Should Oregon Seek Membership Outside Pac-12_

Should Oregon Football seek membership outside Pac-12?

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00:00 According to reports, Nike co-founder and Organ booster Phil Knight wants the Ducks

00:04 to seek membership in the Big Ten conference.

00:08 This of course follows USC and UCLA announcing their move to the Big Ten last week.

00:13 I'm Claudette Montana-Pattison with SI right now and joining me is Max Torres of Ducks

00:18 Digest.

00:19 Max, given all of the uncertainty within the Pac-12 conference right now, it seems like

00:24 it would be a good idea for Organ to really consider all of their options.

00:29 Would you agree?

00:30 Yeah, I would absolutely agree with that, Claudette.

00:32 I think this is obviously such a huge moment in the direction of college athletics, particularly

00:38 in college football, and that is absolutely Organ's marquee sport, I would say.

00:43 And just given the direction of the program, especially after how they've really dominated

00:49 the Pac-12 in the past four or five years, obviously you had Utah win their first conference

00:53 title last year, but Organ has really established themselves as pretty much that premier football

00:59 brand in the Pac-12, especially now that USC is on their way to Big Ten country.

01:04 So I think after winning multiple conference titles, winning that Rose Bowl under Mario

01:10 Cristobal, I think that Organ absolutely has proved they deserve a seat at the table with

01:15 the big boys of the sport, and all options have to be on the table.

01:19 Right now it looks like Big Ten, maybe the Big 12, heck, you're even seeing people talk

01:23 SEC, ACC.

01:26 It's a really interesting situation for Organ because you don't want to wait too long to

01:29 make a decision and risk getting left out of being in the haves and the have-nots in

01:35 college football.

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