A day after leaving behind more than a century as a tenant to the premier athletic conference on the West Coast, Washington’s leadership said stability was at the forefront of its decision to join the Big Ten Conference.
“It was about having a future that we could count on and build toward,” Washington President Ana Mari Cauce said Saturday.
The decision by those founding members to leave in lockstep was the first of two crippling blows to the Pac-12 on Friday that left the conference on the precipice of collapse. Utah, Arizona and Arizona State accpeted offers from the Big 12 later Friday, following Colorado’s move late last month. “There are a lot of forces at work including the overlords of the media empires that are out there that were driving a lot of this,” Arizona State President Michael Crow said Saturday. “And so the Colorado departure was really an indication of the fact that there was great instability in the media market and it created an unstable moment.”
Washington and Oregon will now play in a league where its closest opponent — minus Southern California and UCLA — is Nebraska, a drive of more than 1,600 miles. The Huskies and Ducks will be playing league games in all sports in State College, Pennsylvania; College Park, Maryland; and Bloomington, Indiana.
Washington athletic director Jen Cohen acknowledged the increased travel will be a significant burden. Aside from a five-year span in the late 1950s/early 1960s, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington and Washington State have competed in the same conference dating to 1918.
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