Report: Washington meeting with Big Ten Conference

The College of Washington is reportedly assembly with the Huge Ten Convention about attainable convention realignment.

Per Brett McMurphy of the Motion Community, Washington is having preliminary discussions with the Huge Ten concerning the potential of becoming a member of the convention. The assembly didn’t contain college presidents or Huge Ten commissioner Kevin Warren, per the report. It was performed with legal professionals and consultants for each teams.

The conferences for Washington come every week after McMurphy reported the convention had comparable discussions with the College of Oregon. McMurphy has additionally reported that the Huge Ten remains to be looking for so as to add to its footprint with Washington, Oregon, Stanford, Cal and Notre Dame as prime targets.

The Huge Ten made an enormous play earlier this summer time in convincing USC and UCLA to depart the Pac-12 and be a part of the convention starting in 2024. Whereas UCLA’s departure is being contested by the College of California regents, the transfer has the Pac-12 and its member establishments reeling. The lack of USC and UCLA will probably be a monetary blow to the remaining 10 members of the convention. The Pac-12 Community has fallen nicely wanting producing the anticipated revenues anticipated when it launched in 2012.

The Pac-12 has additionally fallen behind its opponents in nationwide relevance for soccer as no convention member has made the faculty soccer playoff since Washington in 2016-17. Oregon is the one different Pac-12 member to make the playoff in its present format. They had been chosen to the playoff in its first iteration in 2014-15. Solely two of the 32 groups to play within the playoff within the final eight years have been from the Pac-12.

Oregon and Washington at the very least seem like kicking the tires on following their Los Angeles cohorts east to the Huge Ten.