USC's reasons for leaving the Conference of Champions aren't complicated

DerekJohnson

https://duckswire.usatoday.com/2022/07/08/uscs-reasons-for-leaving-the-conference-of-champions-arent-complicated/

PurpleThrobber

I need to find a career opportunity in which I am utterly incompetent and walk away with millions of dollars ala Larry Scott

LawDawg1

not defending Larry Scott, I just wouldn’t. But I recall a time everyone praised him for having the largest media contract in college football. And aren’t we about to renegotiate the contract? Seems to me the new price is going to be low because the Pac 12 networks suck, sure, and no Direct TV, sure, but also the product on the field and lacking fan support too.

NoWarningJustDawg

JFC.

"Larry Scott simply devalued the Pac-12 so much that USC didn’t have much of a choice."

They actually like it was some heroic move on USC's part. Larry was shit at his job, but I'd say UCLA's and especially USC's general shittiness and incompetence at football and coach hiring for more than a decade is a significantly larger reason.
Basically, they trashed the value themselves, with an assist from a guy the presidents supported just a couple years ago, and then left.
Fuck off with this grandiose No Choice But To Leave! nonsense.

Cheers--

DerekJohnson

Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't understand why USC and UCLA couldn't have at least shown some loyalty by giving the other schools a head's up on what they were planning. I don't think public sentiment would have stopped them from leaving. Unless they were afraid of some congressman trying to make a name for themselves by passing some retarded bill to force them to stay.

Joey

UCLA needed the money. Their rival took pity on them.

haie

1. P12N the worst business idea in history of sport.
2. Presidents (beavlet and demonlet) kept Scott for a decade.
3. SC was mediocre except for 2 seasons. Stanford and Oregon the two best teams ngafa.
4. SC/UCLA/UW/0 getting equal share if revenue with the little cuoglets if the poor.
5. Covid decisions.

In that order of biggest factors.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

haie said:

1. P12N the worst business idea in history of sport.
2. Presidents (beavlet and demonlet) kept Scott for a decade.
3. SC was mediocre except for 2 seasons. Stanford and Oregon the two best teams ngafa.
4. SC/UCLA/UW/0 getting equal share if revenue with the little cuoglets if the poor.
5. Covid decisions.

In that order of biggest factors.

It’s not just that Stanford & Oregon we’re the best 2 teams, other than Oregon losing in the CFB playoff, neither team threatened to win it all and cause enough people to pay attention to the PAC.

gmo

DerekJohnson said:

Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't understand why USC and UCLA couldn't have at least shown some loyalty by giving the other schools a head's up on what they were planning. I don't think public sentiment would have stopped them from leaving. Unless they were afraid of some congressman trying to make a name for themselves by passing some retarded bill to force them to stay.

I would suspect you nailed it... too much risk there, especially the buffoonery running many of the other schools involved (cough Jen) so much money on the line couldn't trust they wouldn't find a way to fuck it up like they do just about everything else they touch.

MikeDamone

LawDawg1 said:

not defending Larry Scott, I just wouldn’t. But I recall a time everyone praised him for having the largest media contract in college football. And aren’t we about to renegotiate the contract? Seems to me the new price is going to be low because the Pac 12 networks suck, sure, and no Direct TV, sure, but also the product on the field and lacking fan support too.

We?

creepycoug

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

haie said:

1. P12N the worst business idea in history of sport.
2. Presidents (beavlet and demonlet) kept Scott for a decade.
3. SC was mediocre except for 2 seasons. Stanford and Oregon the two best teams ngafa.
4. SC/UCLA/UW/0 getting equal share if revenue with the little cuoglets if the poor.
5. Covid decisions.

In that order of biggest factors.

It’s not just that Stanford & Oregon we’re the best 2 teams, other than Oregon losing in the CFB playoff, neither team threatened to win it all and cause enough people to pay attention to the PAC.

There have been some games of note for both Washington and Oregon, but you're right, it's been a while since the Pac has gotten over the hump.

TXDawg

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HoustonHusky

TLDR but if they are blaming Scott for leaving they truly suck at life...USC's AD was a huge Larry Scott defender and rumor has it helped to keep him in place well after he should have been fired. Why does everything related to California just suck at life?