01-20-2021, 07:54 PM
Larry Scott is out as PAC 12 commish. Thanks for nothing Larry.
Larry Scott is out!
End of June.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentr...4234248001
Quote:Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott and the league's CEO group have mutually agreed to terminate his contract one year ahead of schedule, the conference announced Wednesday night, ending his nearly 12-year tenure with the league which coincided with a series of dramatic changes across the national landscape of college sports.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentr...4234248001
End of June.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentr...4234248001
Quote:Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott and the league's CEO group have mutually agreed to terminate his contract one year ahead of schedule, the conference announced Wednesday night, ending his nearly 12-year tenure with the league which coincided with a series of dramatic changes across the national landscape of college sports.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentr...4234248001
01-20-2021, 08:52 PM
Bernard Muir for Pac-12 commissioner.... :)
Eric
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01-21-2021, 08:41 AM
Hopefully a fresh thinker can come up with something better in the way of television revenue for the network and for the universities.
As a WVB fan I am very satisfied with the conference volleyball coverage but I know that loses money. I want to see more revenue come in from televised football games.
As a WVB fan I am very satisfied with the conference volleyball coverage but I know that loses money. I want to see more revenue come in from televised football games.
Hopefully a fresh thinker can come up with something better in the way of television revenue for the network and for the universities.
As a WVB fan I am very satisfied with the conference volleyball coverage but I know that loses money. I want to see more revenue come in from televised football games.
As a WVB fan I am very satisfied with the conference volleyball coverage but I know that loses money. I want to see more revenue come in from televised football games.
01-21-2021, 09:00 AM
First order of business should be to move the operations offices out of Frisco to a more affordable location. If staff doesn't want to move, replace them.
Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip.
I forgot that "Frisco" is a derogatory term to some.
Quote:Herb Caen, the Pulitzer Prize–winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist,https://thebolditalic.com/don-t-call-it-...c14348d49c
was adamant that no one call his fair city by such a sliced-up moniker.
Instead, “Caress each Spanish syllable, salute our Italian saint.
Don’t say Frisco and don’t say San-Fran-Cis-Co,” he advised.
“That’s the way Easterners, like Larry King, pronounce it. It’s more
like SanfranSISco.” Yet cultural forces ranging from Otis Redding (“headed
for the Frisco Bay”) to Pink Floyd (the unofficial Darkness Over Frisco
live album) to Google (search “Frisco,” and see what comes up at the
top of the page) keep the name associated with San Francisco.
Here’s the thing with “Frisco”: nicknames are supposed to embody
some overall characteristic, not just act as a lazy surgery of the
city’s name. There’s a reason we don’t call New York “Nork” when
we’re feeling saucy. It’s the “City That Never Sleeps” for poetic
reasons. Just because “Frisco” sounds like a place (and it is
in Texas and Colorado), doesn’t make it a good nickname. No one
would get on the I-5 and head south for “Agles.”
(Pro tip: if an out-of-town friend calls it Frisco, avoid the soapbox.
San Franciscans have a rep for being uptight jerks about the nickname.
Don’t play into the stereotype. They’ll eventually notice you never
call it that anyway.)
Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip.
I forgot that "Frisco" is a derogatory term to some.
Quote:Herb Caen, the Pulitzer Prize–winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist,https://thebolditalic.com/don-t-call-it-...c14348d49c
was adamant that no one call his fair city by such a sliced-up moniker.
Instead, “Caress each Spanish syllable, salute our Italian saint.
Don’t say Frisco and don’t say San-Fran-Cis-Co,” he advised.
“That’s the way Easterners, like Larry King, pronounce it. It’s more
like SanfranSISco.” Yet cultural forces ranging from Otis Redding (“headed
for the Frisco Bay”) to Pink Floyd (the unofficial Darkness Over Frisco
live album) to Google (search “Frisco,” and see what comes up at the
top of the page) keep the name associated with San Francisco.
Here’s the thing with “Frisco”: nicknames are supposed to embody
some overall characteristic, not just act as a lazy surgery of the
city’s name. There’s a reason we don’t call New York “Nork” when
we’re feeling saucy. It’s the “City That Never Sleeps” for poetic
reasons. Just because “Frisco” sounds like a place (and it is
in Texas and Colorado), doesn’t make it a good nickname. No one
would get on the I-5 and head south for “Agles.”
(Pro tip: if an out-of-town friend calls it Frisco, avoid the soapbox.
San Franciscans have a rep for being uptight jerks about the nickname.
Don’t play into the stereotype. They’ll eventually notice you never
call it that anyway.)
Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip.
01-21-2021, 09:50 AM
There is also a Paris in Texas. However the best town name is Truth or Consequences, NM. Worldwide it’s Knockmealldown, Republic of Ireland.
01-21-2021, 10:06 AM
Great start to 2021: No Trump, no Larry and the arrival of a vaccine. More champagne, please!
Life is too short to waste on crap football.
01-21-2021, 10:32 AM
(01-21-2021, 09:50 AM)Phogge Wrote: There is also a Paris in Texas. However the best town name is Truth or Consequences, NM. Worldwide it’s Knockmealldown, Republic of Ireland.
At the risk of thread drift, much to the delight of my son, there is a Fart, VA and a Poopoo, HI.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
(01-21-2021, 09:50 AM)Phogge Wrote: There is also a Paris in Texas. However the best town name is Truth or Consequences, NM. Worldwide it’s Knockmealldown, Republic of Ireland.
At the risk of thread drift, much to the delight of my son, there is a Fart, VA and a Poopoo, HI.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
(01-21-2021, 10:32 AM)Papa John Wrote:With apologies to your son for bursting his bubble, and I know you know this already, the pronunciation is more like “Po-o-po-o” (4 syllables). But appetizers are called pupus. :)(01-21-2021, 09:50 AM)Phogge Wrote: There is also a Paris in Texas. However the best town name is Truth or Consequences, NM. Worldwide it’s Knockmealldown, Republic of Ireland.
At the risk of thread drift, much to the delight of my son, there is a Fart, VA and a Poopoo, HI.
(01-21-2021, 10:32 AM)Papa John Wrote:With apologies to your son for bursting his bubble, and I know you know this already, the pronunciation is more like “Po-o-po-o” (4 syllables). But appetizers are called pupus. :)(01-21-2021, 09:50 AM)Phogge Wrote: There is also a Paris in Texas. However the best town name is Truth or Consequences, NM. Worldwide it’s Knockmealldown, Republic of Ireland.
At the risk of thread drift, much to the delight of my son, there is a Fart, VA and a Poopoo, HI.
(01-20-2021, 07:54 PM)BrevinsBest Wrote: Larry Scott is out as PAC 12 commish. Thanks for nothing Larry.
Better late than never. Should have happened when DirecTV talks failed and U-Verse dropped the network
I really hope they make separate hires for the network and the conference
Don't let the door hit you on the way out Pinhead Larry!
(01-20-2021, 07:54 PM)BrevinsBest Wrote: Larry Scott is out as PAC 12 commish. Thanks for nothing Larry.
Better late than never. Should have happened when DirecTV talks failed and U-Verse dropped the network
I really hope they make separate hires for the network and the conference
Don't let the door hit you on the way out Pinhead Larry!
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