USC hires Grand Canyon’s Andy Stankiewicz to rebuild Trojans’ baseball program
Ryan Kartje and Iliana Limon Romero (LA Times) — USC has hired Andy Stankiewicz (17) to be the Trojans’ new baseball coach, turning to a well-respected veteran to rebuild a fractured program that has the most national titles at the Division I level but hasn’t reached the postseason since 2015.
Stankiewicz, an Inglewood native, former Major League Baseball infielder and four-time Western Athletic Conference coach of the year, is leaving Division I Grand Canyon University in Arizona to lead the Trojans, a source not authorized to comment publicly ahead of a team meeting Sunday morning told The Times. The news was first reported by D1Baseball’s Kendall Rogers.
USC fired coach Jason Gill on June 6 after three turbulent seasons leading the Trojans. The team finished last in the Pac-12 Conference, and Gill closed with a 60-59 record. His tenure was marred not only by two losing seasons, but also two university investigations first reported by The Times — one into his conduct and another into possible NCAA rules violations. USC’s compliance investigation found only one secondary violation.
Sources told The Times multiple players were poised to leave the program if a coaching change wasn’t made.
USC athletic director Mike Bohn attributed some of Gill’s struggles to unique pressure applied by COVID-19 and vowed to find a coach capable of helping the Trojans compete for national championships.
High-profile candidates were linked to the job, including former MLB shortstop and Texas volunteer assistant coach Troy Tulowitzki, but all reportedly passed on the opportunity. The challenges of rebuilding the roster and adapting to disruptions caused by construction ahead of the 2028 Olympics complicated the search.
USC has won 12 NCAA titles, but Stankiewicz is its fifth coach in 16 years. USC made just one NCAA regional (2015) appearance during that stretch while cycling through coaches who combined to produce just two winning seasons.
Stankiewicz has a 341-239-2 career coaching record and led Grand Canyon University to regular-season Western Athletic Conference titles in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021.
latimes.com
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I’m thinking Baker Mayfield coming in to push Sam Darnold to hold on to the #1 spot is totally perfect for Darnold. He couldn’t have asked for anything any better. Mayfield’s an average NFL QB, pretty much straight down the line. If Darnold, with a good lead in the Carolina system with this familiar team, can’t beat out Mayfield, he’s a clipboard holder. A few people will always debate whether another year for Darnold under Clay Helton would have helped him avoid some pro issues, like his persistent recklessness. Since I’m still a big Darnold fan, I’m eager to see… Read more »
IMO, had he had better coaches at USC, he would have benefitted by staying another year. Given the coaches he had, he’s probably had better coaching in the pros. I like him too, but it’s on him at this point.
Unfortunately, Darnold is not even an average NFL QB. He is a brilliant playmaker at times, but nothing more than that. Baker will be the starter, which is saying something.
Wow. The Browns absorbed $10.5 mil of Baker Mayfield’s new deal with Carolina to get him out of Cleveland. Gotta be careful who you draft.
And Baker gave up $3.5 million. I’m a Browns fan and this is par for the course. Baker had his issues, from
size to poor mechanics to locker room, but Browns did him nasty IMO.
For what it’s worth, a guy I trust who is tied into CFB at a very high level just texted me completely out of the blue:
“ND ain’t breaking to the Big Ten.”
I will follow up with anything else that I can. I know that’s not a lot, unless it really is.
The ACC is their home. That might open the door for UW and Oregon. An 18 team, coast to coast, conference. Stanford, Cal, WSU and OSU headed to the Mountain West. The rest of the Pac to Big 12. Just my guess at the moment.
Shotgun Spratling (USCFootball.com) — “Andy Stankiewicz has made his first hire as a Trojan. “USC’s new baseball head coach has locked up one of the top coaches on the market as his first assistant coach, hiring Travis Jewett Thursday to become the Trojans’ hitting coach and recruiting coordinator. “‘I’m so excited to announce Travis Jewett coming on board to be our recruiting coordinator and assistant coach,’ Stankiewicz said in a statement released by the school. “He’s as good as they get in the country. I’ve never been around someone with more energy or passion for what he does in working with these young… Read more »
Today I was talking with a former STAN player who remains involved with the people who decide STAN’s future. He said he has no clue what STAN wants to do, and neither does STAN. At least we know that ORE and UW are begging the Big Ten for a spot. STAN as an independent? My disillusioned friend says maybe, but really couldn’t (or just wouldn’t) offer any guidance, except they just don’t care in Palo Alto near as much as USC does. His last sentence to me — “I’m gonna become a USC fan. I kind of already am now.… Read more »
Stanford has no clue what they want? If you don’t have a plan by now and executing it you are toast. Welcome to the Mountain West Trees!
