Heard he accidentally wore a pair of adidas in front of PK and was told to start looking.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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I think what is surprising is how different the 2 schools are. Seems like a strange match.
I'm high on Utah as well for the reasons you state. I think building a conference with a huge in-state rivalry in a fast growing state that has good programs with rabid fans is a great thing.
As for the future, when the SLC area has to be abandoned, Phoenix runs out of water, Texas secedes and most of the ACC and PAC schools are underwater, I'm fully expecting ISU's enrollment to jump to like 150,000. That's a lot of eyeballs. Big 10 should be playing the long game here and add ISU immediately.
The presidential search at NW started in April 2021. They named Blank the president in October 2021, but she stepped down in July 2022 before filling the role. I'd be willing to bet the Oregon guy was a candidate they were interviewing and considering in spring/summer of 2021, if that's the case it wouldn't have had anything to do with conference realignment.
Yeah the journey of a university prez can be a strange one. Gordon Gee went from Brown, to Vanderbilt, to tOSU, to West Virginia. Talk about weird.
Not to venture into politics but what is the SLC issue? Water? No plans move there so I don’t pay attention.
OSU may have been upwards in pay from Vanderbilt, but yeah, WVU was a step down after he got pushed out at OSU
Was he missing teeth or was his sister also his wife? If so, might have just been trying to find a 5-star culture fit.
Agree, not to mention a complete 180 from two elite privates with enrollments of 8k-12k to massive publics with enrollments of >65k.
Yeah, if you are a university president, going from NW to Oregon is like being a football coach and going from Rutgers to Ohio State. They could say Oregon is going to the big 10 and NW is shutting down sports, and it isn't making one ounce of difference. You're making that jump as a university pres.
Oregon is probably one of the more extreme in terms of athletics being a high portion of overall university operations, and it's still less than 10%. For most it's like 5%.
It was one of the funny things about the Canzano feud with the Arizona guy. Canzano thought there was no way an AD would see a TV dollar offer before a President, like the Presidents are personally the lead contact or negotiators here.
Do people realize the grants/gifts on the research and academic side that are in the millions of dollars that are applied for and come in, and the Presidents often don't even know they exist until the university receives them, if at all? Individual faculty are bringing in grants in millions of dollars all the time, and the presidents have no role, and usually no knowledge until after the fact.
Obviously college sports are a big deal, and the media deals are important, and the Presidents are going to be involved and aware. But the idea that a $25M/year TV deal is going directly to the presidents and bypassing ADs is pretty silly. College sports are indeed a big business, but I don't think people grasp what behemoths these large universities are.
Salt Lake drying up is exposing arsenic and other problematic compounds that can then be carried by wind.
Absolutely fantastic analysis and article. Again, some of the sports media lose credibility with me. News is dead, everything is now an opinion piece with a narrative.Another amazing data driven article by the 365 website. The data dismantles John Wilner's latest puff piece. Just more proof he's just a Pac-10 shell.
The Value of TV Windows & Responding to Another Big 12, Pac 12 Comparison
When realignment comes around, fans run to TV ratings as television value are the motor behind much of the saga that has been on-going for seemingly forever. These comparisons usually end up very flawed for a number of reasons.sicem365.com
I also appreciate that he says the media partners have more data and better analysis.
How in the hell does this happen? At some point maybe one of these schools decides not to catch what seems to be a falling knife.
Well, on the bright side, I guess Kirkwood has identified their next President when the time comes.
Yeah he was only at Brown for 2 years and they hated him. To this day they troll him by having the "E. Gordon Gee Lavatory Complex", a couple of port-o-potties they put out during spring weekend.
Northwestern pays triple what Oregon does for University president. I hate Chicago, but if you triple my salary. I'm gone tomorrow
Northwestern is in Evanston, which is a very nice close suburb of Chicago. Probably a lot of really nice Victorian mansions to choose from.
I don't think it's even political because even the people who are usually anti-environment acknowledge the risk, it's a looming problem that is known. Basically the Great Salt Lake has lost 2/3 of its water, if it dries up there are toxic metals that could end up in the air and poison people with dust storms. Possible they'd have to wear N95s on windy days in worst case scenario. You can view it separately from other environmental issues because at least some of it is from the rapid growth of the area.
That's in addition to the typical water issues that the entire western half of the US has.
