Larry Scott, destroyer of the Pac-12, wants to be commissioner of the LPGA
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Another league no one cares about
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His relationships with China are a massive selling point
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Disappointing. Annika should know better.
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I'll never understand people who fail on such grand stages will continue to get big opportunities. Not only did he fail miserable and play a big part in destroying the Pac, he was publicly shown to be wasting massive funds on luxurious lifestyle shit for himself. Didn't he have a press conference or a meeting which everyone thought was going to be about getting a contract with DirecTV and it was instead him playfully announcing his extension?
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It’s a perfect time for grifters to push in their chips.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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As throbber would say swing him.
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I am become death, destroyer of conferences.
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ASU, Stanford, and Oregon State destroyed the Pac 12.
There's a million Larry Scott's out there.
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No. That was USC deciding to suck at football post Pete Caroll.
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Michigan was shit for years and even mediocre under Harbaugh. The B1G did not treat them as some equal member to Purdue and then go invite Memphis/Tulane and then put them in Michigan/OSU's division to try and use everybody else's money to go grow them into a "Power 5" school.
By the way, the situation was so fucked that an episode of Baller's predicted most of this in 2017/18 w USC. Covid made it all happen sooner than it was going to.
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The narrative that Larry killed the conference is overplayed. He certainly played a part but a lot of other things went into it. UW being terrible or at best mediocre for almost 15 years didn't help.
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Scott was in charge. Nobody wants to hold anyone accountable for anything
He blew the expansion and the TV deal
That was pretty much his job
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And the real people in charge couldn't fire him because 3 of their members refused to via their vote.
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Real people in charge
Right
Like I said
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"You can't flag a moderator's post, even when he has no clue about the requirements to fire a Pac 12 conference commissioner"
This was all well documented by Wilner, including the 3 schools that disagreed with the other 9, after it was obvious that there would never be a DTV deal and that the P12N would only keep dwindling the conference money compared to the B1G.
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Nothing could be done
The other leagues did but still
The expansion was botched leading to the TV deal being botched and Larry was in charge of both
like I said no one is ever held responsible for anything. Like losing a great coach
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The Pac 12 presidents at any time could've said, "No, we don't think that showing 7 channels of Olympic sports and fully funding that ourselves is a good idea. Let's go ahead and not do that, not set up shop in downtown SF and you can go ahead and fuck off and we'll find a guy who will take a fraction of your proposed salary and come up with better ideas".
Yeah, the great coach that told his agent to not even counter an offer that was handed to him in October.
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Right
Things are great
Nothing could be done
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Countering means there's a price you'll take to stay there, at least initially.
What do you think that the boosters can go corner the guy, get on their hands and knees and beg him after he won't even talk to them? lol
He didn't want to be in the PNW.
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If Scott was competent OR the school presidents were then the PAC would be alive today. It took both being bad and indifferent to kill it
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Exactly right
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offseason best season
Wasn’t he the commissioner of the WTA (women’s tennis association) first? He fucked that up too ofc.No wonder he wants this gig.
Nelly Korda should be a Caitlin Clark level household name. Womens golf must really want to stay niche if they go with good ole Larry ScottFS.
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and just as 21-year old Ina Yoon enters the league determined to put Korea back on the map
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Thanks Taft!
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Being a shitty Idea guy isn't some new thing.
Enabling and protecting a shitty Idea guy for over a decade and then doubling down during Covid will kill a 100+ year organization though.
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And Ohio State was there to keep the B1G brand skrong.
The PAC was always gonna have a hard time branding-wise with USC being shit post 2009. And their sucking in this time frame wasn't primarily result of revenue issues, but rather terrible hires. If USC had won a Natty or 2 in the 2010s I suspect the Pac might have survived.
Do Michigan and Ohio State get a bigger TV revenue share than, say, Purdue and Indiana? I don't recall.
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It's better to have more than 1 blue blood, but USC isn't a very good excuse. If you need to have your only blue blood be national championship caliber then you suck as a conference.
The biggest difference is the way they set their divisions up you get Michigan, Penn St, and Ohio St all playing each other while the Pac set it up so that USC is playing Utah and Colorado instead of UW and Oregon. That's terrible business and a product of a mindset that "We need to have every member look like they're equal". That's a great way to piss off your only blue blood.
And unequal revenue share wouldn't be on the table for USC if they wouldn't have been hemorrhaging money for 7 channels of Olympic sports. Our Cal and Stanford sailing and beach volleyball teams got exposure though, so that's neat.
It's also been floated out there that the conference presidents really thought their olympic championship brand shit was going to make a lot of money because, "football's in trouble with the concussion lawsuits." Just an incredible fuckup to gamble your conference like that and put it up there with a media startup when you didn't even have to.
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The Pac-10/12 was one of those situations where they were in a challenging spot this millennium and they made about every wrong move they could have as a conference and at their top programs and then just about every cultural shift that was going against the conference intensified and accelerated.
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It's amazing how the Pac 12 could only get an offer of a low $20 million/year, meanwhile the B1G teams might get up to $100 million/year a team in 5 more years.
I sometimes turn on the live college football games on youtube. UW will get a max of 20K-50K viewers in Big games they play. But teams like Ohio State, LSU, Bama, Texas will have 150K viewers in Big games.
I remember people on the various UW boards 20-30 years ago predicting that the SEC and B1G would consume all the top teams from the weaker conferences.
Then after that happened, they said that the top 10-12 teams would break off and go independent and try to get Notre Dame type TV deals eventually.
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Larry Scott doesn't deserve another job. Ever.
