Hey John: I have written you before. I like your column and am a paid subscriber. I occasionally write a piece called Donnie Duck's Latest on substack.com Am very excited about the Duck game tomorrow. I agree with your prediction about the Ducks losing by less than the point spread. I predict it will be a good, close game. The Pac-1…
Hey John: I have written you before. I like your column and am a paid subscriber. I occasionally write a piece called Donnie Duck's Latest on substack.com Am very excited about the Duck game tomorrow. I agree with your prediction about the Ducks losing by less than the point spread. I predict it will be a good, close game. The Pac-12 is in serious trouble if they ever expect to play in the final four in football again. Each Big 10 school will get around $70 million in tv revenue starting soon. When UCLA and USC join the conference in two years, they will make around $40 million more than each Pac-12 school. The Pac-12 tv deal is a bad joke, and I still blame the former head of the league, your friend and mine, whose name I am glad I forgot . Players can now be paid in college. If the SEC schools get around the same amount as the Big 10 in millions for their tv deal, you can easily see how far behind the Pac-12 is to these two super leagues. I respect Phil Knight and all he has done for so many. I have been a Duck fan for just 60 or so years. It is sad to me that we cannot compete with the big boys in football, and the gap is widening. I guess $40 million can help a football program a lot. The LA schools were smart to leave the Pac-12 when they did. Even though the Ducks have great facilities, until they can fill a 100,000 seat stadium in Eugene, play with the best day in and day out, they will remain a minor program, and I include all of the Pac-12 in this sad state. Football and basketball take in most all revenue to fund all sports, and the Pac-12 is sinking fast. The rich get richer and you will see how far behind the Pac-12 is starting tomorrow. If you think Chip Kelly cannot improve his team with just $40 million in more dollars to work with, and USC too, I disagree. Huge tv money rules all sports. Unless the Pac-12 can pull of a miracle with ESPN very soon, they are doomed. If it takes playing at night, when there are no other tv games, to get paid much more by ESPN, no problem. Otherwise say good by to the Pac-12 as Bill Walton's tournament of champions. Sure glad I have the BIG 10 and SEC channels so I can watch the best games every Saturday! Miss me with the pac-12 channel showing sub-par teams and games. Maybe Walton should change his line, and name the sports he thinks the Pac-12 is champions in. Enjoy the game John, and I am confident our new coach in football is a good hire. GO DUCKS
Donnie, as a long-time Trojan alum and PAC-12 lover, I have to unfortunately agree with your comments. Personally I find the direction that college football is taking to be reprehensible. But my opinions do not count for anything. I either have to tell myself this is a brave new world, totally unfamiliar and very much in opposition to my value system, and I either get with the new program or go home. I very much hope that your Ducks and the Huskies can join us in this new alignment. Stanford, Utah….. maybe down the road. Here’s hoping that somebody or some commission take the reins of big-time college football and guide it to some form that we can all be proud of.
Hey John: I have written you before. I like your column and am a paid subscriber. I occasionally write a piece called Donnie Duck's Latest on substack.com Am very excited about the Duck game tomorrow. I agree with your prediction about the Ducks losing by less than the point spread. I predict it will be a good, close game. The Pac-12 is in serious trouble if they ever expect to play in the final four in football again. Each Big 10 school will get around $70 million in tv revenue starting soon. When UCLA and USC join the conference in two years, they will make around $40 million more than each Pac-12 school. The Pac-12 tv deal is a bad joke, and I still blame the former head of the league, your friend and mine, whose name I am glad I forgot . Players can now be paid in college. If the SEC schools get around the same amount as the Big 10 in millions for their tv deal, you can easily see how far behind the Pac-12 is to these two super leagues. I respect Phil Knight and all he has done for so many. I have been a Duck fan for just 60 or so years. It is sad to me that we cannot compete with the big boys in football, and the gap is widening. I guess $40 million can help a football program a lot. The LA schools were smart to leave the Pac-12 when they did. Even though the Ducks have great facilities, until they can fill a 100,000 seat stadium in Eugene, play with the best day in and day out, they will remain a minor program, and I include all of the Pac-12 in this sad state. Football and basketball take in most all revenue to fund all sports, and the Pac-12 is sinking fast. The rich get richer and you will see how far behind the Pac-12 is starting tomorrow. If you think Chip Kelly cannot improve his team with just $40 million in more dollars to work with, and USC too, I disagree. Huge tv money rules all sports. Unless the Pac-12 can pull of a miracle with ESPN very soon, they are doomed. If it takes playing at night, when there are no other tv games, to get paid much more by ESPN, no problem. Otherwise say good by to the Pac-12 as Bill Walton's tournament of champions. Sure glad I have the BIG 10 and SEC channels so I can watch the best games every Saturday! Miss me with the pac-12 channel showing sub-par teams and games. Maybe Walton should change his line, and name the sports he thinks the Pac-12 is champions in. Enjoy the game John, and I am confident our new coach in football is a good hire. GO DUCKS
Donnie, as a long-time Trojan alum and PAC-12 lover, I have to unfortunately agree with your comments. Personally I find the direction that college football is taking to be reprehensible. But my opinions do not count for anything. I either have to tell myself this is a brave new world, totally unfamiliar and very much in opposition to my value system, and I either get with the new program or go home. I very much hope that your Ducks and the Huskies can join us in this new alignment. Stanford, Utah….. maybe down the road. Here’s hoping that somebody or some commission take the reins of big-time college football and guide it to some form that we can all be proud of.