[jacket3ree]

To reinforce the bullshittery of all this, Stanford has the third-highest viewership of the conference soon to be known as the former Pac12.

I thought this was all about eyeballs?  Well, then WTF?

Stanford is barely behind USC and Oregon in the 2013-2021 period.



I read somewhere that in the ACC, Stanford would be ahead of everyone except FSU, Clemson, and maybe Miami.


My gut feel is that Stanford really, really wanted to hold the Pac9 together and it wasn't until the last moment it was clear that wouldn't happen. I'm shocked they aren't Machiavellian enough to have had a quick backstabbing fallback like everyone else. 

Somewhere on the interwebs is an image of a new MTL research paper showing travel distance isn't so bad, with California stuck on a map of ACC teams but the Colorado River is the Ohio River. I saw it yesterday, but can't find it.  Mostly to point out that at the moment, Stanford's academic reputation isn't sterling.  One of the ACC sites did say "Stanford is a solid school."

[jacket3ree]

To reinforce the bullshittery of all this, Stanford has the third-highest viewership of the conference soon to be known as the former Pac12.

I thought this was all about eyeballs?  Well, then WTF?

Stanford is barely behind USC and Oregon in the 2013-2021 period.



I read somewhere that in the ACC, Stanford would be ahead of everyone except FSU, Clemson, and maybe Miami.


My gut feel is that Stanford really, really wanted to hold the Pac9 together and it wasn't until the last moment it was clear that wouldn't happen. I'm shocked they aren't Machiavellian enough to have had a quick backstabbing fallback like everyone else. 

Somewhere on the interwebs is an image of a new MTL research paper showing travel distance isn't so bad, with California stuck on a map of ACC teams but the Colorado River is the Ohio River. I saw it yesterday, but can't find it.  Mostly to point out that at the moment, Stanford's academic reputation isn't sterling.  One of the ACC sites did say "Stanford is a solid school."