Is this where we go for ranting therapy?
Sept 19, 2023 14:51:37 GMT -8
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Post by Mike84 on Sept 19, 2023 14:51:37 GMT -8
You'd think that I would be focused only on the future and past looking back to that "Black Friday".
Apparently not.
While working outside today (I'm retired, so every day is chore day), I'm listening to Joe Beaver Show podcasts, including recent ones I had missed. If I see that they talked to someone interesting, I download the podcast. I just listened to the one that was a few days after the SJSU game. The guests were a guy from the Dam Nation Collective, talking about the "Mission to $1 Million", Roxy Bernstein from the Pac-12 network, and Jon Wilner.
It was the talk with Roxy Bernstein that has me in need of ranting therapy again...
Roxy is a Pac-12 guy. Always has been. Cal alum. He expressed that the overriding emotion related to the demise of the Pac-12 is sadness. Extreme sadness. It got me to thinking about how so very sad this all is and how it leaves me feeling helpless and almost hopeless. Still. Like I'll never quite get over it.
This "conference of champions", with so much history, so so many years, so many memories, so many rivalries, was just discarded like yesterday's garbage. It makes no sense. I KNOW that the commissioner and the presidents messed up on getting a media deal. I KNOW that football drives everything. I KNOW that it's all about the money now. But...
...WHY THE F DID UofNike AND UW TURN AWAY FROM THE CHALLENGE, GIVE UP ON FINDING ANOTHER PATH, GIVE UP ON ALL THE PAST, ALL THE FUTURE, ALL THE TRADITION, AND JUST RUN AWAY? WHY COULDN'T THEY SEE THAT DISSOLVING THE PAC-12 WAS NOT ONLY NOT THE FIRST OPTION, IT WAS NOT THE SECOND, THRID, FOURTH, FIFTH, OR 800TH OPTION! IT COULD NOT BE DONE.
The conference could have survived the loss of USC and UCLA and Colorado. It had to stop there. The rest had to be of one mind and one determination to find a way to make it work. They needed to be up to the challenge. They needed to understand that college football may be about the money NOW but what has made college football so lucrative is the tradition, the regionality, the rivalries, the generations of fans rooting for and against each other for over 100 years!
About now I'd like to turn off the profanity filter and just let loose. Glad I can't, in a way.
I'm sad. I know things will go forward, for better or worse, but I'm still stunned. And sad. Very sad.
Thanks for listening.
Apparently not.
While working outside today (I'm retired, so every day is chore day), I'm listening to Joe Beaver Show podcasts, including recent ones I had missed. If I see that they talked to someone interesting, I download the podcast. I just listened to the one that was a few days after the SJSU game. The guests were a guy from the Dam Nation Collective, talking about the "Mission to $1 Million", Roxy Bernstein from the Pac-12 network, and Jon Wilner.
It was the talk with Roxy Bernstein that has me in need of ranting therapy again...
Roxy is a Pac-12 guy. Always has been. Cal alum. He expressed that the overriding emotion related to the demise of the Pac-12 is sadness. Extreme sadness. It got me to thinking about how so very sad this all is and how it leaves me feeling helpless and almost hopeless. Still. Like I'll never quite get over it.
This "conference of champions", with so much history, so so many years, so many memories, so many rivalries, was just discarded like yesterday's garbage. It makes no sense. I KNOW that the commissioner and the presidents messed up on getting a media deal. I KNOW that football drives everything. I KNOW that it's all about the money now. But...
...WHY THE F DID UofNike AND UW TURN AWAY FROM THE CHALLENGE, GIVE UP ON FINDING ANOTHER PATH, GIVE UP ON ALL THE PAST, ALL THE FUTURE, ALL THE TRADITION, AND JUST RUN AWAY? WHY COULDN'T THEY SEE THAT DISSOLVING THE PAC-12 WAS NOT ONLY NOT THE FIRST OPTION, IT WAS NOT THE SECOND, THRID, FOURTH, FIFTH, OR 800TH OPTION! IT COULD NOT BE DONE.
The conference could have survived the loss of USC and UCLA and Colorado. It had to stop there. The rest had to be of one mind and one determination to find a way to make it work. They needed to be up to the challenge. They needed to understand that college football may be about the money NOW but what has made college football so lucrative is the tradition, the regionality, the rivalries, the generations of fans rooting for and against each other for over 100 years!
About now I'd like to turn off the profanity filter and just let loose. Glad I can't, in a way.
I'm sad. I know things will go forward, for better or worse, but I'm still stunned. And sad. Very sad.
Thanks for listening.
