that’s a great way to sum things up – it’s so frustrating seeing hansen sitting around doing nothing and waiting to move on things… i really hope they can bring in a guy with some vision and understanding of the progress the conference needs to make on the national scale.

i listened to the interview and as a transplanted oregonian living in dc, i totally understand the point he was trying to make with regard to the national time slots for games. the games are always on late out here and most of my co-workers and friends in the area don’t even pay attention to the conference because the games are never on at reasonable times. out of sight, out of mind.

but as commisioner you can’t just accept that and say “well we wouldn’t get good national spots anyway” he should fight for the conference and push espn and other networks to give the pac 10 better spots. he’s clearly overlooking the fact that teams like ucla in basketball (with their recent final four runs) and usc in football (bcs bowl success) have been so prominent in recent years that (for better or worse) they have given the conference legitimate leverage and interest on a national scale. it’s his duty as commissioner to take the successes of those teams and go to espn and other national outlets and fight for better coverage! it’s an outrage that he’s willing to just sit back and do nothing and live with the lame excuse of “well espn wouldn’t give us a good rotation of timespots so we’re happy with fox sports” – this is not the WAC or MAC, its the freakin Pac 10, so called “conference of champions” so start acting like it and play that freakin card!

alright, i’m done venting – but i’m a diehard ducks fan/alum who has found it so frustrating trying to keep up with the school and conference out here on the east cost, having to deal with the constant “east coast bias” that unfortunately is fueled by the laziness of our commissioner and the lack of vision to push exposure of his conference outside of the pacific and mountain time zones.

thank god for blogs like this that call out the guy – keep it up guys!

just to follow-up my previous rant, you guys probably saw the nba was pac 10 heavy in the first round last night…

it’s a good thing the conference has great national coverage of basketball huh?

at least the nba realizes the skill in the pac 10… to bad the rest of the country doesn’t get to see it very often on national broadcasts. thanks tom, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.