiting to pull the plug too long and then be left out of even being in the big xii…just because they have byu-p doesn’t mean we should avoid them. Get over yourself or it’s back to playing New Mexico and unlv every year.

All those who say play in those towns rather than Reno, Albuquerque, Logan and boise and be irrelevant in college football say aye!

I don’t know if people think Utah will necessarily be fine no matter what, they just realize that we here on this board fighting about it and acting like the sky is falling won’t change a damn thing. I think a lot of us try to take the approach that if we can’t help it, we leave it alone. I love Utah sports and did back when we were in the WAC and will regardless. It sucks, and it adds a little stress to my life that the P12 is having issues, but I can’t do anything about it. As many have said, just because the administration isn’t talking publicly doesn’t mean they are doing nothing. In the end, we will see how this goes. Hopefully it moves in the right direction.

Utah has a lot going for it: Winning has made us valuable, and Kyle has parlayed that into a successful program. We have high fan engagement in a decent and growing market. We are very much becoming a brand, and that matters most right now, even above market size, in the streaming model if the world. It is honestly possible for conferences to stop mattering in the future when TV rights aren’t as big of a.deal. personally, I won’t be shocked to eventually see a kicky ball (I actually love the way European leagues do this) tiered system once the tradition of CFB erodes a little more (and it already has a ton). Utah should be working on controlling what it can: Play on the field and negotiating with the major players. Us fans should root for our team and support them ro make sure we are always good candidates. My 2 cents.