10-16-2010, 04:45 PM
"Complete crap. Â You\'re talking about taking 100 year old rivalries and stuffing them in the trash for the sake of making more money."
"Finally! Thanks for the sanity snapback, Jeff. I thought I\'d fallen asleep and been transported to the planet "Thank you. sir. May I have"
I would have preferred to keep the Pac 10 as it was. But, now that it is the Pac 12 and Stanford is most likely going to be in the North division, I want to see what is gives Stanford the best chance of winning. I have been watching Stanford football for a long time. The last thing I want to see is more decade long droughts. I have seen too many of them. If Pat Haden\'s 5-2-2 plan is adopted, then it would be a handicap. The long term effect would be fewer bowl games, less practice time, a drop in recruiting, and more loses. All it takes is a 5 and 7 season to begin a cascade.
"Finally! Thanks for the sanity snapback, Jeff. I thought I\'d fallen asleep and been transported to the planet "Thank you. sir. May I have"
I would have preferred to keep the Pac 10 as it was. But, now that it is the Pac 12 and Stanford is most likely going to be in the North division, I want to see what is gives Stanford the best chance of winning. I have been watching Stanford football for a long time. The last thing I want to see is more decade long droughts. I have seen too many of them. If Pat Haden\'s 5-2-2 plan is adopted, then it would be a handicap. The long term effect would be fewer bowl games, less practice time, a drop in recruiting, and more loses. All it takes is a 5 and 7 season to begin a cascade.