Yeah. SC and Oregon are the only real moneymakers in the PAC, and it's SC over Oregon by a mile. LA does numbers with basketball.
Previous commissioner of the PAC basically ran the conference's TV rights into the ground. Spun up their own network and couldn't get anybody to pay for it except DirectTV I think. And of course all the SC games people actually wanted to watch were on actual networks so it just made it shitty and expensive for fans of the rest of the teams to watch their games (so we just watch bootlegs obviously).
And this whole time he insisted on having conference HQ in SF, literally the most expensive city in the country.
Anyway this whole thing sucks to me, a Cal fan. Our successful-but-not-lucrative sports teams are going to eat shit for this. We almost had to get rid of the men's baseball team a few years back, and before that we almost eliminated literally the winningest men's team in college rugby.
Yeah. SC and Oregon are the only real moneymakers in the PAC, and it's SC over Oregon by a mile. LA does numbers with basketball.
Previous commissioner of the PAC basically ran the conference's TV rights into the ground. Spun up their own network and couldn't get anybody to pay for it except DirectTV I think. And of course all the SC games people actually wanted to watch were on actual networks so it just made it shitty and expensive for fans of the rest of the teams to watch their games (so we just watch bootlegs obviously).
And this whole time he insisted on having conference HQ in SF, literally the most expensive city in the country.
Anyway this whole thing sucks to me, a Cal fan. Our successful-but-not-lucrative sports teams are going to eat shit for this. We almost had to get rid of the men's baseball team a few years back, and before that we almost eliminated literally the winningest men's team in college rugby.