Isn’t it summer break? I mean the Stanford admins can’t be expected to cut short their Cabo, Hawaii, or Italy vacations. This is a concern. This is serious business fellas. I know I’m preaching to the choir. I want Stanford. Think it will help securing ND, but most important secure that Bay Area media market and its $$$. That’s all that matters. And always need, despite the occasional challenges, those opponents to get the backups some reps (although I must admit the 1971 Rose Bowl was my first time crying after a Buckeye loss). I hope the Big Ten shifts… Read more »
Scioto have you visited the Bay Area lately? It is truely another country. The leftist wokeness has them tied up in knots. Nothing gets done for fear of offending some group or another. In a lot of ways the rest of California is that way. Only USC alums still believe in a meritocracy. UCLA got dragged along only to secure the LA market. Football is a physical game played by men. The Bay Area think they above that. Forget about Stanford and Cal.
I had a lot of business in SF and Bay Area in the 1995-2005 time period. Breaks my heart what has been allowed, indeed mandated, to happen with San Francisco. Thought SFO was one of the world’s most beautiful cities. I haven’t been back in more than 10 years. But I think you are looking at this with poli-social and football eyes. Doesn’t matter how many watch. What matters is how many buy cable or streaming. Plus, while Big Ten schools will make $70M-$100M +, mainly from football media rights, they bring in $1B in research, mainly medical. With Cal… Read more »
Allen and John,
you should do a poll for which BIG 10 road trip most are trying to plan or looking forward to. It be interesting to hear where the TDBers are headed.
Crazy times. SEC looking to add Clemson, FSU, Miami, and North Carolina. Which can happen fairly easily as ESPN owns the rights to both the SEC and ACC.
BIG10 will add ND at some point, and then most likely Oregon, Washington.
If that happens the Big 12, PAC, and ACC will then be picked clean of a few other programs by the two leagues and they will be division 2 joining the non power 5 groups. It could all happen before the season begins.
crazy times! So glad Bohn pulled this off and we are settled.
James Caan, who burst onto the scene in The Godfather, has died (cause unannounced) at the age of 82. RIP Sonny.
The tough-rep rodeo enthusiast and participant was also very football connected too, having attended MICH ST for a couple of years, where he even played QB for Duffy Daugherty in 1956.
Caan memorably played RB Brian Piccolo in the tear-jerker Brian’s Song. He also played Jimmy “Killer” Kilgannon, a college football star who suffered a serious head injury in the ’69 flick The Rain People. My personal Caan favorite is Misery, a Stephen King story.
He was always so smooth, along with Steve McQueen and James Coburn. Misery was great so was Sonny Corleone.
I also liked Caan a lot in 1974’s The Gambler, a sad classic that was much better than the phony 2014 remake starring Mark Wahlberg.
Buddy the Elf’s dad was great as well.
“look how they messed with my boy!”
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen The Godfather, but I’m probably not done.
I still remember seeing it amidst wild lines on opening day in March ’72 in Hollywood with a couple of other brothers from the Sig House (one whose name was Vito Caruso). Everyone had read Mario Puzo’s book and the nation was literally agog with expectations in anticipation of the massive release.
The movie and theme song (written by Nino Rota) seemed stunningly perfect.
Offensive line recruiting is still a work in progress Antonio Morales (The Athletic) — USC made a push for five-star offensive line prospect Francis Mauigoa, who visited during the Trojans’ big recruiting weekend in the middle of June. The Trojans were among Mauigoa’s finalists but the highly touted recruit chose to play for Miami and Mario Cristobal, who is one of the best offensive line recruiters in the country. USC has now been in the mix for two five-star offensive linemen since Riley arrived — Mauigoa (2023) and Josh Conerly Jr. (2022) — and it’s come up short on both… Read more »
It ain’t over till it’s over. Someone will come along. He can only recruit as fast as they let him. I see he has offers all over the place, but a lot of kids would prefer to stay closer to home.
I am still betting some linemen will transfer or decomit from Oregon and Washington or other Pac schools.
Let’s face it, USC’s OL recruiting has been underwhelming, at least if you believe in the star-eval system. It’s surely never all about the stars, but they do matter.
We all know USC’s gonna be fine in the trenches eventually, but their current NIL approach to recruiting seems confusing and deficient so far compared to a few other programs, and the really big names in the trenches are waving the Trojans off.
Hopefully, Washington OL Micah Banuelos will choose USC when he announces in about a week. But ORE is looking once again as a stumbling block here.
