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Mandel: Pac-12's cause of death is about gross failure of leadership (The Athletic Paywall) (theathletic.com)

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From Larry Scott to George Kliavkoff, here's how the Pac-12 fell apart amid mass departures to the Big Ten and Big 12.

TLDR: Larry Scott, empowered by presidents who were alternately apathetic or arrogant, fucked them. Kliavkoff was uniquely poorly suited to get them out of it and was clueless enough to have been surprised. Nobody but Colorado and Arizona actually wanted to leave at this time.

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[–] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

No offense Mandel, but I didn't need a jury to determine this verdict. My question is at what point did PAC leadership see the writing on the wall. If it was after it became too late to fix why couldn't they see it? My feeling is that most serious fans have seen some version of this implosion looming for a bit. If it was before their destiny was sealed why were the presidents unwilling or unable to correct course? No one's claiming that Eugene and Athens represent the same market value but it seems to me that at some point this was avoidable. Even if some of this can be blamed on coorporate greed and ignorance on the part of the academic institutions, to me that isn't enough to cause a total catastrophe.