introduction that I'm recording, but the first you'll hear of an emergency episode of

Andy Staples on three. We recorded an episode when Oregon and Washington were definitely

headed at the Big Ten.

We weren't quite sure yet was going to happen in the rest of the Pact 12.

We're pretty sure Arizona State and Utah were considering going to the Big 12.

We were pretty sure Arizona was going to go to the Big 12, but we weren't entirely sure when all that was going to happen.

Well, Pete Thammo from ESPN reported right as we were uploading this podcast that Arizona State and Utah are applying for membership to the Big 12.

And so it looks like Arizona, Arizona State, Utah will be in the Big 12, Oregon and Washington

will be in the Big 10, Washington State will be in the big 10 Washington state Oregon

State Cal and Stanford at the moment screwed that's where you're at the pack 12 long storyed

history it's basically done what happens next there we'll find out maybe Cal and Stanford can potentially rustle up an invitation to the Big Ten down the road.

But right now, it looks like a merger with the Mountain West might be the best move.

And then you see what happens next.

But just a spectacular fall for this conference

and a spectacular botching of the job

by the leaders of the conference,

the presidents, Commissioner George Kleevkov,

were not that far away from George Kleevkov

saying he had bigger fish to fry

than worrying about schools leaving.

This league is now down to four schools. And it's a new day in the Big Ten. We didn't know when they'd want to expand

again after grabbing USC and UCLA. The thought was they didn't want more West Coast competition

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