What Happens to Cal and Stanford as the Pac-12 Collapses?

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Last year, UCLA and USC announced their coming departure from the historic college sports conference of the West Coast: the Pac-12. Last week, the Pac-12 further disintegrated, with Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah all announcing that they are moving to other conferences. TV money drove this consolidation, and it has left Cal and Stanford fans, alumni and athletes wondering about their schools’ future. We talk about the history of the conference and what comes next for California’s college sports. Guests: Joel Anderson, staff writer, Slate - where he also hosts the Slow Burn and Hang Up and Listen podcasts. Former reporter on sports, culture, and politics for ESPN and BuzzFeed News. Marisa Ingemi, sports writer, San Francisco Chronicle Ray Ratto, staff writer, The Defector - Former sportswriter and columnist, San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.1	Jackie Robinson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jackie Joyner, Kersi, Alex Morgan, John Elway, Aaron
0:55.4	Rogers.
0:56.8	Those are just some of the athletic luminaries who have competed in the PAC 12.
1:01.3	Dubbed the Conference of Champions, the PAC 12 has won more national championships than any
1:05.0	other league.
1:06.2	But that storied history started to fall apart last year after USC and UCLA said they would leave for the
1:11.4	Big Ten, then Colorado bolted for the Big 12, sparking a mass exodus Friday of five more schools.
1:17.8	Now Cal, Stanford, Oregon State, and Washington State face an uncertain future.
1:22.7	Coming up on Forum, we look at what drove these dramatic developments and what they mean
1:26.4	for college sports in California. Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. It's hard to imagine West Coast Sports without a
1:40.7	pack 12, but that's what college athletes, their athletic departments, and diehard fans
1:45.8	are absorbing. Only four schools remain in the more than century-old Conference of Champions,
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