PAC 12 Rejection and Gonzaga's Conference Shift Update

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00:00The Pac-12 is trying to put themselves back together.

00:06Now there's two pieces to this story.

00:08The first part is that Memphis, USF, UTSA, and Tulane, the four teams from the American

00:17Conference that the Pac-12 was hoping would join all of the new teams that they just put

00:23in there.

00:24They have declined, Scotty.

00:25They put out a big statement about an hour ago saying that they are staying in the American

00:28Athletic Conference.

00:29They are not joining the Pac-12.

00:31They are not going.

00:32Thank God.

00:33You know what?

00:34Honestly, I am on the other side of the river.

00:40I don't want any of those.

00:44To me, those are frankly colleges in terms of football that don't matter or basketball.

00:50They don't matter.

00:51Memphis cheats in basketball like no other.

00:54They have cheated since I've been in my mother's womb in basketball.

00:57They're in trouble now.

00:59They need better teams from the West Coast.

01:02They don't need a bunch of teams from Graceland and New Orleans playing.

01:08The Big Ten having all these West Coast teams coming to the Big Ten, it's just a pain in

01:13the ass.

01:14I get it.

01:15Lights, camera, action.

01:16USC, Michigan.

01:17It works.

01:18But the travel is a pain in the ass.

01:19I don't want Memphis playing San Diego State in basketball and frankly in football either.

01:28I don't want those schools in that conference.

01:30They have to be smarter than having those teams.

01:33Obviously, they're not, Mike.

01:35They wanted them.

01:36They wanted those four teams.

01:37They wanted them.

01:38It's garbage.

01:39They wanted them.

01:40This was them really saying no to the Pac-12, not the other way around.

01:44The Pac-12 wanted those teams in, and they are not going.

01:48Twenty minutes after that, this piece of news got out into the world from Brett McMurphy

01:54that Gonzaga is going to leave the West Coast Conference to join the Pac-12.

01:59Now, obviously, they are not a football school, so the Pac-12 is still going to have to dig

02:04up two other schools by 2026 to make it eight for football.

02:09But we have heard, obviously, Scotty, let's be fair, for 30 years, people have been saying,

02:15when is Gonzaga going to leave that West Coast Conference and join a bigger conference

02:20in basketball with what a power that they are, Mark Few, et cetera.

02:23Well, it looks like reports are saying that that is going to happen, that Pac-12, they

02:28will go to the Pac-12, Gonzaga.

02:30Well, you know, what about this?

02:34St. Mary's is great in basketball.

02:36Why don't they join as well for basketball?

02:38And then they got a really good basketball conference again, and then in football, just

02:42get it over with.

02:44UNLV in Nevada, be done with it.

02:46Now, listen, Nevada, you can say whatever you want, but Tahoe rocks.

02:51You know it. I know it.

02:52Mavi and I had so much fun in Tahoe.

02:54They told us, never come back.

02:57We're done with you two mooching off of us.

03:00I showed up at the event with 12 hookers at the sportsbook for the first four days of

03:07the NCAA basketball tournament.

03:09That was my last trip to Reno.

03:11But I have all the photos to prove it.

03:12It was fantastic.

03:13Listen, they're a good basketball school.

03:16They're averaging football, but they're not the worst.

03:18And UNLV's on the up.

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