Weekend Open Thread | 2021.08.21

There’s an open scrimmage at 2:00 p.m. today and I really hope that the post-practice interviews are posted so that I have something to write about tomorrow. I’m not holding my breath at this point.

If you’re looking for good news regarding conference realignment, The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Mark Anderson writes that the Pac-12 Commissioner is open to expanding:

Review-Journal: Is there anything you can tell us about realignment and its impact on the Pac-12?

Kliavkoff: “I think we’re really, really happy with the 12 that we have in the league. The opportunity to revisit that following Texas and Oklahoma has certainly presented itself. I am not actively poaching any school or convincing anyone to leave their existing conference, but I wouldn’t be doing my job if I wasn’t listening to schools that wanted to go in the Pac-12, and we’ve had a lot of them reach out. Probably all of the ones you would expect and several you’d be surprised by.

“We have taken initial meetings with everyone that has expressed an interest. We have a working group … who are together deciding on what to recommend … At the end of the day, they’ll make the decision about whether or not to offer admission to the Pac-12 to any other schools.”

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