Canzano once again misrepresents the distribution of the revenue pie, understating the slice from ticket sales, donations, and attendant revenue (concessions, parking, etc.)--he calls this the 'potatoes'--while overstating the slice coming from media rights and sponsorships ('the meat'). just not true, at UO and most other P-12 schools (all of whom, except private SC and Stanford, publish these financials every year).

which just serves his continual agenda of attacking Larry Scott, cuz the tabloid schock-jock habitat demands a villain at whom the plebes can shake their fist and shout. if JC were asked to write a column about diminishing steelhead runs on the Trask, it would no doubt be Larry's fault.

UA reminds me of Moda health insurance a decade ago when the ACA Obamacare exchanges were first implemented in Oregon. Moda went in hard and heavy with almost-too-good-to-be-true, low cost policies, and signed up the most subscribers. it was not sustainable, and a few years later rates jumped like frogs in a dynamite pond.
UA wanted to make a splash and compete with the Nike and adidas Big Boys, so it overbid, pure and simple. UCLA, Cal, and the rest just took the money. and now UA wants out.

I'm still hopeful that we'll have some kind of stripped down college football and Fall athletic season, but I don't expect to be attending any games. it will all come back again, eventually; I just feel bad for the kids who will have lost a year. the rest of us have bigger things to worry about.  

Well, I am no fan of Larry Scott either so I appreciate Canzano taking shots at him because other than Jon Wilner, everyone else seems to shrug their shoulders and spin these tales of financial success "coming soon." When you are paid the kind of money Scott is(I believe he was the highest paid Power 5 Commissioner last year...not sure now....the results should be much better. He has had a nice run but it is time for a change. He is so smart he moved football and basketball championship games to a state(Nevada) where the Pac-12 does not even have a school???  No other conference has done that. His bloated salary and headquarter office costs are absurd. I do not particularly like Canzano but I like him better than Scott. 

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