Hey Big Ten, were you watching?

[SuperDuck]

Hate to break it to everyone who think Oregon should stay, or will stay in the PAC. Money trumps all when it comes to these universities. If Oregon is offered by the B1G, and payout is large enough, I would fully expect Oregon to jump ship.

Agreed^^^

I don't like it, but I also don't want to be left behind. We'll have to have that money in order to continue to compete at a high level.

[Duck07]

Hate to break it to everyone who think Oregon should stay, or will stay in the PAC. Money trumps all when it comes to these universities. If Oregon is offered by the B1G, and payout is large enough, I would fully expect Oregon to jump ship.

Agreed^^^

I don't like it, but I also don't want to be left behind. We'll have to have that money in order to continue to compete at a high level.

No we won't.

Giving a 95M contract to a HC like Mel Tucker or Jimbo Fisher can also become a mountain of debt, too. Imagine wasting 2 years of your TV deal profits to fire a guy or else sit through losing season after losing season until the buyout is low-enough. Ask Miami how they feel about all the profit from their Hospital going to Mario and his new staff.

Oregon, in a weak Pac with an auto-bid to the CFP will be just fine. Recruits can't get that TV $ yet and until that changes, I'm not really worried about that discrepancy because Oregon will be one of the better NIL schools and its possible that schools that over-pay coaches and donors that don't add to the NIL could cause issues for recruits wanting to play there as now it really is all about the money. Its also only going to be a temporary period of time where that TV $ is so large relative to other schools.

Sure, Indiana could lure Lanning away by paying him a 7 year/100 Million contract that Oregon would laugh at and say thanks for putting 3 years of your revenue into 1 football coach and paying us his buyout.

[squintsdd]

Hate to break it to everyone who think Oregon should stay, or will stay in the PAC. Money trumps all when it comes to these universities. If Oregon is offered by the B1G, and payout is large enough, I would fully expect Oregon to jump ship.

Agreed^^^

I don't like it, but I also don't want to be left behind. We'll have to have that money in order to continue to compete at a high level.

No we won't.

Giving a 95M contract to a HC like Mel Tucker or Jimbo Fisher can also become a mountain of debt, too. Imagine wasting 2 years of your TV deal profits to fire a guy or else sit through losing season after losing season until the buyout is low-enough. Ask Miami how they feel about all the profit from their Hospital going to Mario and his new staff.

Oregon, in a weak Pac with an auto-bid to the CFP will be just fine. Recruits can't get that TV $ yet and until that changes, I'm not really worried about that discrepancy because Oregon will be one of the better NIL schools and its possible that schools that over-pay coaches and donors that don't add to the NIL could cause issues for recruits wanting to play there as now it really is all about the money. Its also only going to be a temporary period of time where that TV $ is so large relative to other schools.

Sure, Indiana could lure Lanning away by paying him a 7 year/100 Million contract that Oregon would laugh at and say thanks for putting 3 years of your revenue into 1 football coach and paying us his buyout.

You seem to be thinking about this from a football standpoint. Think about it from the university standpoint. All they want is the money. Football success doesn't matter as much of they're getting paid significantly more just by being in a different conference.

[Duck07]

Most all of these schools already have billion dollar plus endowments and football absolutely drives enrollment with twenty plus years of evidence.

It isn't like they're going to reduce tuition as a result, lol.

[duck023]

I feel like the Pac 12 should treat Oregon like royalty at this point. If they do, then it might be in the best interest to stay. The ACC is pretty bad and the Pac 12 is still better than that conference without the LA schools. Hopefully the Pac 12 will treat Oregon with respect.