Would Hawaii be a good choice if the Pac 10 went to 12, along with say Colorado?

I think they would, they fit in cultural and is a pretty liberal state. Fits the Pac 10 to a T. Also they play alot of Pac 10 schools in other sports.

Pac 10
North
Colorado
Hawaii
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State

South
Arizona
Arizona State
California
Stanford
UCLA
USC

Search through the general PAC 10 realignment threads. That exact combo has been discussed before and I think the consensus was the costs associated with making Hawaii a member outweighed any financial assets they might bring.

Hawaii is way in Pacific and cost much money for sports travel. The WAC works for them.
Colorado is Big 12 and fits with them. Going all way west coast could be travel trouble.
What PAC 10 needs is Utah. For the other BYU.

I think Utah + BYU makes more sense for the Pac 10.

Also, forget any thoughts that the conference would change its name to the Pac 12. It's the same with the Big 10.

I dunno....

They were the PAC-8 before the addition of Arizona and ASU. It would be interesting to know if anyone has registered the name PAC-12. That would tell a lot, regarding any future names.

The Big 10 (or Ten) is somewhat in conflict on naming rights with the Big XII. I beleive the Big XII owns the rights to the name Big 12 and even Big 14 (they had the foresight to cover the bases, regarding future expansion).

I honestly believe the Big 10 never espected to be 11 for very long. I think the plan was to pull in PSU and Notre Dame. They caught PSU on the rebound after being rebuffed on Paterno's proposed Eastern Conference, and later rebuffed on joining the Big East.

I think many at Notre Dame (those in initial discussions with the Big Ten in 1998-9) were in favor of joining, but it got shot down as it moved up the ladder at ND. I see a day when their football team loses it's aura (it already has with a lot of people), and the financial lure of independence (a big TV contract with NBC) fades away. May not happen soon, but eventually the fans of the game will be too young to remember when ND was truly elite. At that time, ND may rethink conference membership.

As has been stated earlier by another, there is somewhat of a "national cultural component" to the term "Big Ten" (i.e. "Big Ten" primaries) that the Pac-10 doesn't really have...

http://bigten.collegesports.com/

a) The Home Depot Center seats 25 - 27k.

b) Check with more knowledgable authorities but I was under the impression that if there ever were to be divisions you'd be hard pressed to split the California schools.

c) Adding Hawaii and UNLV won't add enough money to the PAC 10 coffers to offset the new payouts.

Group 1:
Cal
Stanford
UCLA
USC
UAZ
AZSU

Group 2:
UWA
WASU
UOU
OUSU
UUT
BYU

What has all this discussion to do with Pac-10 expansion?