good luck
Huskers visit Boulder in 2023
How will Apple money translate to more fans at Pac-12 games?How Nike money translated to more Oregon fans at games? Money - facilites - recruiting - winning - fans?
I'm not much likin' this likeness thing.Nope. I don't either.
More from Cowherd relating to PAC 12 football:Could Asian immigration be playing a part in that? 2nd- and 3rd-generation Asians in America typically have grown up bigger than folks in their ancestral countries, but still tend to be smaller than black and/or white American natives. Increasing veganism could work to reverse that growth pattern.
“One of my theories I've talked about is my Green Plate dilemma in college football where the western kids are getting smaller because veganism is more popular and 'health and wellness' is much more of a West Coast thing than a Southern or Midwest thing. Mom's vegan, dad supports mom. More vegetables on the plate. Less meat. And as son gets smaller so do Pac 12 athletes. Kids are just getting smaller in California, the lineman are. That's one of my weird theories. But I've told this to Urban Meyer and others around the country. And coaches buy into it. They're seeing it too – it’s my Green Plate theory.”
Could Asian immigration be playing a part in that? 2nd- and 3rd-generation Asians in America typically have grown up bigger than folks in their ancestral countries, but still tend to be smaller than black and/or white American natives. Increasing veganism could work to reverse that growth pattern.
Could Asian immigration be playing a part in that? 2nd- and 3rd-generation Asians in America typically have grown up bigger than folks in their ancestral countries, but still tend to be smaller than black and/or white American natives. Increasing veganism could work to reverse that growth pattern.If you count Polynesians as Asians, they are some of the largest human beings on Earth. The PAC-12 and BYU have the Hawaiian/Samoan market cornered.
If you count Polynesians as Asians, they are some of the largest human beings on Earth. The PAC-12 and BYU have the Hawaiian/Samoan market cornered.I was thinking about Polynesians too. But I think the Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-Americans on the West Coast far outnumber them. Especially among P5 college students, which is where you build lifelong-fan relationships.
I was thinking about Polynesians too. But I think the Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-Americans on the West Coast far outnumber them. Especially among P5 college students, which is where you build lifelong-fan relationships.Don't forget about the ever-increasing numbers of South Asians (i.e. Indians, Pakistanis). Loads of them can be found on West Coast campuses as well.
It’s nearly impossible not to point out the amount of political coding in how differently college football’s 2020 viability is addressed by (the state of) California/PAC 12 Vs (state of) Texas/SEC. Yesterday LA County authorities decided to mandate continued non-essential business closure until the END OF JULY! Additionally, California’s statewide university system has elected to remain online and campus-closed through the fall semester.Both LA County's decision and the California state university system are erring to make these decisions now.
We're technically mostly open here, but in reality, we're still mostly closed, almost entirely closed effectively.True. But again, too early to make the decision on campus reopening...
Reopening doesn't really mean everything opens of course.
It's always good to delay a tough decision if making it early doesn't matter and you may get more information in time.Governor of Arizona just announced that sports [albeit without fans in the stands] can resume in the state.
I sense the Pac is out of CFB this season. The baseball experiment may be pivotal for the rest.
There is plenty of good talent in California alone to build national champions level teams each year. Schools across the country still recruit the west coast for a reason... I see a couple issues with west coast talent/PAC10 schools:
1) The universities in the PAC10 have not kept up with investments... in coaches, support staff, etc. The best leave or take jobs in other locations.
2) California seems obsessed with 7x7 camps. Not sure those are the best way to develop football players. I do believe the kids in the trenches are not as developed as those in the south (technique wise..)
3) In the 90's kids who came from Cali to UNL were some of the most successful in the program. Recently, they have brought a lot of attitude and not as much work. Not sure if that is more of "who" UNL recruited or a change in expectations by kids out of HS. I'd be interested in hearing if that is more universal. I just have this sense that HS rules in California are setting a different expectation on hard work compared to kids from other parts of the country. Again, it could be who riley recruited...
4) Sports are an "and" on the west coast. They frankly have more things to do that a kid growing up in Iowa. I hated that comments when people said "there is nothing to do in Nebraska" but there are fewer distractions. It is much easier to stay dedicated.
There is plenty of good talent in California alone to build national champions level teams each year. Schools across the country still recruit the west coast for a reason... I see a couple issues with west coast talent/PAC10 schools:So I kinda disagree with all of these to varying degrees. With the talent part, that's true, but it's also a state with at least three times as many people as 46 of the other states. But it's also surrounded by more talent poor states, which makes it saturated in recruiters, much like Atlanta.
1) The universities in the PAC10 have not kept up with investments... in coaches, support staff, etc. The best leave or take jobs in other locations.
2) California seems obsessed with 7x7 camps. Not sure those are the best way to develop football players. I do believe the kids in the trenches are not as developed as those in the south (technique wise..)
3) In the 90's kids who came from Cali to UNL were some of the most successful in the program. Recently, they have brought a lot of attitude and not as much work. Not sure if that is more of "who" UNL recruited or a change in expectations by kids out of HS. I'd be interested in hearing if that is more universal. I just have this sense that HS rules in California are setting a different expectation on hard work compared to kids from other parts of the country. Again, it could be who riley recruited...
