From: constance@duxmail.com   
      
   On 2023-07-27, xyzzy  wrote:   
   > wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:12:14 -0700 (PDT), Michael Falkner  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 8:48:42?PM UTC-7, Eric Ramon wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Kliavkoff has been a disaster but lots of people are being polite and   
   >>>> not saying so. Under his watch USC and UCLA has signed onto the Big   
   >>>> 10-12-14-16 and he's failed to get any media deal. That thing he said   
   >>>> "today is about football" was telling. There's nothing in sight.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, the Pac-12 is finished and the death knell was the moment USC and UCLA   
   jumped.   
   >>>   
   >>  Kind of ironic and also karma since it was the PAC10 that started all   
   >> the poaching and huge conferences into high gear.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Was it though? IMO it all started with Penn State to the B1G and Arkansas   
   > and South Carolina to the SEC.   
      
   Penn St. was an independent, right?   
      
   >   
   > And the first poaching of the modern era was the Big 8 destroying the SWC.   
   > The PAC didn’t poach anyone until 15 years after that.   
   >   
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