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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,556 Founders Club
    I stopped following basketball that closely but is Arizona in 98 or so our? last national champ?

    USC back to back in 03 and 04 in football and blew the three pete carroll just like the HAWKS blew the repeat. Sorry

    Oregon had two shots at the title and UW got a play off berth

    That is pretty sad

    It has actually got worse since 2016
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,231

    I stopped following basketball that closely but is Arizona in 98 or so our? last national champ?

    USC back to back in 03 and 04 in football and blew the three pete carroll just like the HAWKS blew the repeat. Sorry

    Oregon had two shots at the title and UW got a play off berth

    That is pretty sad

    It has actually got worse since 2016

    Yep ... Arizona last to win in men’s hoops in 1997.

    Basketball has probably been hurt more by the media deals than any other given so many games on the P12 Network that nobody has access to.

    The thing that needs to be solved from a football standpoint is that the top programs in the P12 need to be able to have a slightly better national recruiting ability than we presently do. Right now the recruits leaving the area are not being replaced by comparable players we are bringing in from outside of the footprint
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,231
    Bob_C said:

    Tequilla said:

    He gets the problem ... can he fix the perception?
    Step one should be to put Pac12 championship game as home game for someone. It’s a terrible look to have it half full on tv.
    I like the idea of the game being in Vegas for a number of reasons

    But to get people to come you have to help people out ...

    1) Get airlines (Alaska) to run additional flights to/from Vegas to get fans to the game reasonably ... gouging prices with limited supply available doesn’t help

    2) Partner with hotels to make sure that lodging is at a reasonable price ... you want the fans there to buy food, go to events, and lose money at the tables

    If you can’t find a way to get everybody there then you have to move it on campus. The P12 has a geography problem in that it’s not super easy to drive to a centrally located championship game
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,556 Founders Club
    Vegas works for USC because LA folks are used to the trip either driving or one of the many flights. Same for the desert schools. Could turn into a South Division home field. Utah is close as well
  • rodmansrage
    rodmansrage Member Posts: 6,426

    Yep the Friday night thing screams small time

    friday night fuckin around with bay area traffic was fs.