4) Sports are an "and" on the west coast. They frankly have more things to do that a kid growing up in Iowa. I hated that comments when people said "there is nothing to do in Nebraska" but there are fewer distractions. It is much easier to stay dedicated.
https://twitter.com/azcsports/status/1287512786365485058Big win for any ASU student who wants to try and walk on the swim team.
Arizona State men's and women's swimmers will redshirt rather than compete during the 2020-21 school year, a creative idea by Hall of Fame coach Bob Bowman to deal with uncertainties created by the coronavirus pandemic.
Bowman, ASU's swim coach since 2015, suggested the idea after ASU Vice President for Athletics Ray Anderson challenged his staff to find ways to emerge stronger once the pandemic is under control, presumably with a vaccine.
"I started thinking how can we do that, and this is what I came up with," Bowman said. "We lost NCAA championship and they didn't get another season. In my mind, it is unacceptable to risk having that happen again. That just would not work for these kids we spent so long recruiting.
"With all the uncertainty going on around everything, it just makes sense to me that we could give everybody a year to rebuild, get into a training mode, focus on preparing for next summer's (Olympic) trials and carry that into the next season."
There is plenty of good talent in California alone to build national champions level teams each year. Schools across the country still recruit the west coast for a reason... I see a couple issues with west coast talent/PAC10 schools:7x7 is big in Texas too. And it seems that fewer top OL and DL prospects are coming from the Lone Star State these days.
1) The universities in the PAC10 have not kept up with investments... in coaches, support staff, etc. The best leave or take jobs in other locations.
2) California seems obsessed with 7x7 camps. Not sure those are the best way to develop football players. I do believe the kids in the trenches are not as developed as those in the south (technique wise..)
3) In the 90's kids who came from Cali to UNL were some of the most successful in the program. Recently, they have brought a lot of attitude and not as much work. Not sure if that is more of "who" UNL recruited or a change in expectations by kids out of HS. I'd be interested in hearing if that is more universal. I just have this sense that HS rules in California are setting a different expectation on hard work compared to kids from other parts of the country. Again, it could be who riley recruited...
4) Sports are an "and" on the west coast. They frankly have more things to do that a kid growing up in Iowa. I hated that comments when people said "there is nothing to do in Nebraska" but there are fewer distractions. It is much easier to stay dedicated.
This all assumes that the SEC/ACC/B12 actually go through with their football seasons, *AND* that it doesn't completely blow up in their faces.
But I agree with the premise, that at least in the B1G you can see coaches and players voicing opposition to having their season postponed/canceled. I'm hearing crickets from the PAC-12. The bigger news was the PAC-12 athletes coming out with a list of outrageous demands to even be willing to come back and play.
Clay is the most fascinating opportunist in sports media. He'll find his market and just hammer it. He leans into a certain kind of iconoclasm and has a great feel for finding slightly less than mainstream audiences who both relish not being mainstream and he can resonate heavily with.
Clay Travis is politically active in a "Save our Confederate memorials" way that makes his questions and comments on the show extremely predictable.
Clay is the most fascinating opportunist in sports media. He'll find his market and just hammer it. He leans into a certain kind of iconoclasm and has a great feel for finding slightly less than mainstream audiences who both relish not being mainstream and he can resonate heavily with.He lost an endorsement deal with Jack Daniel's Distillery a few years ago. They didn't want to be affiliated with his political comments.
That Robert Lee thing was a moment where a lot of what he does came into view. He's here to find something to be offended by, but has a smooth way of doing it.
Yep. You also have two northern schools, one that I love dearly and one that I loathe, that are frankly not culturally so attuned to sports (their noses raised so high). One of the southern schools has 25 miles from school to stadium, and that understates the trek to get there. And the best of them is a small private school that relies heavily on fair-weather in-town fans who glom onto success and step off quickly.Exactly...
There are 40M people in California. USC, Stanford, UCLA, and Berkeley have a combined undergrad enrollment of ~90K students. So over a span of 20 years, you can graduate 2M folks, equal to 5% of California's population, if you assume they all give a shit about college football. But they don't. Both areas are huge for pro sports, although only recently did Los Angeles return to hosting NFL teams.
Then you figure the number of Californians who are transplants. There's a huge immigrant population (~28%ish), so those 11M probably aren't exactly attuned to local college football teams. Then there are the additional 16% who are transplants from other states. Maybe some of them are from adjacent PAC-12 states, but a lot are from "elsewhere", such as me.
So you're left with ~56% of the state being native-born, many of whom went to other colleges and didn't care about college sports or are merely "nominal" PAC-12 team fans--the sort of fair-weather fans that might watch those teams in a big game but otherwise literally don't give a shit. It's not like some areas of the country that you have to declare whether, for example, you're for Auburn or Alabama, at a young age.
And all of those 56% have tons of other things to do on a daily basis.
So college football just isn't huge here.
He lost an endorsement deal with Jack Daniel's Distillery a few years ago. They didn't want to be affiliated with his political comments.And I bet he converted that into evidence he was more persecuted, which in turn was held as a reason his ideas were dangerous and subversive, therefore being worth listening to if you wanted to hear the real truth.
So, CatsbyAZ, I've wondered how you pronounce the "Catsby" part. Does it rhyme with "Gatsby" or with "cats fly"?
The Valley of Ashes is now Flushing Meadows Park. It was the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs.
PAC-12 is back!
Let's only focus on COVID related obstacles this year
Step 2: Butts in the seats!
Let's only focus on COVID related obstacles this year