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Dwight Lilly's avatar

Another great article John. OK, again I'm going to be a bit surly in my comment. I'm tired of being in a conference that has weak leadership top to bottom. I'm tired of always taking the high road. Maybe it's a holdover from the hippy era on the coast or AD's that sample the local weed before each meeting. In all seriousness, in my opinion, appearing weak and always opening the door for others...manners is often taken as a sign of weakness by those who are not nice all the time. Like media partners, other conferences, the NCAA. Those that want a competitive edge. Does anybody reading your article believe the SEC, BIG 10, BIG East or BIG 12 would have been nice to USC and UCLA? I don't. And i wouldn't were I making the decisions.

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Glenn Benson's avatar

Personally treating USC and UCLA so sweetly makes me sick. It reminds me of a particular political party that always wants to be bipartisan while the other wants to destroy everything in its path or as I like to say bringing a knife to a gunfight. Talk about a cakewalk for USC...contrast that with Cal who gets 4 road games against Oregon, Washington, Utah and UCLA...maybe after another 3-8 season Cal will get smart and give all this up for either a stepped down "student athlete program that is not an oxymoron, or work on getting more Nobel Prizes, something that the other schools could never compete with.

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