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The PAC 12 already is upside down with this. a winning WSU, is not good for business.
We also have what Oregon had a few years ago before their musical chairs of coaching. The best home field advantage in the conference. Most of the schools in the conference can’t fill their stadiums and the fans that do show up don’t give a shit. 33K passionate fans packing a stadium is a helluva lot more intimidating than 50k that are indifferent. Throw in the bitch of travel getting to Pullman and the late season cold...not a fun road trip.WSU has been the best kept secret on the West Coast.
Unequaled college town. Unequaled student experience.
WSU has “it.”
The last thing some of these peer institutions want is to have to compete with anyone. Rather than get their act together and be better, they put their energy into pulling others down. Same could be said for their media markets.
You do not build the quality of your conference by teams being unsuccessful or not competitive. I would think that it would serve the conference more if WSU had a good team. In fact, if every team was good it would elevate the conference. Look at the SEC. Name another conference that gets talk of half the playoff being their teams.
Instead you have media and coaches focused on someone getting worse so they can be better. How about worrying about your own coaching staff???
This part is amazing >
"Leach took over a WSU program that had gone 4-32 in four dreadful conference seasons. It took him three years dig out from under the rubble, but since then the Cougars are 35-14.
That’s more victories in a four-year period than at any time in Arizona history."
Wow.
The PAC 12 already is upside down with this. a winning WSU, is not good for business.
WSU being good at the expense of USC & Oregon isn't good. But, SC, UCLA & UW didn't agree to equal TV revenue sharing just because Bill Moos is a swell guy. I always envisioned that conversation going something like this, "Ok, you want to share the TV money, fine. Improve your product and get more people to watch your games." That's exactly what WSU did. Not only by winning, but just by being interesting.
I'm sure Oregon and Stanford aren't fond of losing to us every year, but in the grand scheme, us being interesting enough to have Gameday, a Top 10 ranking, and 12:30 ESPN slots is better than having to air some 58-0 Paul Wulff debacle.
WSU being good at the expense of USC & Oregon isn't good. But, SC, UCLA & UW didn't agree to equal TV revenue sharing just because Bill Moos is a swell guy. I always envisioned that conversation going something like this, "Ok, you want to share the TV money, fine. Improve your product and get more people to watch your games." That's exactly what WSU did. Not only by winning, but just by being interesting.
I'm sure Oregon and Stanford aren't fond of losing to us every year, but in the grand scheme, us being interesting enough to have Gameday, a Top 10 ranking, and 12:30 ESPN slots is better than having to air some 58-0 Paul Wulff debacle.
Imagine what the Pac-12 would look like in the rankings if it had no one in the Top 10. I get the grudging envy, but overall, revenue sharing has been a pretty good thing for the conference.
It's not like they don't have plenty of advantages.Maybe not for the south division.
And yet outside of USC nobody in that division wins the conference. Maybe UCLA got lucky one year early in the Mora tenure, now that I think of it. But since the split the North has dominated the SouthIt's not like they don't have plenty of advantages.