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Pulled-apart Pac-12 leaves men’s soccer and women’s lacrosse programs hanging

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Shifting sands of realignment puts the strain of potentially finding new conference homes for two programs on the docket for SDSU Athletics

by Eric Evelhoch, Sports Editor • September 21, 2023

The shredding of an over a century-old sports conference has had a clear culprit: the pursuit of higher profits from football broadcasting rights contracts, distributed across the conference member institutions.

Lost among the chaos as the Pac-12 has been cleaved away by the Big Ten and Big 12, with the Atlantic Coast Conference having taken a final slice, is how it will impact each school’s other teams.