2010 The Final Year Of The Pac-10; Utah Joining In 2011, Colorado Too?

Good stuff, thanks Avi.

Contracts are just that. Despite being in the MWC, the Utes still have a good schedule this next year.

Pitt, Notre Dame, TCU, and BYU should all be decent games. I think they also play Iowa St. So that will be a pretty tough schedule. Not as good as having USC, UCLA, Cal, or Oregon coming to your stadium, but still good.

Now that all the realignment silliness is over … good god! I am so fired up for this season. USC is castrated, Oregon’s QB is in jail or on probation, our QB is a senior (Kevin, this is your time and place, step it up!!!!), and this may be the last old school P10 season ever!

Plus, and this has nothing to do with the team, I’m moving back to the Bay Area and will be attending every home game.

But, we won’t win the conference title. I know that.
/reverse jinx, 27 years of waiting.

Suggest the following 2 Division lineup.
5 games between division opponents + traditional rival game…..(across the division). + 4 rotating games across the division. + 2 non-conference games = 12 game season.
Add 1 conference playoff for the division winners. Additional bowl game for the qualified teams.

The rotating 4 games across the division will allow each team to miss 1 different team per year. example: Cal plays all 5 division games + rival (stan.) + USC,OSU,WSU,UA.
Next year: Cal plays all 5 division games + rival (stan.) + OSU,WSU,UA,Utah missing USC.
The following year: Cal plays all 5 division games + rival (stan.) + WSU,UA,Utah,USC missing OSU.
and so on for the ensuing years. No team across the division will be missing for 2 consecutive years.

Hopefully this will insure all teams have the ability to travel to each area location (Washington, Oregon, SF bay area, LA, Arizona, either Utah or Colorado) for prospective recruits. There’s a need for all schools to visit and attract recruits from the LA – California area.

I don’t know if everyone will approve of a complete round robin (11 conference) game schedule.

Cal Stanford
UCLA USC
Oregon Oregon State
Washington Washington State
Arizona State Arizona
Colorado Utah

What do you think ???

LINK

“Thanks for your message. The rumors swirling around are premature. Although I do think that the North/South alignment as rumored is probably where we will end up, we have expressed to the Commissioner and the Executive Committee, the importance of the NoCal schools playing the SoCal schools EVERY year. Those details have yet to be worked out. Believe me, I understand the importance and will fight to maintain that tradition.

Thanks for your important feedback.

Go Bears!

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Looks to me like the Buffalos found its QB from former Pac10 country!

Mike Montgomery would be ’shocked’ if Cal split from USC, UCLA

Coach Monty hates the idea of no longer playing ucla twice in one season.

Montgomery said Thursday that he’d be “disappointed, shocked and dismayed” to only play UCLA once a year in basketball, citing nearly a century’s worth of history between the UC System’s two flagship schools. He also said he couldn’t believe the conference would consider separating USC and Cal given the football rivalry that has developed.

“It would be shocking for us not to play UCLA twice a year,” Montgomery said. “You’re talking about the University of California and UCLA. That should be a natural. There’s a tremendous rivalry there. And it would be shocking for me if Cal doesn’t play USC in football. Something’s going to have to give at some point, but I think there are some longstanding natural rivalries in this league that should be kept intact.”

Good to see coach Monty speaking out on this. We’ve mainly been talking about football, but basketball will also be affected. He’s probably thinking about recruiting too in all this since LA is by far and way the main source of Cal recruits.

The only issue I have with this writing is the reference to the UC system’s “two flagship schools.” There can only be one flagship in the system and that would be the original University of California. There’s no such thing as a double flagship.