Why Did The Pac Move First In Forging Super Conferences?

Over the past couple of days, I have had 3 ACC fans and 1 SEC fan ask me why the Pac 10, rather than the Big Ten, made the first move in this war against the current conference arrangements. After all, it was the Big Ten that announced what was impending.

Many obvious truths are missed by people precisely because they are obvious, at least obvious to anyone who knows some history.

The Big Ten and the Pac 10 are working together, for the same goal: their joint control of college football.

As noted above, history helps in grasping that. 

The Rose Bowl is the Granddaddy of them all. It was the first bowl, and it remained most prestigious in the eyes of college football fans nationwide. It matched a team from the Pacific, a region that then seemed to most Americans almost as far away as Japan, against the best team from the 'East' that the Rose committee could land. In the early decades of the Rose Bowl, visitors from back east included: Notre Dame, Alabama, Georgia Tech, Duke, Pitt, SMU, Tennessee, and Georgia, as well as Ivy League schools. 

And then the Rose Bowl was closed. For no reason that had to do with quality of competition or finances (the Rose Bowl was the biggest and most profitable bowl with the most media coverage), the Rose became a permanent matchup between the Pac and the midwestern Big Ten. 

That move, which was a marriage between the incredibly powerful West coast media and the conference that had the most political power and media clout east of CA, was made in an attempt to profit two leagues by ending competition. If the Rose was the biggest, the Big Ten demanded to have it by itself, allowing no one else a shot at the game.

The Big Ten decided early on in regard to Notre Dame that if it can't beat you as it wishes, it will act to keep you from competing. That is what the closing of the Rose Bowl was. And that is the Big Ten's plan regarding Notre Dame now should it refuse to be buffaloed into the Big Ten 

The leopard cannot change its spots.

The current moves are merely an updating of the closing of the Rose Bowl. It is about the Big Ten as top and the Pac as its bottom acting jointly to rearrange the college sports landscape so that they control it. The master plan is to control media from NYC across to Chicago, and down to Dallas and across to Hollywood and up to Seattle.

To achieve that goal, two BCS conferences, the Big 12 and the BE, have to be obliterated.

The Pac acted first as the bottom taking heat away from the top. It would begin wooing Colorado in earnest and discussing a plan to add all Big 12 South schools but Baylor (a church related school is not welcome in the Pac). The Big Ten would complete the demolition of the Big 12 by taking Nebraska and probably Missouri.

If the Big Ten plan comes to fruition, with the Pac landing Texas, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma and the Big Ten browbeating Notre Dame into joining and then taking Missouri and Rutgers and Syracuse (to control NYC), college football will never be the same, and not for the better. 

It will be the closing of the Rose Bowl times 100.