Pac-12 divisional splits announced
Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott just announced the breakdown for the new realignment of the conference, with UCLA, USC, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado in the Pac-12 South, and Stanford, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington and Washington State in the Pac-12 North.
Scott said that there will continue to be a nine-game football schedule, with the California teams playing each other every year to maintain long-lasting rivalries, and an 18-game basketball schedule.
The other interesting news items: Contrary to previous reports, the media rights will be shared equally, unless I'm misunderstanding this, and the conference football championship game will be played at the home field of the top seed.
UPDATE: According to the great Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News, USC and UCLA get $2 million more than other schools in any year total revenues are less than $170 million.
wow, utah and colorado with us and the deasert and the getto...
c'mon... desert and ghetto. Have some pride, we're not SCCC.
What are the total revenues currently?
Should be...
Division 1
UCLA
USC
Arizona
Arizona State
Stanford
Cal
Division 2
Colorado
Utah
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington Washington State
from ESPN: "Men's and women's basketball teams will play an 18-game conference schedule that includes home-and-home games with traditional rivals, six rotating home-and-homes and single games against the remaining four conference teams."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5711336
what are "traditional rivals" in basketball? does that mean the only home-and-home game thats set in a season is against USC? all others will be on rotation from year to year?
anon @ 12:33PM, the following is from Bud Wither's story in the Seattle Times on Oct. 18 (and he attributes the numbers as coming from the San Jose Mercury News):
Bucks out of balance
Pac-10 schools receive revenue from the conference from three primary sources: football bowl appearances, the NCAA basketball tournament and TV rights. The first two are split equally, but the appearance-based TV model tilts the total of the cash received toward those on the tube the most.
Money from those three sources distributed over the latest two-year period available (the academic years of 2007-08 and 2008-09):
USC $22,904,973
Oregon $18,438,293
UCLA $18,012,614
California $17,464,382
OSU $17,167,040
ASU $16,656,606
Washington $16,598,735
Arizona $15,402,227
WSU $14,356,743
Stanford $14,114,638
Source: San Jose Mercury News
The conference championship is played at the home of the best record? Seems it would be better in a neutral site like the others where the crowd is 50/50.
I'm glad I left the Pac-10 before they forgot how to determine the difference between cities relative north/south location:
Seattle, Wash. 47 37 N
Pullman, WA 46°44'N
Corvallis 44°34N
Eugene 44°05'N
Salt Lake City 40°45'N
Boulder, Colo. 40°01N
173.59 miles south before hitting:
Berkeley 37°52N
Palo Alto 37°27'N
Los Angeles 34°04'N
Westwood 34°03'N
Phoenix, Az 33°27'N
Tucson 32°13'N