As the Trojans and Bruins reportedly prepare to bolt for the Big Ten, we can see where this path began.
So the Pac-12 is about to become the Pac-10 again, maybe even the Pac-8. Back to the future, indeed.
The Power Five? Once the Trojans and Bruins change conferences, which presumably will be in 2024, you might as well call it the Power Two. The Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference will dominate the landscape. The Atlantic Coast Conference will be susceptible to poaching . And the Big 12 and the rest of the Pac-whatever will be raiding lesser conferences to fill out its membership, understanding that the TV money bonanza has passed them by.isn’t that far off, after all.
The third was an obsession with luxe office space. The shift of the conference offices to pricey property in downtown San Francisco helped bleed the conference coffers at the same time that the Pac-12 was falling further financially behind its brethren in the Power Five … and that designation already sounds quaint.
And we should have seen it coming when USC athletic director Mike Bohn suggested a couple of years ago, shortly after arriving in L.A., that USC was willing to keep its options open. At the time we thought that meant going independent, at least in football, as one of the few schools with a large enough profile to follow Notre Dame’s lead. Obviously, we weren’t thinking as big as he was.
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