Canzano: “Commissioner 101 — don’t extend a membership invite unless you are guaranteed the answer is ‘yes.’”

[ttowncoug]

From yesterday, and a quote I agree with...

Still, the optics aren’t great. One retired long-time conference commissioner texted me a note on Thursday morning with advice for the Pac-12’s Teresa Gould: “Commissioner 101 — don’t extend a membership invite unless you are guaranteed the answer is ‘yes.’”

Canzano: Pac-12's next expansion move must be focused

Mountain West set to keep UNLV and Air Force... what's next?

www.johncanzano.com

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

Yes, all those years of conference realignment experience floating around out there, wagging their finger from the armchair like this isn't a brand new situation that literally no one has experienced to this degree.

Canzano and mystery AD can stfu until they've walked a mile. So can anyone else acting like they have the answers or could do it better. This is an unprecedented situation in unprecedented times.

 

[ttowncoug]

Fair or unfair, I think it might be useful to say if we give you an invite are you signing to prevent any of the negative PR. That's my point.

 

[95coug]

From yesterday, and a quote I agree with...

Still, the optics aren’t great. One retired long-time conference commissioner texted me a note on Thursday morning with advice for the Pac-12’s Teresa Gould: “Commissioner 101 — don’t extend a membership invite unless you are guaranteed the answer is ‘yes.’”

Canzano: Pac-12's next expansion move must be focused

Mountain West set to keep UNLV and Air Force... what's next?

www.johncanzano.com

I disagree anyway. Whatever year it was that we invited Oklahoma & Texas and they turned us down - inviting them was still the right move. Refusing to give Texas the exclusive rights and unequal distribution they wanted was also the right move.

Those two moves were the last things - possibly the only things - that Larry Scott did right.