Caple: UW leaving Pac-12 is a total bummer — and totally necessary

It was necessary, but not necessarily a bummer.
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Agree. I think we found out that UW fundamentally doesn't work with the rest of the Pac-12

The CA schools repeatedly blocked expansion. USC always wanted to be the biggest fish in the pond, and no school outside the Ivy could satisfy Cal or Stanford. In the era of expansion, that effectively killed any chance the Pac-12 would have for survival.

We learned that ASU's president is an idiot and that Wazzu and Beav think going from $27m per year to $23m per year with no TV exposure is a good deal. It's presidents like these that is why the Pac-12 lived in fantasy land and not reality.

The only school that gained w/respect from me was UA who realized this was a bad deal and forced ASU to leave the Pac-12 with them. That and he was probably the one who asked the Big 12 if they could take every team in the Pac-12 except Wazzu and Beav
 
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It was necessary, but not necessarily a bummer.
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Agree. I think we found out that UW fundamentally doesn't work with the rest of the Pac-12

The CA schools repeatedly blocked expansion. USC always wanted to be the biggest fish in the pond, and no school outside the Ivy could satisfy Cal or Stanford. In the era of expansion, that effectively killed any chance the Pac-12 would have for survival.

We learned that ASU's president is an idiot and that Wazzu and Beav think going from $27m per year to $23m per year with no TV exposure is a good deal. It's presidents like these that is why the Pac-12 lived in fantasy land and not reality.

The only school that gained w/respect from me was UA who realized this was a bad deal and forced ASU to leave the Pac-12 with them. That and he was probably the one who asked the Big 12 if they could take every team in the Pac-12 except Wazzu and Beav
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Hard to disagree with any of this.
 
Fun fact

Larry Scott was the highest paid commissioner at 4.1 million when he left

I could share some deep thoughts about academia and the business acumen they have but it would be wrong
 
It was necessary, but not necessarily a bummer.
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Agree. I think we found out that UW fundamentally doesn't work with the rest of the Pac-12

The CA schools repeatedly blocked expansion. USC always wanted to be the biggest fish in the pond, and no school outside the Ivy could satisfy Cal or Stanford. In the era of expansion, that effectively killed any chance the Pac-12 would have for survival.

We learned that ASU's president is an idiot and that Wazzu and Beav think going from $27m per year to $23m per year with no TV exposure is a good deal. It's presidents like these that is why the Pac-12 lived in fantasy land and not reality.

The only school that gained w/respect from me was UA who realized this was a bad deal and forced ASU to leave the Pac-12 with them. That and he was probably the one who asked the Big 12 if they could take every team in the Pac-12 except Wazzu and Beav
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He should have asked to exclude all the remaining Pac 4 teams. Then the deal might have gotten done.
 
What all of this really taught me was something I had already assumed: Womens Tennis executives are mostly fags.
 
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It was necessary, but not necessarily a bummer.
Click to expand...

Agree. I think we found out that UW fundamentally doesn't work with the rest of the Pac-12

The CA schools repeatedly blocked expansion. USC always wanted to be the biggest fish in the pond, and no school outside the Ivy could satisfy Cal or Stanford. In the era of expansion, that effectively killed any chance the Pac-12 would have for survival.

We learned that ASU's president is an idiot and that Wazzu and Beav think going from $27m per year to $23m per year with no TV exposure is a good deal. It's presidents like these that is why the Pac-12 lived in fantasy land and not reality.

The only school that gained w/respect from me was UA who realized this was a bad deal and forced ASU to leave the Pac-12 with them. That and he was probably the one who asked the Big 12 if they could take every team in the Pac-12 except Wazzu and Beav
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B1G has been way more culturally aligned than the PAC.
 
Fun fact

Larry Scott was the highest paid commissioner at 4.1 million when he left

I could share some deep thoughts about academia and the business acumen they have but it would be wrong
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Remember when that asshole twatted that he got a contact extension but had to take it down because of the backlash hahaha.
 
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