Been saying this for a long time. The shade thrown at the PAC in general going back as far as I can recall by national pundits like Corso and Holz served to degrade the brand, and devalue the conference leading to its demise.
Been saying this for a long time. The shade thrown at the PAC in general going back as far as I can recall by national pundits like Corso and Holz served to degrade the brand, and devalue the conference leading to its demise.
“PAC 10 is soft”.
“Conference isn’t tough”
“Play no defense”
From self serving sources who never had any connection to the conference,working for companies (ESPN, Fox, etc) with little financial incentive to support it. Even the pundits with PAC backgrounds always seemed reluctant to say positive things. I distinctly recall Rod Gilmore being essentially bullied into silence when he dared stick up for the conference a few years back. And can you blame him? He’s got a career to keep, and being that “PAC 10/12 guy who thinks they’re actually any good…” was probably a career limiter for the guy. He’s swimming in east coast biased waters.
Narratives set opinion. Back when the PAC was setting new standards with passing games and dynamic offenses that are now the template for 90% of all major programs, instead of a positive narrative of ingenuity, it was called “finesse” by the Corsos of the CF world.
“Finesse” is one word that is destined to have zero respect in football.
The corrosive effect helped do the conference in. Or maybe Corso-ive effect is more apropos.
AMEN...a 20-year continuous smear campaign...only this year, at the PAC's demise, has ESPN talked glowingly of the conference...We play a 9 game schedule, we travel across the country for our non-league games, many times playing two Power5 opponents in the non-conference slate, meanwhile the SEC plays 8 league games, never leaves their southern footprint and is talked about glowingly...check the facts...check the SEC records when they come west (in every sport) and play against the PAC...
The SEC has always manipulated its conference schedules. Years ago, when the SEC only had eight teams, Georgia and Alabama would go years without playing each other. In inter-division play now, they often keep top teams away from each other so as to improve those teams' chances of maintaining top poll positions.
The best teams in that conference usually do not even play each other...They tout the strength of the conference top to bottom, but there are many bottom feeders in that conference. The polls have really become political as the political apparatus of the South is that they all stick together ( a unified confederacy) and vote their own in above the others...I discovered this in 2004 during the CAL-TEXAS debate over the Rose Bowl...Those 9 writers that voted TEXAS above Cal...the one common denominator is that they were all from the South, all from small towns in the South, many who didn't even watch a single minute of CAL football all year long. It's like a microcosm of our political arena...MOB rule.
The Gators game vs Utah this season was their first non-conference game outside the state of Florida since 1991 when they went to Syracuse and lost. They haven't won a non-conference game on the road since 1989 at Memphis.
Been saying this for a long time. The shade thrown at the PAC in general going back as far as I can recall by national pundits like Corso and Holz served to degrade the brand, and devalue the conference leading to its demise.
“PAC 10 is soft”.
“Conference isn’t tough”
“Play no defense”
From self serving sources who never had any connection to the conference,working for companies (ESPN, Fox, etc) with little financial incentive to support it. Even the pundits with PAC backgrounds always seemed reluctant to say positive things. I distinctly recall Rod Gilmore being essentially bullied into silence when he dared stick up for the conference a few years back. And can you blame him? He’s got a career to keep, and being that “PAC 10/12 guy who thinks they’re actually any good…” was probably a career limiter for the guy. He’s swimming in east coast biased waters.
Narratives set opinion. Back when the PAC was setting new standards with passing games and dynamic offenses that are now the template for 90% of all major programs, instead of a positive narrative of ingenuity, it was called “finesse” by the Corsos of the CF world.
“Finesse” is one word that is destined to have zero respect in football.
The corrosive effect helped do the conference in. Or maybe Corso-ive effect is more apropos.
AMEN...a 20-year continuous smear campaign...only this year, at the PAC's demise, has ESPN talked glowingly of the conference...We play a 9 game schedule, we travel across the country for our non-league games, many times playing two Power5 opponents in the non-conference slate, meanwhile the SEC plays 8 league games, never leaves their southern footprint and is talked about glowingly...check the facts...check the SEC records when they come west (in every sport) and play against the PAC...
The SEC has always manipulated its conference schedules. Years ago, when the SEC only had eight teams, Georgia and Alabama would go years without playing each other. In inter-division play now, they often keep top teams away from each other so as to improve those teams' chances of maintaining top poll positions.
The best teams in that conference usually do not even play each other...They tout the strength of the conference top to bottom, but there are many bottom feeders in that conference. The polls have really become political as the political apparatus of the South is that they all stick together ( a unified confederacy) and vote their own in above the others...I discovered this in 2004 during the CAL-TEXAS debate over the Rose Bowl...Those 9 writers that voted TEXAS above Cal...the one common denominator is that they were all from the South, all from small towns in the South, many who didn't even watch a single minute of CAL football all year long. It's like a microcosm of our political arena...MOB rule.
The Gators game vs Utah this season was their first non-conference game outside the state of Florida since 1991 when they went to Syracuse and lost. They haven't won a non-conference game on the road since 1989 at Memphis.
They are all that way...When they do come West, they usually get their ass handed to them...that isn't covered on ESPN.