Reason #638462 Yormark is a hack and the Big 12 sucks.

[Utah]

Ohio St vs Michigan.
Miss St vs Ole Miss
South Carolina vs Clemson
USC vs Notre Dame
Auburn vs Alabama
Florida vs Florida St
ASU vs Arizona

And we get f**king UCF.

What a joke.

With how awful our season has been, how fun would it be to play BYU to end the year?

Yormark is a dope.

[Jim McMahon]

I get that many of you hate the B12 but Yormark has actually been an awesome and very astute commissioner.

He is playing with house money with how he got the TV deal before the Pac 12 two years ago and basically made that conference collapse, allowing him to poach the four corner schools.

In regards to the holy war, us BYU fans would also love it to be the last game of the year, but he scheduled it for when he did hoping that it would draw more eyeballs without having to compete with all the other major games this week. Unfortunately, it was a very late start so it didn’t really matter.

Hopefully it is moved to the final game of the season in years to come, where it should be.

Why do you hate him?

[EagleMountainUte]

He gets credit for SC moving to the big 10? Ok. Sure. It is well documented that SC collapsed the conference with Oregon.

[Jim McMahon]

He definitely accelerated it. The conference may have always collapsed anyway, but he cut in line to secure a TV deal that sealed its fate.

https://www.si.com/college/usc/football/big-12-totally-out-maneuvered-pac-12-by-getting-early-media-right-deal-done

[Jim McMahon]

Here’s a better article on it.

Kliavkaff was a dope and overestimated. Even if the Pac 12 lost USC, Oregon, Washington, and UCLA, if it would have secured a TV deal first, it could have collapsed the big 12 and then poached the best remaining teams from there. The survivors of the Pac 12 and a few big 12 schools would have been a better conference than the current B12 from a pure brand perspective.

Yormark was one step ahead and cut in line and secured a deal for stability. I get that you guys hate this conference, but he has actually been an awesome commissioner by destroying the remnants of your conference and keeping the big 12 intact.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-08-16/pac-12-collapse-decisions-realignment-ucla-oregon#:~:text=The%20Pac%2D12’s%20math%20said,Ten%20for%20breaking%20its%20agreement.

[Dallas]

My high school shop teacher could have out maneuvered Larry Scott and his successor. The pac 12 had been mismanaged for a long time. Give credit where credit is due. Larry Scott and USC killed the pac.

[Jim McMahon]

The B12 lost Texas and Oklahoma and survived with lesser brands than the P12 would have been without USC. Give Yormark credit for outmaneuvering Kliakaff.

And I agree, the P12 has been mismanaged. But one of its biggest issues has been fan apathy. Cal, Stanford, and UCLA barely have fans at games. Its embarrassing. The B12 has survived because even though it’s a “truck stop” conference, it has passionate fan bases.

[China Rider]

Too bad Tulane lost today. I was really hoping the B12 was going to get skunked with the committee.

[Jim McMahon]

So much sour grapes on here haha.

[Roy Rangum]

I realize being better than Larry Scott and Kliavkoff is a low bar to clear, but Yormark is head and shoulders above them. Could he be better? Sure. But considering that he’s the best commissioner we’ve had in a long long time, I’m not overly eager to criticize him (at least not yet).

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