1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Whats next for the PAC 12: July 5th, 10:25am

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a development. Nicholas decided to throw on Wimbledon on the television behind me, as you see. Right here. Right here.

If you're watching on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, or Twitter, you can see on the Sartor-Haman's Live video stream, Wimbledon, which I should actually take this down. See, Rico? He's going to try to play. That is a terrible idea. on his part. He's walking alright.

So I don't know what his first name is, but his last name is, ooh. Sinner. Look at that shot, though, also. He is... Oh, ugh. He is currently in the quarterfinal against the number one. He's the 10th seed.

Currently in the quarterfinal against number one seed, Jokovic. He, they are tied two to two, and he was up in the finals. He still is, technically. Well, he still is. Two sets to one. Joker.

Oh, my God, he returned it. he rolled his ankle what is going on pretty badly and uh now he's he's advantaged seeing if he can get it

but we'll see what happens that's unbelievable advantage joker here in the fourth set so um yeah it centers up two sets to one right now um but joker's up five to two in the fourth set and has the advantage

he has a set point here we'll see what happens wow well this this is interesting see i i am fascinated by wimbledon I'm sorry riko no you're fine but um i enjoy watching tennis Dude, they're serving it 100. That serve was 127 miles per hour.

How do you even return that? Like that. Well, that one was 90. And you returned it with ease. Back to a deuce. Wild. It's unbelievable. 127 miles per hour and you're able to return it.

Wild. Wild. I'm just run real. Okay. So, we're going to get to the ESPN article just came out today. Right? Today. July 5th.

From Bill Connolly. the biggest takeaways from USC and UCLA leaving the PAC 12 for the Big 10. He goes into talking about how UCLA and USC have been in some type of version of the PAC 12 since

the 1950s or what have you. But it's very I kind of agree with people who are upset about this move saying that football is dead. I don't agree with that. But I agree that it is confusing for two California teams to join a predominantly Midwest Northern Region conference where their styles don't mesh at all. And I understand styles, you know, whatever, you know, anybody can beat anybody.

It doesn't matter the styles. Yeah. But just everything about both of these schools, if you compare them to everything that the other schools in the Big Ten are about, it really doesn't match up. It's very confusing. Well, I think right now it's a little confusing because of that reason, like you said. However, if there's a bigger plan in place, or if the Big Ten knows that there's more additions coming, then the plan makes sense. Then it kind of makes sense after a while because you expect some more Western teams to join the fold, whether that's Oregon, whether that's Utah or even Colorado or Stanford,

you expect some of those dots to be a little more connected there or easier to connect if you kind of expand the footprint even more. But also in response to the college football is dead now argument. I don't agree with it. I don't agree with it because everybody that watches college football or pays attention or listens to the radio or listens to sports talk radio or watches ESPN, you kind of have seen this coming in the recent years. Like, that was a good shot.

Anyway, so like over time, you've seen the demise of college football happen, whether it was through NIL. And right at the start on July 1st of 2021, NIL started and it worked out really well at the beginning. And then teams and universities and boosters started to find loopholes, just like we all expected to have happen. And that was part of the problem as well, right,

towards the demise of college football. because now it's trending towards the our athletes actually specifically getting paid to play or come to a university because they're getting paid 9.5 million like the Miami quarterback or X amount of dollars to play their sport, whether it's football, basketball, or whatever have you, most of the time football. The demise of college football has been coming for a couple years now.

And then you add in Oklahoma and Texas going to the SEC, And that was the first time that you really started to hear about, you know, super conferences, becoming a thing. And now Reddit picked up to where there could just be one giant conference and the college football world getting out from the arms of the NCAA. Like that's been talked about for years. Like the one giant conference is literally just the NCAA model of football. Exactly. Without the NCAA. Like you could just have everybody join one conference and then just break them up into.

divisions that are just whatever like you could break them up into divisions at our conferences like it doesn't it's it's a weird thing and on and the Reddit thing I feel as if was a joke on on its head like in reality like it was just

you know if we do this we can do this and we can turn a super conference into eight smaller divisions and they can play for their division title and do this and I go so you're just going to do the incident of lay but you're just going to try and cut the instill a out like that's the thing. And we've seen this coming for a long time. Like, you move to a playoff model to where it, it's not close to the NFL at that point. Like, it wasn't close to the NFL in 2014. But what

are we talking about now? With super conferences comes expansion. And with super conferences comes either destroying divisions or creating more divisions. Like, if you want to create a 16 team thing, two 16 team conferences and make each, each conference into 4.5. divisions. What is that? It's just like the NFL. So like you're sitting here and you said to that argument of college football is now dead because USC and UCLA joined. They didn't know. No, no, they did not kill college football. And frankly, college football is not even dead yet. It's just altered because now there's so many other things that have happened in the recent years to now just keep on. I mean, you just keep on adding things and events that happen. College football is still college football.

