Pac-10 Expansion Rumors Lead to Statement from Commissioner Larry Scott
The Pac-10 is Going to Be Exploring the Possibility of Expansion and Which Teams Might Work
Right now the Pac-10 has a television contract that works its way through the 2011-2012 school year, meaning that no changes can be made to the conference before that date. The choice can be made before then though, and the wheels can be set in motion to bring on one or two more schools to the Pac-10 while the current contracts run out. So the next question quickly becomes which teams (schools) would want to join the Pac-10, and how would that affect the conference schedule. Right now the Pac-10 is one of the only major conferences where every team plays every other team during the season. Increasing the number of teams could change a lot.
A couple of the rumors out there have Utah jumping over to the Pac-10 because they are unhappy with the Mountain West Conference. Another rumor has Colorado coming over as the Big-12 talks with BYU about bringing them in their fold. The final rumor has Boise State finally leaving their conference and coming to play with the big boys. With this all taking place in the college off-season, make sure to take all Pac-10 expansion with a grain of salt until we have real quotes from University Presidents or movement from the Pac-10 commissioner. A Pac-10 expansion could lead to a conference championship game though, and that might excite a lot of fans.
Current Pac-10 Conference
Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, and Washington State.
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2 Comments
Post a Commenti would be interested in BYU or utah, in that order joining the pac 10.
boise state will never join the pac 10. their academics rank them with community colleges and they are terrible in all sports but football. I even doubt they would do well if their football team actually had to play a real schedule.