NJDuck Moderator No. 1 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Canzano: While we wait for white smoke to rise from the chimney at Pac-12 Conference headquarters signaling the approval of a new media-rights deal, it’s worth a discussion about the campus leaders who will light the match. The Pac-12 presidents and chancellors got some key things wrong in the last decade plus. That required a unique blend of ignorance, apathy and arrogance. But as Henry David Thoreau once wrote: “The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.” Canzano: Time for big bosses in Pac-12 to lead WWW.JOHNCANZANO.COM Presidents and chancellors must get it right. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notalot No. 2 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Mr. Canzano rightly recognizes the President's and Chancellor's pattern and desire for a unified stance. In the case of the Pac12 media deal unity becomes a trap like a cob web. WSU, OSU, Cal, and possibly Stanford and Colorado, without the other Pac members have no place but down to go without deal binding the others. Utah will have locked in security if a media deal is signed whether deserved or not. The only way a new deal is good for Oregon is if it has a no penalty escape clause from the get-go which is unlikely. The overwhelming threat to the Ducks is that the national landscape of conferences and top-tier teams will shift during the term of the pending agreement. The uncertainty now, and a new agreement with compatatively weak shares, will further diminish the clout and reputation of the Pac imediately making recruiting progressively more difficult. Canzano is correct that it is time for the leaders to lead. Even more necessary is that the leaders of Oregon, Washington, ULCA (sic), and Utah agree a strategy and execute it separately or together from the other members of the conference. This is no time to be timid, or to be dragged into the quicksand by conference members who have no future in the new order of major college football. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph No. 3 Share Posted February 22, 2023 AMEN friend, Notalot, AMEN. If wishes were horses ..... Larry and the enablers he reported to sucked the life out of The Conference of Champions. How does stuff like this happen? How is the ACC mired in a terrible media deal through 2036? How did the B12 jump ahead of the Pac-12 when the Pac-12 could have put the B12 to bed? Academics and the leaders they hired are how this happened. I'm mad as hell that the Ducks are caught in this swamp. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lownslowav8r No. 4 Share Posted February 22, 2023 The previous presidents were bad leaders because they were bad leaders, not because they were also academics (something of a swear word on this forum, LOL). Sports is the tail that wags the in university dog. In reality sports (IMHO) are an important but not critical component of the university experience and university purpose. College sports brings in billions to the US economy but university academics brings in trillion’s through research, development, and increasingly useful and accurate intellectual models we can use to view and understand our world and society. Off my soap box! Enjoy your TV of which many of its technologies were invented by academics and universities. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
