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00:00Do you really? I never thought it should have, uh, you know, broken up. I seriously, I thought
00:08it was a great conference. Maybe they had bad decision, bad people running it. Who knows?
00:15I never thought it should have ended. And I think that they're trying to save it is
00:19a good thing. And I loved it. You didn't like watching those basketball games and the West
00:26really was rooting hard for the PAC 12 to remain together. I understood why USC and
00:31UCLA left with the opportunity they had to make the money they would make and to compete
00:35at the level that the big 10 will compete with the SEC, et cetera. I understood that
00:40I, after that I was hopeful that the PAC 12 would survive, but Scott, they did it to themselves.
00:47At that point, their, their contract was worth X number of dollars and they asked for X plus
00:53and they stood firm at X plus and it, and it backfired on them because the ESPN said,
00:59okay, we'll just go sign up the big 12 instead. And you guys can do whatever you want to do.
01:05And then there was no one left to bid for them. Uh, the, at that point, uh, Fox wasn't
01:09interested and there were only so many players in this market. The only other player at that
01:13point was Apple, which meant going entirely online and the money would have been sufficient,
01:18but they felt skeptical about whether they'd be able to recruit in an entirely online world,
01:24an entirely, uh, streaming world. And so they bopped at that. And then before long, uh,
01:31you saw Oregon and Washington peel off to the big 10. And then it was pretty much over.