IS IT FINALLY TIME FOR GONZAGA TO JOIN THE PAC 12?

[ariputtie]

https://cbbreview.com/2020/02/19/is-...in-the-pac-12/

[CaliZag44]

https://cbbreview.com/2020/02/19/is-...in-the-pac-12/

As a Boise State football fan here's what I'd love to see:

BYU join the pac 12 as a full member

Boise join the Pac 12 as a Football only member

Gonzaga join the Pac 12 in all sports but football.

This way, the Pac 12 goes to 14 in football and basketball while adding the most competitive teams in the region for each sport.

[ariputtie]

really like that idea!

[scrooner]

Nah.

[former1dog]

This might be the 200th thread on this topic?

It won't happen. Large, publicly funded research institutions have nothing in common with very small, (for the most part) privately funded Catholic schoolsting with an emphasis on educating its students. We won't get an invite.

[sylean]

the article lost me when it said the Zags had a "boring regular season"....its never been boring...

[zagdontzig]

As a Boise State football fan here's what I'd love to see:

BYU join the pac 12 as a full member

Boise join the Pac 12 as a Football only member

Gonzaga join the Pac 12 in all sports but football.

This way, the Pac 12 goes to 14 in football and basketball while adding the most competitive teams in the region for each sport.

I'm confused by the love for programs like BYU, Denver, and Grand Canyon. Why are we so preoccupied with mediocrity?

[phxfireflames]

I'm good. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

[hockeyzag]

The headline is misleading.

Would love for GU to join the Pac-12 and show the conference who's boss on the west coast in basketball, however this article doesn't point to any meaningful dialogue from the conference or our University on the subject. It's just one writer who is making a case for the possibility.

[TexasZagFan]

https://cbbreview.com/2020/02/19/is-...in-the-pac-12/

Just what we don't need: another blog pimp looking for clicks. You got me once...won't happen again.

[zagdontzig]

I'm good. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Very true. No team is so good as to guarantee the title. You just have to keep getting the team to the front door, and eventually, we get through.

[CB4]

Just what we don't need: another blog pimp looking for clicks. You got me once...won't happen again.

You nailed it. OP has 2 posts and he wants clicks but couldn't even bother to write an insightful blog post with any content. Mods should remove the link in the original post...

[TravelinZag]

PAC12: large, mostly state schools that plat football; GU: none of these. Bad fit. NO!

[zagamatic]

The writer lost me at "would get more nationally televised games". Aside from maybe Arizona, is there another PAC12 team that even comes close to the number of TV games we have? And no, I don't include games on the PAC12 network.

[MDABE80]

We’re already no 1 seed and no1 in most polls. How might us joining PAC -12 improve that? Money? Dunno. But our goals are met season after season

[gonzagafan62]

No

[gonzagafan62]

You nailed it. OP has 2 posts and he wants clicks but couldn't even bother to write an insightful blog post with any content. Mods should remove the link in the original post...

I agree with this. Take it down!

[gonzagafan62]

The writer lost me at "would get more nationally televised games". Aside from maybe Arizona, is there another PAC12 team that even comes close to the number of TV games we have? And no, I don't include games on the PAC12 network.

No

[sittingon50]

Tacos?

[zagfan08]

Writer and OP is just a kid who goes to Kansas writing for a blog while in college. Doesn’t know anything about this topic and looking for clicks on our board.

[jazzdelmar]

Attract more fans, that was freaking hilarious.

[TexasZagFan]

Writer and OP is just a kid who goes to Kansas writing for a blog while in college. Doesn’t know anything about this topic and looking for clicks on our board.

Dr. Graue would have skewered him for lack of preparation. LOL, I still bear the scars from his rapier wit.

[Mr Vulture]

As a Boise State football fan here's what I'd love to see:

BYU join the pac 12 as a full member

Boise join the Pac 12 as a Football only member

Gonzaga join the Pac 12 in all sports but football.

This way, the Pac 12 goes to 14 in football and basketball while adding the most competitive teams in the region for each sport.

Pac12 requires schools to be research institutions and they would want a major market to expand. There is no way Gonzaga would be in the P12 without football.

Boise State has zero chance due to their academic profile alone. The market is smaller than Spokane, which the P12 considers WSU to have covered

I do think BYU could be considered but they want to stay an independent in football, which wouldn’t work.

The real schools the P12 wants are Texas and Oklahoma but that’s unlikely. Primary stumbling block before was Texas being unwilling to give up their network or share league revenues equally.


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[VaBeachZAG]

Pac12 requires schools to be research institutions and they would want a major market to expand. There is no way Gonzaga would be in the P12 without football.

Boise State has zero chance due to their academic profile alone. The market is smaller than Spokane, which the P12 considers WSU to have covered

I do think BYU could be considered but they want to stay an independent in football, which wouldn’t work.

The real schools the P12 wants are Texas and Oklahoma but that’s unlikely. Primary stumbling block before was Texas being unwilling to give up their network or share league revenues equally.


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The only unrealized goals left for GU basketball are a national championship and the prestige of a power conference membership. The former is likely, the latter is not. As many have observed, GU's biggest weakness in recruiting is its conference affiliation. Being in the WCC does not seem to seriously impact recruiting today, but that may not (likely will not) always be the case. Given geographic and other considerations, GU has nowhere to go for a meaningful conference upgrade.

[GoZags]

Dr. Graue would have skewered him for lack of preparation. LOL, I still bear the scars from his rapier wit.

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