09-29-2021, 11:27 AM
I thought the Pac-12 tournament helped make money. I didn't know about the recruiting angle. Why would a prospect care about the Pac-12 tournament? I don't recall the exact numbers, but my memory is that the Pac-12 tournament is not widely watched. Certainly not the early rounds, which are on the network-few-get.
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)