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Twitter reaction to Arizona joining Big 12 as Pac-12 shrinks to four schools

matt wadleigh
·4 min read

In late July, we told you that if the Arizona schools left the Pac-12, that was the ballgame. It’s true that Oregon and Washington left the Pac-12 on Friday, but they left because they could see the conference was crumbling, in part because Arizona was almost out the door and Arizona State wasn’t far behind.

Now it’s official: Arizona is moving to the Big 12. The Pac-12 has four schools left: Stanford, Cal, Oregon State and Washington State.

We noted that the “Arizona schools need to have a presence in Texas, not just California, for recruiting. Arizona State football, under former coach Todd Graham a decade ago, made it a point to recruit the state of Texas. The Arizona schools would not be out of place in the Texas-anchored Big 12 (which has several schools in the state). USC in the Big Ten is a weird geographical reality, but the Arizona schools in the Big 12 would feel relatively natural by comparison.”

Now they’re in the Big 12.

X, formerly known as Twitter, was the place to be when these extraordinary events became official on a Friday we will remember for a long time.

Here we go:

DONE AND DUSTED

NOT ARIZONA'S FAULT

YES

BIG 12 HOOPS SUPERPOWERS

SUSTAINED MATCHUP

KINDA SORTA, BUT NOT REALLY

YEP

NOTABLE

DIFFERENT

DONE DEAL

FAREWELL

BEAR DOWN

ALL EYES ON WAZZU AND OREGON STATE

WALTON'S LAMENT

TERRITORIAL SHIFT

OVER 100 YEARS

CONFERENCE OF DEATH

SUPERHOOPS

SHOWCASE

CRAZY

MAYBE

LOADED

OFFICIAL

Story originally appeared on Trojans Wire