Comparison:
We all know now that the Pac-12 CEO Group turned into a disjointed, double-crossing, back-stabbing pack of gunslingers. The leaders may have smiled at each other above the table, but they were pointing pistols at each other beneath it.
John Canzano finds the western pull of gunfighter imagery simply too strong not to use. Hence PAC-12 decisionmakers smile, but are packing serious hardware under the table as they made the decisions and deals that spelled the end of the 108-year-old college athletic conference.
Context:
[UW President Ana Mari] Cauce wrote me a letter early last college football season. I’d ripped the Pac-12’s CEO Group in a column earlier that week for its failure of leadership. That room of conference presidents was supposed to be the last line of defense for the 108-year-old conference. It was supposed to be filled with academics who understood that college athletics were just part of the campus experience, not the driving force.
We all know now that the Pac-12 CEO Group turned into a disjointed, double-crossing, back-stabbing pack of gunslingers. The leaders may have smiled at each other above the table, but they were pointing pistols at each other beneath it.
‘You are 100 percent correct that all of us presidents, and especially those like myself who had been serving on the executive board, bear responsibility for any and all decisions that resulted in the devaluation of our conference that led to eight teams leaving,‘ Cauce wrote in her letter to me.
Citation:
Canzano, John. “Change keeps Coming for Washington Huskies.“ The Baldfaced Truth, substack, 12 June 2024. Web.
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