God bless George Kliavkoff.
If it wasn't for his incompetence in negotiating a deal and being caught completely flat footed as Brett Yorkmark came and raided the conference for scaps, we might have ended up signing a loser's contract with ESPN and fallen further and further behind in the conference arms race, while adding Colorado State and SDSU as the 11th and 12th members. Just like Jimmy Lake, the best kind of incompetence is the blow it up fast kind that require drastic measures in response. And because of that we're now sitting in a top 2 league going forward while all the other Pac-12 rats fled for any dry piece of driftwood they could find.