Conference Realignment: Real Truth Is the PAC-10 Is the Biggest Loser

You heard it here first.  The first inklings of a move to the Real Truth in sports.  The Real Truth being that Pacific does not rhyme with Texas.   The Real Truth is that in the end, the most important part of a conference are the brands of the teams involved.  While Colorado went (see picture above during press conference), the biggest brand of all is staying pat.

Once the whiners from Nebraska and the opportunists from Colorado were done, the alumni had spoken, and Stallings had his days in the sun, the Real Truth emerged.  Not the hideous speculation.  Not the joyous rapture.  And certainly not the End of Days or even the End of Big 12 (at least the remaining 10).  Not the Hollywood imaginings or the West Coast shuffle.  The reality of Pacific Coast time and the lack of any unifying similarities of the West Coast liberals and Texas conservatives.  No.  Texas is not at all like Berkley.  Imagine.  One writer made that claim!

In the end, we have no rendering asunder of the ACC, nor any more than visits by officials from other leagues.

What we have is a pause in the action.

Will everything sort itself out.  Will apparent rejection of the PAC-10 guarantee no SEC?  Not by a long shot.

But what is clear is that Texas including the rest of the state, reigns sufficiently supreme to make letting another league dominated by Southerners or Westerners far to unpalatable.  Leaving aside the absurdity of Texas versus Oklahoma under a Pacific banner.

So what was all of this?  Was it really necessary to highlight everything?  Was driving everything public appropriate?  In the end, was this nothing but a slap in the face of USC and its underlings?

Hard to see or say.  We will probably never know.  What we do know is that the Pac-10 is the biggest loser.  And that will not help, in the face of the recruiting atrocities of USC. 

Not a pretty picture for the Pac-11.  No sir.  Not pretty at all.