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Nov 14, 2024
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Kajdin
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Yes, Utah's academic profile grew tremendously during the PAC years. I'm all for
Picking on them when it's deserved but they did a very good job leveraging free unlimited access to Stanford and Cals libraries.
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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.
CascadeBYUFan
2:49pm
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