12-member Division 1 Women’s Basketball Selection committee for 2022-23:
Lisa Peterson, deputy athletics director at Oregon
Beth Goetz, director of athletics at Ball State
Deneé Barracato, deputy director of athletics at Northwestern
Jill Bodensteiner, director of athletics at Saint Joseph’s
Jenny Bramer, executive associate athletics director at San Diego State
Amanda Braun, athletics director at Milwaukee
Derita Dawkins, assistant vice chancellor and deputy athletics director at Arkansas
Alex Gary, director of athletics at Western Carolina
Lizzie Gomez, deputy athletics director at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Jill Shields, deputy athletics director at Kansas State
Todd Stansbury, director of athletics at Georgia Tech
Lynn Tighe, senior associate athletics director at Villanova
Yeah, I really don’t see the likelihood of Oregon/Washington going to the B12. They’d have to be pretty desperate to associate themselves with that crowd. The faculty for sure would go into full meltdown mode. Similarly the B12 would have to be pretty desperate to invite them in to be the full drama replacements for TX/OU.
I certainly hope the PAC can work things out, but I’m sure Utah will end up fine.
Time to move on until some REAL news beyond constant speculation finally arrives…
My totally uninformed opinion is that the four corner schools won’t reach out to the Big12 while Oregon and Washington are still in the conference. Doesn’t look like the Big10 is calling, so their options are limited. Some Big12 honks think they’ll go to the Big12, but I don’t see that happening. I think they’d go Independent before they associated themselves with Big12 schools. Or, try to reach out to the ACC and sign onto their existing GOR.
You bring up an interesting point about viewership issues with west coast college football teams. There may be a viewpoint that it doesn’t matter where the Pac12 TV deal lands, it’s always going to have viewership issues, so they might as well go where the money is.
If Apple is willing to essentially overpay for the Pac12 in order to gain the Pac12 Network infrastructure and monetize it, than the conference would be fools not to listen to their offer. Apple is one of the richest and most influential companies on the planet. And if the Pac12 was their product, you know they’d heavily promote it. That is not a bad thing.
At the end of the day, I just want to watch Utah play and make a few playoff runs under the 12 team format. If Utah makes the move to the Big12, I wouldn’t care. Just give me Utah football.
It’s funny reading on CB what they think will happen to the Pac-12. Sometimes I like CB because there are dudes who have actual insider info, but most of the time it’s just way too extreme, especially when it comes to topics of anything associated with Utah. They all think the Pac-12 is going to die, but if I’ve learned anything from reading CB and Utah message boards is that usually it’s something in between that will happen. So probably the PAC-12 will secure a television deal and the conference will live on comfortably and somewhat happily. I am curious though, are y’all feeling confident with the stability of the PAC-12?
Also, it cracks me up how CB talks way more about Utah than they do their own team. On this message board you rarely see anything about BYU.
I’m not originally from Utah so it’s pretty easy for me to admit that I’ve always associated “Red Rock(s)” with Colorado – thanks U2. And even after spending a bunch of time in Bryce, it took a few years before I finally made the association with the gymnastics team. Put me on the list of those who think mascots are unnecessary, and if you have to explain why something is your mascot, it has even less value.
Adrian Klemm hired by New England.
Not sure what if any impact it will have on the Utes, but looks like the Ducks will need to find a new OL coach, he was also the associate head coach and run have coordinator.
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How can you associate that matchup with such a great album?
He never accused just one party of having flaws he just pointed out one flaw that one of them has. The funny part of comment is that it’s rather unclear about which it is, maybe that’s something to think on. I associate “calling people out” with the left, but it’s pretty undeniable that BYU is an abnormally right leaning university.
There’s always been a contingency of BYU fans who are arrogant, self-righteous, holier-than-thou losers. Kind of a trademark of their fanbase. Mixing religion and sports always results in weird fans that think their teams are divinely selected and look down on other fanbases as godless heathens.
Even on Cougarboard, where that kind of behavior is common, some of their fans get called out for being insufferable. There’s this one dude on Twitter, his name is Jalenooper or something, that verbally accosted a Ute fan at Scheel’s over a tweet. A tweet!
The vitriol has definitely ramped up the last two years. It’s to be expected with rivals when one program is successful and the other is not. The back-to-back conference championships combined with Utah lapping them in recruiting has them really fired up.
It’s mostly online, though. Haven’t had any BYU fans talk s**t to me in real life. Maybe that’s because I only associate with reasonable fans that understand winning 1 out of the last 10 games with doesn’t really give them much to work with.
Makes you wonder though. There are costs (personal and professional) associated with moving to another program with just one year of eligibility left. I mean, you’re going from an environment that you’re completely familiar with to one completely different (system, culture, climate, etc…). In addition, no matter their record last year, A&M’s roster is stacked on both sides of the ball and there are absolutely zero guarantees that Mataele will even sniff the field on a team that probably will be worse (record-wise) than Utah.
