Utah fell in love with Academic associations with Stanford and Cal. This really

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Nov 14, 2024
1:41:23pm

SnickSnack All-American

made them feel important. There were other reasons as well.

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SnickSnack

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The other three Pac schools didn't have a problem joining B12, was Utah's

cowbellcoug

1:13pm

That is certainly part of it

Huge Manatee

1:14pm

Doesn't explain why they suck so much more than the other PAC teams though.

momowagon

1:15pm

Because they put all their hope into a broken QB

WJCougar

1:16pm

yep

Avery

1:15pm

They thought the Big 12 was beneath them....

WJCougar

1:15pm

ASU’s Administration wasn’t thrilled with the idea at first.

BluesBrother

1:17pm

Seem to recall disparaging remarks from their AD about going to Morgantown.

valcorger

1:21pm

I spoken with some ASU fans, and asked them what they thought of joining the Big

paulb

1:34pm

They had also put so much stock into how amazing the Pac-12 was and how great

BYUHawk

1:22pm

The PAC12 was unambiguously a better conference academically, and Utah

garyfan

1:24pm

Utah is mostly just a commuter school for kids in SLC that can't get into BYU

88Coug

2:20pm

That's definitely part of it, but it's also inflated egos.

BlueFever

1:25pm

Partly, but also because they thought they were B1G-bound.

TheNerd

1:29pm

Arizona St. kind of did... their President did not want to join...

Coug

1:37pm

Utah was invited to a "cool kids" party with a minimum attendance requirement

Little Mac

1:41pm

Utah fell in love with Academic associations with Stanford and Cal. This really

SnickSnack

1:41pm

Has Utah even raised their Academic standards at all in the last 12 years?

Coug

1:43pm

Yes, Utah's academic profile grew tremendously during the PAC years. I'm all for

Kajdin

1:50pm

ASU was less vocal, but did not want it either. Arizona had to convince them.

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