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[YodaUte]

Well said, coach.

Now if we can only convince the local media to stop misusing the word “dynamic.”

[YodaUte]

Until we figure out how to defend Arizona’s run game, I don’t think we can identify this game as one we “should win.”

[YodaUte]

Okay. I’ll whine a little bit.

That was really painful. I feel like I just got back from the dentist after getting all my teeth pulled with a pair of rusty pliers. Embarrassing performance by the Utes. Embarrassing performance by the conference. I guess all the talk about the PAC-12 being a good basketball conference was just smoke and mirrors. It’s not likely we’ll see seven teams in the tournament next year. Bummer.

[YodaUte]

Nice win, but way too many of these

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by YodaUte.

[YodaUte]

Obama 

[YodaUte]

So if we in the Mountain time zone aren’t watching these games, how can we expect people in the east to pay any attention to our conference?Yet we bemoan the fact that the PAC12 doesn’t get national respect.   Idiotic,  this is. 

[YodaUte]

Rosen used up all his fairy dust on this one. A lot of those Q4 passes should have been intercepted.

[YodaUte]

So if Fox wants to broadcast USC vs UW, you can sell them the right to do so, but keep rights to simultaneously stream over your service and keep the rights to stream rebroadcasts.
Regarding the game times, I confess I don’t feel too strongly about that aspect. You do, however, have to account for the East Coast. No broadcast product can succeed without gaining traction in the most populous area of the country. Of course your first priority has to be the Southern California market (second largest media market in the country), but you cannot succeed if viewers east of the Mississippi have no access.
Playing at 2 am Eastern Time is not conducive to getting exposure for your league. If you’re going to play late games, at least make the game available for streaming the next morning. Give Bubba a chance to peruse the PAC 12 game before he cracks open a beer and settles in for the NFL games. You could give Bubba two streaming options: stream for free with ads or for $1 with no or limited ads.

[YodaUte]

Yeah, at present your only options are to buy some kind of package, but even Sling makes you pay for content you may not want. I don’t think this model is sustainable. The broadcast climate is changing, and the old model won’t survive. Facebook and Twitter are going to stream individual games. Amazon will let you rent a movie for anywhere from $2 to $6, and that is for content they don’t own. If the PAC 12 Network wanted to sell an individual game for even a paltry $1, they would be ahead of what they’d get for a monthly DirectTV kickback, and they’d still pick up the advertising revenue. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

[YodaUte]

The last time the Utes won in Tempe, the following events also occurred:

U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.

Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Jethro Tull release their album Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die!.

The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the U.S., killing 11 people.

North Vietnam dissolves the Provisional Government of South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.

The space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a Palmdale, California hangar

Patty Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery

U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.

If you remember any of this, I’ll wager you weighed a lot more than 7lb, 4oz