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Besides, Love will probably get more publicity as a result of this Dodd column than he would have had he shown up.  

If you want to blame anyone, blame the Pac-12. They should have been proactive and worked out a way to get Love there a long time ago.  My suspicion is they assumed he would go, then when they found out he had a conflict, scrambled trying to convince Bryce to change his mind.  If it was THAT important for the conference they would have made certain he would be there, by planning well in advance.

I do not discount the possibility that this was somewhat premeditated by Love and/or Stanford. Love had already done it once. He probably wasn't looking forward to doing it again. What he did got a lot of ink. That is a win/win.

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Besides, Love will probably get more publicity as a result of this Dodd column than he would have had he shown up.  

If you want to blame anyone, blame the Pac-12. They should have been proactive and worked out a way to get Love there a long time ago.  My suspicion is they assumed he would go, then when they found out he had a conflict, scrambled trying to convince Bryce to change his mind.  If it was THAT important for the conference they would have made certain he would be there, by planning well in advance.

I do not discount the possibility that this was somewhat premeditated by Love and/or Stanford. Love had already done it once. He probably wasn't looking forward to doing it again. What he did got a lot of ink. That is a win/win.