The reason people want to say that college football is gone forever is because the regional matchups are going to go. The regional matchups aren't going to go away. You're still going to have those regional matchups. Maybe it'll have to be out of commerce. Maybe you don't get it every single year, but you're still going to have those matchups. There's a lot of people talking trash to each other.

If Virginia and Virginia Tech don't play every year, they're still going to talk trash to each other every single season. Like, oh, you couldn't beat this team that we played and we beat? Oh, you're garbage. We would beat. Like, it's none of the rivalries are going to go. Nebraska and Oklahoma, the rivalry didn't go away. They hadn't played in, I don't even know how long.

It didn't go. way it was still there Nebraska Colorado didn't play in so long you saw it was still there Nebraska Miami how electric was that environment they hadn't played in forever the rivalries aren't going to go anywhere you're just not going to get them to the same you know

every single year type of level that you get if you move to a super conference and people are saying oh the four the four conference super whatever is going to the four super conferences it's going to happen because the pack 12 is in discussions to merge with the big 12 is that really a

Superconference? Well, and then what's the ACC going to do? Because they don't have 16 teams. Well, they're going to, the ACC's going to. So who are they going to take? Is that a super conference? The ACCC has to dissolve here. It's going to.

You're not going to have four super conferences. You might get two super conferences and then another conference with some Power 5T, you know, some high name teams into it with the Pac-12 and the Big 12 merging. But that's, look, that's not a super conference. Who is the best team in that conference? Oregon? Utah? Pack 12?

Pack 12? It's right now, oh, in that conference. You would think Oregon, Utah, Oklahoma State Baylor? Baylor, yeah. Like those are your top four, and those four aren't

college football playoff teams. That conference does not have a college football playoff powerhouse perennial every single year team that you're actually scared of. They might get one. Oregon's going to be in the top 10, Utah's going to be in the top 10.

But Oregon's going to do what Oregon doesn't fold. the end of the season. Utah's going to do what they do and they're going to be great until their very last two games where they win a close one and then they lose a game that they shouldn't lose and they're going to be left out. Here's another thing, Rico, is like, then we got to talk about, so if, let's say the PAC 12 and the Big 12 merge, it's basically the Pac-10 and the Big 12 merge. Whatever. Um, yeah, exactly whatever. It's pish-posh. You talk about respect within the college football playoff and what they're going to need.

need to do to get in. Like, it's going to have to be an undefeated team number one, but yet folks are going to look at the end of, at the season and at X team's schedule and say, all right, who did they play? And is it really comparable to the schedule that USC played in the pack, or the big 10? Yeah, you're going to have a two-lossed USC with all of those, all of those wins against, you know, big 10, big 16 teams. Your two losses are by one score to Ohio State and Michigan. And Oregon's going to have one loss, but it was by two touchdowns to Arizona State.

Yep. Like, what are you valuing? That USC two losses looks a lot better. It looks a lot better. Now, with that in mind, we have to remember that if that's the case, then you're expanding the playoff. You have to. And we're already heading that way. Once again, it's heading that way.

We know what's going to happen. It's just a matter of win. Like, same thing with teams. Here's the thing. You have to remember last week when this whole thing kind of came out, It was not more, it was not the shock that the Big Ten added teams. It was the shock of who they added. And so that's where you feel like even though they don't say that they have a plan in place,

they are definitely, like there's got to be a plan in place. Because you do not add USC and UCLA and then just stop. And granted, yes, USC and UCLA reached out to them. Yes, exactly. Wasn't looking to expand. But it was a UNET. Bull crap. It was, well, they weren't looking to expand at this moment.

Yes, thank you. They were, they were. The presidents, the chancellors, whoever does the voting for these universities. It was a unanimous yes. Yeah. Unanimously voted to bring two California teams into the Big Ten. You're not stopping there. Yeah, and Texas Jeremy makes a good point.

And I kind of opened up this idea last week. What happens to the group of five teams? Do they die off? Do they become FCS? I think they become FCS. Let's get into that in the next segment because I have an idea. Oh, boy. I have an idea for some of these group of five teams.

Uh-oh. We'll hit that next on one on one. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com.