08-06-2023, 08:43 AM
Yeah, the truth is most people/normal people only care about football and the long drought of the Pac-12 even having a team good enough for the College Football Playoff made it a joke to everybody outside Pac-12 partisans to talk about the Pac-12 as if it was a respectable conference.
By the way, an irony of the crackup happening when it did is that 2023 looks to be a really good year for the conference. The Pac-12 will be very relevant in college football for the next five months and then disappear.
I’m a bit torn on Stanford’s marketing/non-marketing of its championships. On one level, I think it’s a fair point we could/should have marketed better. On the other, I worry about our elitism and whether this would reinforce those perceptions, plus we face the same problem as the Pac-12 of it being a joke to almost everybody if football and basketball aren’t good. Our image was pretty good when we were winning in football. The real problem is we didn’t sustain serious football. I’m not the biggest Shaw hater, but him plunging the program into irrelevance is a brobdingnagian part of the story of why we’re here today.
By the way, an irony of the crackup happening when it did is that 2023 looks to be a really good year for the conference. The Pac-12 will be very relevant in college football for the next five months and then disappear.
I’m a bit torn on Stanford’s marketing/non-marketing of its championships. On one level, I think it’s a fair point we could/should have marketed better. On the other, I worry about our elitism and whether this would reinforce those perceptions, plus we face the same problem as the Pac-12 of it being a joke to almost everybody if football and basketball aren’t good. Our image was pretty good when we were winning in football. The real problem is we didn’t sustain serious football. I’m not the biggest Shaw hater, but him plunging the program into irrelevance is a brobdingnagian part of the story of why we’re here today.