Why aren't we hearing a peep out of the PAC 12

Simple...PAC 12 football must be irrelevant even to players, parents, fans, and alumni.  We already knew it was to the media (ESPN anyway).

It's political, there's not a political party bothering to support resistance to shutdowns out west because those aren't swing states save for Arizona which looks really blue this time around.

Like it or not, politicians are using and manipulating players and their parents on this issue.

Traditional powers in the PAC 12 are down. Plus out west you can go hiking, skiing, smoke weed, or go to the beach. OSU fans literally have no other reason to get out of bed in the morning if there isn’t football. 

Outside of the political atmosphere being entirely different, the PAC-12 came out and released a detailed description of the decision, how they came to the decision, and what factored into the final decision.  Conversely, the B1G decided to release nothing, wait a week and have a press conference releasing nothing more, and is now finally going to release what the PAC-12 released from the beginning due to a lawsuit by Nebraska players.  

Setting politics aside, the PAC-12 was transparent, and three weeks later the B1G is now being forced to do what the PAC-12 was smart enough to do from the start of all of this.  

Everyone is saying politics but OPs question seems to be getting at before the President made it political in the Big Ten. It does seem like you haven't heard much protest from players, parents, or fans. Maybe just general apathy toward Pac12 football? It does seem quiet over there. Maybe it's more #Pac12ProtestsAfterDark and we haven't gotten used to staying up to 1 am again to watch

There are some who lead, some who follow, and some who get out of the way. The Pac 12 follows.

The population centers in Washington are progressive and are generally accepting that we fucked up as a country and have to pay penance now. Mask compliance is excellent around Seattle and our state's rolling two week average of new cases is consistently falling.

The centers of narcissism in the eastern part of the state got whacked hard by the virus a couple months ago after a bunch of maskless protests and general dumbassery. They learned the hard way, and the remaining hot spots in the state are in eastern counties.

I can tell you that the football fans here are no less passionate or numerous that in the midwest. Washington is split between Husky and Cougar fans, much like the Wolverine/Spartan split in Michigan. Those two teams play on rivalry weekend and it's a big, big deal.

My buddy, a life-long Husky fan and 40 year season ticket holder, and I have been waiting for this Saturday for YEARS. We had a stupid human bet riding on the outcome of the game. We are bitterly disappointed that the game is cancelled. And we also aren't out bitching and complaining and spreading the virus and protesting over a game while people are dying.

Even if the B1G starts in October or November I doubt the PAC 12 will join us. So this pie in the sky of having a Rose Bowl game and other bowl games in the winter or spring will not happen. It just be a B1G champion while the National Champion already had won during the playoffs. But I have my doubts the B1G season will start his fall, winter or spring.

1) They were far more transparent and open about what they were planning to do and why.

2) The conference is already preparing to move on from Larry Scott, the idea he could wrangle them into doing something the member schools didn't want to do is laughable.

It is really simple, Sir Yacht doesn't yet cover the PAC 12

You guys are bagging on the president for wanting football..but totally cool if the parents want the same thing...keep on keepin on MgoAntifa

They are a little more chill on the West Coast

Seattle resident here.

People are generally more concerned with the systematic mistreatment of black people at the moment out here.

One word

All part of the plan to buy Clay Helton another year. 

I thought this was an apolitical board.