Aye, Chip, I think I understand. It's raw, it's personal and there is no way to spin anything positive right now. I am a 3rd generation Duck and I am a Pac12 lifer. I hate this too. My most treasured road trips in our league have been Pullman, Corvallis and Tucson. LA doesn't excite me, and neither do East Lansing, Columbus, Ann Arbor.

I pray the four remaining will join forces to make to give the Mountain West gravitas it has never had and build something nobody thought possible.