Is there still a chance Memphis joins the Pac-12? | Gary Parrish Show
After yesterday’s press conference held by the Memphis Athletic Director (Ed Scott), Gary and Bennett break down the latest on the Memphis-to-Pac-12 situation. Is the door still open?
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23 Comments
You cant give a counter offer until you know what the number would be. How much would Memphis need to travel and compete in West coast sports? Also assuming he was waiting on what other two said. Cuz your number would need to be close or beat theirs.
You can give a counter offer until you know what the number would be. Also assuming he was waiting on what other two said. Cuz your number would need to be close or beat theirs.
Have you ever gone to purchase a. car and the price was high so you offered less. The salesman told. you there was no way he could go that low. So you start to walk out and he comes running out to the parking lot and says his manager told him that ….. I think this is what is happening here. Memphis is stupid not to join the Pacific Division. The do have greater costs for travel that must be met. I hope they all sort it out because i think everybody wins in this one.
Im a Sac State fan and hoping the pac12 doesn't visit Memphis again! Sac State is ready to join the big boys in the pac12! We're in the process of upgrading our stadium! Go HORNETS!!!
Pac 12 will come back with a better aid package to help AAC schools, I think that $2.5 million was just an initial offer, that reported exit fee from the AAC of $25 million? is brutal. I think right now they are focusing on getting Gonzaga and probably Texas State which will provide more certainty for everyone and then they will revisit the AAC schools. Reports are the CW TV contract offer to the Pac 12 is $8-$15 million depending on who else they get, right now I believe AAC TV deal is just $7 million. Oregon State AD said a few weeks ago they wanted everything in place for 2026 season by January 2025, so this negotiation could go on for up to three months.
These things take time
The only issue would be the Olympic sports. I'd still go if the PAC offered some help. Go West!
Probably won’t happen but it be cool if the new PAC12 merges with AAC, it be there own super conference and can be considered the power 5. Take the 12 out of the name and just call it “PAC” Pacific American Conference.
Hear this: If done right the new PAC will incorporate the 2 most football crazy regions in the country: the South and the Mountain west.
Memphis and Tulane
UTSA (or Texas State) and Rice
Utah State and Wyoming
South Florida and Southern Miss
UConn and Georgia State
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I have been hearing that the 4 MWC teams were paid 5-7 million each for their exit fees. That should have been the absolute minimum offered to Memphis. 2.5 million was not a good offer.
How can the AAC provide an incentive to “pass on the big 12” ??? Yall weren’t pick… houston over Memphis 😂
Cmon over!!
BSU fan here! The PAC NEEDs Memphis! The PAC commission needs to pull her head out of her arse and get back to the negotiating table! Would love to establish a great rivalry between BSU and Memphis!!
Long term is a good decision to move to PAC.. but well its your decision
Money wasted on UNLV they are falling apart. The only reason they got that money is because the pac is taking teams
GO AZTECS !!! Come on, Memphis, no guts, no glory. Your league has nothing new to offer, just move 😉💯🚀
The PacMWC Union needs to prove they can secure a viable media rights deal first. Why would any AAC school in their right mind gamble on the PacMWC? Of the G5 conferences, the AAC currently has the best media rights deal and is partnered with ESPN.
If the Pac 12 can't get a deal with ESPN, Fox, or WB/Discovery, they are going to get kind of buried in obscurity. Especially since those three have entered a partnership and are about to launch their standalone services that brings all their linear networks and sport streaming media under one umbrella. So, if the Pac 12 isn't part of the conglomerate that is going to hold nearly all of college sports media rights east of the Rockies (AAC, ACC, B1G, Big 12, CUSA, MAC, Sun Belt, and SEC), their viewership numbers are going to dwindle.
You're not buying a Used Car, your best offer is your first offer in these kind of business dealings.
The PAC whatever has no television deal and could not get one that made sense when it was the actual PAC 12. This is what triggered the loss of its major programs. What are probabilities it will get one that substantially betters the one firmly in place for the AAC? It would have to be substantial for Memphis to offset the increased costs and issues of travel , particularly for sports other than football or basketball. Couple this with the growing chance the ACC will need to add Memphis, USF and Tulane in a couple of years in a deal that will very likely surpass what the PAC can offer and the wisdom of Memphis rejecting the PAC is clear.
Good point about making a counter offer!
Pac would be silly to let Memphis slip away
Playing BSU, WSU, OSU, ect every year should be enough of an incentive on its own! Does Memphis wanna play top 25 programs or not?
The pac said they would stick together after ucla and usc left. That didn't happen. So maybe