The Pac-12 Conference will never be what it once was even after the efforts to rebuild it.
“I never thought I'd see the Pac-12 fall apart,” Oregon State coach Wayne Tinkle said. “I mean, what a freakin' shame that is, but we are where we are.”
That could be taken figuratively and literally.
Tinkle was speaking at the recent West Coast Conference basketball media days, something that once would have been a curious stop for a Beavers coach. But with Oregon State and Washington State the only two Pac-12 schools remaining after a mass defection scattered 10 schools to other conferences, these are unusual times.