The equity raise can’t be allowed to happen. It’s just Larry scheming to score himself one last huge bonus before he bails. HQ should be in a low cost region. We must partner with ESPN, because we need those high school eyes on the bears to garner recruiting interest.
With regard to the recruiting...while pulling 4 & 5 * guys has never been Fox's 'rappin' 4-tay,' it's nonetheless disappointing to have just 1 currently-eligible PG on the roster in mid-May, and a defense-first one at that. Don't get me wrong, I think Joel Brown showed as a FR he could play in this league, but the O just isn't there yet. While lack of campus visits due to COVID has definitely had an impact, this is nonetheless concerning to have such a major hole. Here's hoping Dimmy the Greek makes an unexpected leap from FR-SO and can provide some minutes....
Kept forgetting, during the whole thrilling mascot competition, to ask my favorite Pac-12 rhetorical question, which is why would USC refer to its female athletes as the Women of Troy? Do fans know what happened after Troy's defeat? Husbands massacred, women raped, children enslaved? (Maybe that accounts for lousy attendance at home games.)
you missed key on Larry. His mistake -- actually the pac President's who approved the debacle - was building a wholly-owned network in the first place. It was a classic b-school 'make-buy' decision and anyone with one iota of common sense would 'buy' (i.e., contract with espn). Instead, Larry wanted to be seen and paid as a media mogul. The big issue wasn't that Wazzu is less popular to watch than 'SC-LA, but Larry sold the Presidents on the idea that he would broadcast all the other sports, with a (wink-wink) focus on women's sports which national sports broadcasts were ignoring. The Presidents' bit hard, hook, line and sinker. (yes, the network doesn't work well bcos the footprint/fan base is too small, but we are still stuck with an albatross of capital in SF, and no expertise to run it.)
With regard to Pac 12 network broacasts, I watched a football game via streaming last year and there was as tab that had something like 78 viewers. Not exactly confidence building when you are trying to raise $500 million for the conference from private equity firms. What are the real rankings - I would guess abysmally low except for maybe the Big Game.
The equity raise can’t be allowed to happen. It’s just Larry scheming to score himself one last huge bonus before he bails. HQ should be in a low cost region. We must partner with ESPN, because we need those high school eyes on the bears to garner recruiting interest.
With regard to the recruiting...while pulling 4 & 5 * guys has never been Fox's 'rappin' 4-tay,' it's nonetheless disappointing to have just 1 currently-eligible PG on the roster in mid-May, and a defense-first one at that. Don't get me wrong, I think Joel Brown showed as a FR he could play in this league, but the O just isn't there yet. While lack of campus visits due to COVID has definitely had an impact, this is nonetheless concerning to have such a major hole. Here's hoping Dimmy the Greek makes an unexpected leap from FR-SO and can provide some minutes....
Kept forgetting, during the whole thrilling mascot competition, to ask my favorite Pac-12 rhetorical question, which is why would USC refer to its female athletes as the Women of Troy? Do fans know what happened after Troy's defeat? Husbands massacred, women raped, children enslaved? (Maybe that accounts for lousy attendance at home games.)
Thank you; I just had to get that out.
you missed key on Larry. His mistake -- actually the pac President's who approved the debacle - was building a wholly-owned network in the first place. It was a classic b-school 'make-buy' decision and anyone with one iota of common sense would 'buy' (i.e., contract with espn). Instead, Larry wanted to be seen and paid as a media mogul. The big issue wasn't that Wazzu is less popular to watch than 'SC-LA, but Larry sold the Presidents on the idea that he would broadcast all the other sports, with a (wink-wink) focus on women's sports which national sports broadcasts were ignoring. The Presidents' bit hard, hook, line and sinker. (yes, the network doesn't work well bcos the footprint/fan base is too small, but we are still stuck with an albatross of capital in SF, and no expertise to run it.)
Yeah, the failure of the pac-12 network deserves its own full length column
With regard to Pac 12 network broacasts, I watched a football game via streaming last year and there was as tab that had something like 78 viewers. Not exactly confidence building when you are trying to raise $500 million for the conference from private equity firms. What are the real rankings - I would guess abysmally low except for maybe the Big Game.