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State of the Pac-12: Landry Sports Podcast
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One point he made at the end that I thought was interesting was his perspective on the "Conference of Champions" thing. His take was pretty much, "That's great and something to be proud of, but a big reason for all the titles is that you play a lot more sports. Not everyone plays Water Polo around the country. And the other side of this coin is that Pac-12 schools are not only making less money off their media deal, but they're spending a lower percentage of the revenue they do earn on football compared to the rest of the country."
That's a huge deal and something to think about. Fortunately, it seems that Rick George understands this very well and is not interested in following that Pac-12 model. He's all about getting his football house in order - basketball to a lesser extent - and that those rising tides will lift all the other boats within the athletic department. He has never talked about his main goals being to add more sports. He's always talking about getting the endowment up, creating a donor culture, and taking facilities and funding levels for the revenue-driving sports to the level they need to be in order to win championships.
With that, as shown by the articles that have come out lately on RG and his 5-year anniversary, is that he is showing that as the facilities and infrastructure that drives FB and BB are developed it benefits the non-revenue sports and takes them to a championship level. He realizes that you build your VB program by having top level facilities for MBB because of the overflow that means on academic support, study rooms, nutrition programs, training staff and court facilities along with the way success in the revenue sports will market your university and athletic programs.
That's a huge deal and something to think about. Fortunately, it seems that Rick George understands this very well and is not interested in following that Pac-12 model. He's all about getting his football house in order - basketball to a lesser extent - and that those rising tides will lift all the other boats within the athletic department. He has never talked about his main goals being to add more sports. He's always talking about getting the endowment up, creating a donor culture, and taking facilities and funding levels for the revenue-driving sports to the level they need to be in order to win championships.
With that, as shown by the articles that have come out lately on RG and his 5-year anniversary, is that he is showing that as the facilities and infrastructure that drives FB and BB are developed it benefits the non-revenue sports and takes them to a championship level. He realizes that you build your VB program by having top level facilities for MBB because of the overflow that means on academic support, study rooms, nutrition programs, training staff and court facilities along with the way success in the revenue sports will market your university and athletic programs.
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Bison
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Good to see that RG gets it. This whole "Conference of Champions" moniker is a bunch of crap and the reality is that nobody cares about all your water polo, tennis, swimming & diving, etc. championships.
ahoelsken
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Also very critical of Larry Scott and the Pac 12 network. 5 or 6 years in on that......and the fact that you don't get it if you don't have Direct TV is pathetic.
onealcd
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It’s definitely not a bunch of crap but the conference needs to be more competitive in the two revenue sports for it to really mean something. If the pac won a football and basketball championship 2-3 times a decade it would be a dominant conference. We have to realiZe this is an sec guy here, the sec doesn’t have a lot of sports but the other conferences do, especially the big 10 which is our friend in all of this.
The conference needs UCLA to step up in basketball and usc to step up in football and it really is as simple as that. The rest of the teams sort of go as those teams go.
Not directly related, but the timing is right. NYTimes article today:
Is Your College Football Team in the Wrong League? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/...on=click&module=Editors Picks&pgtype=Homepage
Yes, the 2000's was "putrid" for Buffs football.
Is Your College Football Team in the Wrong League? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/...on=click&module=Editors Picks&pgtype=Homepage
Colorado’s move to the Pacific-12 from the Big 12 is difficult to examine dispassionately, given the Buffaloes’ more generally putrid 2000s. They have a division championship in the Pac-12. Could they have done more in the Big 12?
Yes, the 2000's was "putrid" for Buffs football.