…īaseball teams no longer take infield during pregame warmups. The Padres lead baseball in run prevention - on defense, for sure, and possibly on offense. And all of them (3) centers - in what’s supposed to be a short man’s game. The last American-born player to be named NBA MVP was James Harden, in 2018. Williamson has managed minutes in 100 games over four years. He’s a great talent, but basketball’s Tua Tagovailoa. It appears the Pelicans may be preparing to jettison Zion. It gives him time to practice for the Olympic biathlon. Ja Morant, the NBA’s gun-toting Doc Holliday, gets a well-deserved 25-game suspension. How can you hold a parade for an NBA championship after 10 revelers were shot celebrating it? I do not understand violence after victory. These guys couldn’t stop him with machetes. Jason Williams says Oscar Robertson couldn’t play in today’s NBA. Right now, the conferences may not only want San Diego State, but need San Diego State.Īnd San Diego State sure as hell needs them. Still, if Athletic Director JD Wicker and university President Adela de la Torre are indeed shuffling toward the MW exit, and I believe they are, they’re not doing so blindfolded. But the chickens remain in their eggs and shouldn’t be counted on to hatch on the right side of the coop. out of the photo, this is the Aztecs’ long-awaited inning, and at the very least it has the top of its lineup coming to the plate. It wanted to move up, but although football, the lifeblood, remained very good throughout the ‘70s after Don Coryell turned pro, it couldn’t even get to a bowl game with 11-1 records.Īlways standing in the way were the Trojans and Bruins, who historically recruit San Diego heavily, and never were going to allow State into the Pac-12. State has been smart enough to somehow survive being deliberately air-gunned out of the big picture since 1969, when it decided to be a small college no more. If the Pac-12 disintegrates, schools such as Oregon, Washington and Stanford are going to become big-name mules chasing the carrot. There won’t be as much.īut a lot more than the Mountain West can ever hope to offer. It not only loses its two greatest names, but, of course, money. 2 television market in America, and what does that mean? Simple. Good teams remain in the conference, but it is losing the No. Everything depends on the Pac-12 working out a TV deal. The biggest - and perhaps the only - question is: Can the Pac-12 stand? There has been talk Colorado and Arizona see a sinking ship and are contemplating jumping to the Big 12. That league is losing its two greatest football programs - Texas and Oklahoma - to the SEC. Which is why the Big 12 also is interested in SDSU. There are 24 million people living in Southern California, where college prospectors go to find prospects.Īnd that leaves the Pac-12 with one Division I football choice in this part of the world. That leaves the Far West’s only Power 5 conference without a Division I football presence in California south of Palo Alto. Since USC and UCLA have bolted to the Big Ten, the Pac-12 has been working on a TV deal that, no matter what, if completed, will be much larger than the Mountain West’s. The conference’s TV deals have been far more chaotic than lucrative. Winning games doesn’t seem to matter with the public.įootball has been the opposite of entertaining, and it is the conductor that runs the money train. Although men’s basketball sells out, the football team continues to lack enough viewers, despite the new Snapdragon Stadium. There wasn’t much money then and there isn’t much more now. It was 20 years ago that then-athletic director Rick Bay, the man who hired Steve Fisher, told me he didn’t know how much longer the football program could remain with the big kids. I assume people will disagree with this alum’s feeling on the enormity of it, but I firmly believe that, despite the new stadium, the football program was/is in danger of losing its Division I status. Louie Duck: Reap beats fear every time.I don’t have the space to get into the details, but this had to happen. Dewey Duck: Wait, wait, wait! I mean, what if there's something or someone we don't wanna find? Louie, aren't you scared?
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