From: Roddy.McCorley@verizon.net   
      
   On 7/27/2023 12:36 PM, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:   
   >>> Kliavkoff has been a disaster but lots of people are being polite and not   
   saying so. Under his watch USC and UCLA has signed onto the Big 10-12-14-16   
   and he's failed to get any media deal. That thing he said "today is about   
   football" was telling.    
   There's nothing in sight.   
   >> No, the Pac-12 is finished and the death knell was the moment USC and UCLA   
   jumped.   
   >   
   > If it can talk a few of the San Diego States and Boise States out west into   
   joining, it can still hang on as a football conference.   
   > I think the key team here is Stanford - if it leaves, the others might as   
   well start making phone calls; the best it could hope for is to become a   
   Patriot-style conference where your decent football teams play in another   
   conference.   
   > ("But Stanford won't leave without Cal" - why? Explain how being in two   
   different conferences doesn't stop Florida-Florida State and Georgia-Georgia   
   Tech from happening every season.)   
      
      
   These new alignments are really wonderful.   
      
   Here are some compelling games:   
      
   Texas at Vandy   
   Maryland at USC   
   Okie at South Carolina   
   USC at Rutgers   
      
   But they still can't compare to WVU at Iowa st.   
   --   
   "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In   
   practice, there is."  Ruben Goldberg   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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