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Mike Martin only has it half right
DerekJohnson
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He blames the fall of the Pac-12 on Larry Scott. The blame lies with the conference athletic directors and presidents that allowed him to remain in power for far too long. In the same manner that the 2008 disaster was Mark Emmert's fault and not Willingham's.
https://realdawghuskies.com/opinion-the-demise-of-the-conference-of-champions-was-inevitable-thanks-to-larry-scott/
https://realdawghuskies.com/opinion-the-demise-of-the-conference-of-champions-was-inevitable-thanks-to-larry-scott/
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Thanks Taft!
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Consider the source, Martin probably doesn’t want to on Cohen’s bad side by placing blame on her peers and supervisors.
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Agree 100%. Like a snake oil salesman he wheedled the presidents with all the things they wanted to hear for a decade and they lapped it up like thirsty kittens. When the former Conference of Champions is scattered to the winds all of them have no one to blame but the faces in their own mirrors. Hubris and indifference ended west coast football and the fucking B10 is the lifeline for my favorite team. A truly unforgivable offense. Cauce better take the deal if it’s presented, the Pac is dead.
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The blame lies with the conference athletic directors and presidents that allowed him to remain in power for far too long
fuck the 'let him stay too long,' they hired him. he should have said 'fuck it' and let texas bring their stupid ass longhorn network, nobody watched it (inb4 'nobody watches the p12 network either,' youve clearly never been to china) and figured it out later and set a crazy high exit clause.
i guess you cant expect too much from a guy who focused on tennis. -
He had record viewers of women’s tennis on his watch! Serena Williams probably had nothing to do with it. It was all Larry.rodmansrage said:The blame lies with the conference athletic directors and presidents that allowed him to remain in power for far too long
fuck the 'let him stay too long,' they hired him. he should have said 'fuck it' and let texas bring their stupid ass longhorn network, nobody watched it (inb4 'nobody watches the p12 network either,' youve clearly never been to china) and figured it out later and set a crazy high exit clause.
i guess you cant expect too much from a guy who focused on tennis.
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Women's tennis has always been the top female sport to attract larger audiences. Because they are really good at it.
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If I remember right the AD’s called scott out on his bs and were likely a lot of the leaks that got to canzano and Wilmer prior to his removal. The presidents on the I other hand were defending him to the end.
West coast presidents do t think football matters is what it comes down to. -
UCLA, ASU, and OSU presidents apparently vetoed efforts to remove himAtomicDawg said:If I remember right the AD’s called scott out on his bs and were likely a lot of the leaks that got to canzano and Wilmer prior to his removal. The presidents on the I other hand were defending him to the end.
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As much shit as Larry and the individual school brass deserve there's a lot of shit out of everyone's control that play a factor - mostly the changing of cultures and demographics on the west coast, especially the west coast cities. I know 20 years is a long ago but I keep picturing the crowd at the 2003 Cal USC game when Cal upset the Trojans and what it was like being at that stadium in 2022.
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This is pure conjecture so be warned that I have no idea what I'm talking about but it seems like the last 15+ years or so were a period in which college football had massive changes mostly related to money and ballooning pay packages of TV deals. Certain conferences saw the landscape changing and realized that they needed to jump in with both feet and start taking advantage of everything this new era had to offer. Conference brass combined with university presidents in the SEC and Big 10 were just way better at navigating the changes than the rest of the conferences. Not sure why but it's clear the Larry Scott and our conference presidents just didn't have the sense of urgency that the Big 10 and SEC had.
Big 10 and SEC jumped out to a early and sizable lead and just kept leveraging their position to gain a bigger and bigger advantage. It probably helped that those conferences were the most relevant from the standpoint of the quality of their teams over the last 15 years as well. The Pac 12 was fucking abysmal during that period. ESPN and the like didn't really "need" the Pac 12 and they still don't.
