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Walnut Creek, California -- Colorado State University and Bringham Young University have accepted invites to join the Pac-12 conference beginning in 2013. "Those two fine insitutions are a wonderful addition to the Conference of Champions" remarked Pac-12 commisioner Larry Scott in a teleconference announcing the newest additions to the Pac-12 after they added the University of Colorado and University of Utah in 2011. Asked whether there will be two more teams down the road to make it a 16 team conference, Scott was noncommital due to the desire of the four "Mountain" schools which includes Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah to keep in contact with their west coast based alumni groups. In the meantime, the conference will most likely go to a "zipper" format where each rivalry pair is split up and put in seperate divisions but with the ability to have cross over games against their natural rivals.
The addition of the Latter Day Saints affilated college in Bringham Young University sparked massive protests at the four California campuses of the Pac-12 conference due to the controvestial issues surrounding Proposition 8 which outlawed same sex marriage in the state of California until the courts overturned that ban. One source from one of those California schools was quoted as having a strong desire to get to 16 teams so the former Pac-8 schools will have their own division and BYU would be in the other division. Another California source blamed the expansion on the Colorado-Utah rivalry taking more time to develop than Scott would have liked. Another Pac-8 source chimed in that there was renewed talk about the Pac-8 schools splitting off from the Mountain schools to form their own conference but that source was reminded about the Pac-12 bylaws which states that the conference holds the media rights of every school memeber until 2024 so a move like that is highly unlikely.
For more on the story, check www.denverpost.com/college
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The addition of the Latter Day Saints affilated college in Bringham Young University sparked massive protests at the four California campuses of the Pac-12 conference due to the controvestial issues surrounding Proposition 8 which outlawed same sex marriage in the state of California until the courts overturned that ban. One source from one of those California schools was quoted as having a strong desire to get to 16 teams so the former Pac-8 schools will have their own division and BYU would be in the other division. Another California source blamed the expansion on the Colorado-Utah rivalry taking more time to develop than Scott would have liked. Another Pac-8 source chimed in that there was renewed talk about the Pac-8 schools splitting off from the Mountain schools to form their own conference but that source was reminded about the Pac-12 bylaws which states that the conference holds the media rights of every school memeber until 2024 so a move like that is highly unlikely.
For more on the story, check www.denverpost.com/college
YOU GOT RICK ROLL'D!!!
