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Agreed, they would need to find the right people to make it work, but there are so many out there that I think they could. I thought the NHL one was really good for the first season of it. Hockey is tough because it's just not as well known and there isn't anyone like Shaq or Barkley. Gretzky was awesome, but he doesn't have the personality of those two. Bissonette was great and that's the type of guy you need for CFB.
Bissonette was fantastic. Gretzky was fine, albeit incredibly biased. Dude said the Oilers would advance to the finals. Oops. I get it, though. Bottom line was that he was great for those broadcasts. He was terrific. How to replicate that in CFB? I dunno. Need some big personalities with strong ties to college football. Brian Bosworth comes to mind. What’s he doing these days, anyway?
I definitely like McAfee and Spurrier. Who are Virk and Pete?
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Adnan VIrk. Spurrier could easily be the next Corso. He's enough of a character that he could easily come up with a bit along the lines of the headgear. Is pushing 80 though.
FloSports Breaks Its Own Record With Largest D-II Media Deal
FloSports, streaming service inked a groundbreaking four-year, seven-figure media partnership with the GLIAC.
Might want to make a move soon since D2 schools are now getting seven figure media rights deals.
No. Someone posted the timeline in another thread. He had more than a full year before Yormark was hired and the Big 12 was rudderless. He could have done something.
I really believe it's likely the LA schools had already made the deal when GK took his role.
I don't think that they could have made up their minds on the timeline you suggest, because the B1G wasn't looking to expand until they felt a need to react to the SEC adding Texas and Oklahoma.
ok, we don't really know. I may very well be off base.
USC was definitely sword rattling and demanding more money. UCLA and others were very public about budget needs (which were exacerbated by the pandemic). But I don't believe there was a year of secret negotiations and a deal in place long before the announcement like we saw with OU/UT-SEC.
It is kind of hard to write a book with your hands tied. Just sayin'.
Kliavkoff can type with both feet.
but yormark was dealt an even worse hand as the ou/ut departures werent just in the works when he signed, but a done deal. and yormark managed to save the conference, kliavkoff didnt. yormark knew he had to act and had to do so fast and he convinced the big 12 presidents to give him the green light. the p12 presidents were probably still suffering from delusions grandeur as larry scott sold them the "the big payday is coming, trust the process, keep the course!" bull**** for a decade while the conference was treading water and losing ground every single day, but the key thing is that yormark managed to get the right message across and get approval to get deals done asap while kliavkoff didnt ... one conference lived and another died as a result of their actions.
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See what I said above, it was his job to do that.
Yep. Larry Scott sold a vision. It was Kliatkoff's job to sell a new one. Unless - and this is entirely possible given what we know of the leadership of the PAC-12 - he was hired specifically to continue the Larry Scott vision that the old guard who were there when LS was hired was still enamored with and they had the seniority to politically dominate the board (*cough* *Oregon State* *cough*).
No argument there, but some jobs are easy to manage and some aren’t. The PAC was clearly the latter.
His fault for accepting the job.
