I promise you, the Pac-12 exists. There are teams over here and they play on a rectangular court with ten foot baskets in arenas with an orange ball and ten players – five per team. Yes, while you’re sleeping over there, these teams play and play well. And let me get this out of the way: I’m not an apologist or fan of all twelve squads. I hate Arizona State and I’m not particularly fond of Oregon or USC all the time. But I’m also not happy with the also-ran reputation of The Conference of Champions (thankfully Larry Scott isn’t either) and can respect – to a high degree – what any one of these programs is doing. And for that, I want to talk about it.

So here’s what pachoops will bring: commentary, analysis, passion, objective opinions, biased opinions, the heat. You’re going to bring: big love, big hate, comments, guest blogging (seriously shoot me an email), the heat. Grab a sweat rag, let’s do this.