The UA is going to the Big 12. That's for certain. But in terms of most everything else related to the school's seemingly hasty exit from the 108-year-old Pac-12, the dust is hardly settled.
That much is clear.
But in terms of most everything else related to the UA’s seemingly hasty exit from the 108-year-old Pac-12 — the westernmost “power” college sports conference served as the athletic home for both Arizona and ASU for the last 45 years — the dust is hardly settled. Clarity on many fronts will likely occur in the coming months. But in the hours after confirmation from the official channels, a similarly varying degree of perspectives spilled out onto social media from current and former athletes, coaches and others tied to the UA and other Pac-12 schools.
“The conference I grew up watching as a kid from Tucson is no more,” he said, also via Twitter. “Never thought I’d see the day when the block 'A' sat next to a different conference logo.Jake Fischer, who starred at Ironwood Ridge in Oro Valley before playing four years as a linebacker for the UA football program, countered with excitement.
“Pac-12 after dark will be missed, but never forgotten. I’m all about forward progression,” he added. Corey Williams is a former Wildcat men’s basketball player who, after his graduation from the UA in 1996, played 12 years professionally overseas before returning to Southern Arizona. He’s been part of college basketball broadcasts for ESPN, Fox Sports and Pac-12 Networks for more than a decade.
Speaking to local media after a practice Friday morning, Arizona football coach Jedd Fisch said conference realignment brings new experiences to the athletes on his team. “Has anybody thought about the repercussions that conference realignments have on student athletes’ quality of life?” Terra McGowan asked on Twitter.
ASU sophomore catcher Shannon Cunningham, originally from Tustin, California, echoed those sentiments in her own Tweet.
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