[oldalum]

It would be fine if his employer upped the coverage of the local programs, and then in addition went to a more conference-wide view, but has this actually happened?

No, he just took on the whole conference as his subject. I suspect, given that allocating his time is a zero-sum game, that this means less coverage of the local teams.

His theme on USC is that (1) it is to the conference's benefit to put a team into the CFP; (2) so the conference should have deliberately given USC a better chance to get there by manipulating its scheduling. Of course this roused the masses (he probably did this intentionally to promote his new Pac-12 conference site--more clicks and publicity). Unfortunately, by inciting this reaction he buried the legitimate argument underlying his column. What he could have said was that the Pac-12, compared to other conferences, was disadvantaging its teams with its scheduling and no Pac-12 team should suffer that disadvantage. As an example, look what the conference did to USC this year [explanation] but this applies to any Pac-12 team.

[oldalum]

It would be fine if his employer upped the coverage of the local programs, and then in addition went to a more conference-wide view, but has this actually happened?

No, he just took on the whole conference as his subject. I suspect, given that allocating his time is a zero-sum game, that this means less coverage of the local teams.

His theme on USC is that (1) it is to the conference's benefit to put a team into the CFP; (2) so the conference should have deliberately given USC a better chance to get there by manipulating its scheduling. Of course this roused the masses (he probably did this intentionally to promote his new Pac-12 conference site--more clicks and publicity). Unfortunately, by inciting this reaction he buried the legitimate argument underlying his column. What he could have said was that the Pac-12, compared to other conferences, was disadvantaging its teams with its scheduling and no Pac-12 team should suffer that disadvantage. As an example, look what the conference did to USC this year [explanation] but this applies to any Pac-12 team.