It has to be partly about the perception top rated linemen have about USC’s recent past, never mind the PC years. Todays HS athletes were too young to notice that far back. The best thing Riley & Hensen can do is develop the linemen that are here already into 4-5 star level overachievers and showcase them during the season. Nothing gets the attention of young recruits more than winning games. December NSD will be crucial to preparing for Big Ten play.
Ducks Again Beat Huskies for Washington’s Best Prospect “ORE has added another blue-chip prospect to its 2023 recruiting class. “Caleb Pressley, (6-0, 180) a four-star CB, announced his commitment to the Ducks on Tuesday. He chose ORE over UW, ALA, UCLA, MICH ST and A&M. “Pressley is the No. 1 player in Washington, No. 9 CB and No. 78 overall prospect in the class of 2023 in the 247Sports Composite, making him the top-ranked player in UO’s class. It’s the second straight year ORE has landed the top player from the state of Washington, with Pressley joining OT Josh Conerly… Read more »
Well …..Will Sam Darnold ever start another game in the NFL ? Per NFL TRADE RUMORS .Com >>>>>> Browns trading Baker Mayfield to the Carolina Panthers for a 4th or 5th round Draft Pick .
I really thought Darnold would succeed in the NFL somewhere as a starter. He seems to have dug himself into a backup persona. I think he’s got one more year to prove he can handle the starter spot. He’s certainly got a big advantage over Mayfield for now, who has to learn a new system entirely and will be playing catchup. Should be very interesting in Carolina. Darnold vs Mayfield. I like it!
Wound up being a copy of Mark Sanchez with the same results. Wanted out early before he was truly ready, drafted by the same team that gave their QBs no chance succeeding, let alone kept them healthy and it will be a matter of time before Sam joins Mark on the outside looking in. Hope they both invested their money wisely?
I came across my Pac12+ND button collection today. All but the bottom row will be obsolete in a couple years!
Debt-laden UCLA Sports was facing Armageddon on a grim trajectory to cut Olympic sports until it moved to the Big Ten
Ben Bolch (LAT) — “It was a splashy move with a quiet beneficiary.
“Given its perilous athletic department finances, UCLA faced the prospect of cutting sports had the school not agreed to bolt for the Big Ten Conference.
“The timing isn’t certain and the number of teams that would have been affected isn’t known, but the Bruins were headed toward an Olympic sports Armageddon without the infusion of cash that will accompany its departure from the Pac-12 Conference in 2024…”
latimes.com
And considering there’s no way they get an invite into the B1G by their own value and without USC leading the way, they ought to be USC’s biggest fan, or at least extremely grateful. This gives us even more to lord over the little gutties, it just keeps getting better.
Boy it feels like USC is just carrying along its poor worthless brother/son. Whatever new found cash they get, they will probably just squander it. Typical State of California government institution mismanagement. Of course, worthless Ruins will brag to everybody and anybody how great they are that the BIG wants them. Does Joe Biden-Hunter Biden, James Carter-Billy Carter have any similarity here?
Maybe instead of Ruins I will refer to them as Billy-Hunter, like The Cat, you have to be a TDB reader to get it!😂
GT, the problem with your analogy is that if the bruins are Hunter & Billy, that would make SC joe and jimmy….🤔
You are right Atl DDS, comparing USC with 2 of the worst presidents is a problem. 😯There is a lot to disagree with on issues and performance with Jimmy and Joe but you have to admit they did a lot more with their lives than Billy and Hunter. There probably some better analogies out there. Got one?😎
How about John Kennedy vs his drunk little brother Teddy?
I’ll never forget Teddy’s post luncheon line about the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa: “Let’s hear it for Mike McGwire and Sammy Sooser”. LOL
UCLA’s 108 million deficit left them on the brink, as you say, of cutting sports until the Big 10 bailed them out. I should be above wishing that they weren’t invited and left to fend for themselves, but I’m not, Ha! Their alumni and fans should be kind to Trojans for years to come because I doubt they get an invite without SC. They definitely needed us more than we needed them, and I admit it’s better for the city when both prestigious Universities thrive. I wish Notre Dame would make up their minds soon because, if they don’t accept,… Read more »
It’s anyone’s guess what ND’s timetable is for deciding how long they want to remain independent. Could be three days, three weeks, or three years. But I like the idea of STAN, CAL, ORE and UW all twisting in the wind while they wrestle with the Big 12’s overtures towards the Arizona schools, UTAH and CU to produce results, or not. If those four leave, I don’t see any hope for the Pac-Whatever to keep on truckin’, unless SDS, BOISE ST, BYU and FRESNO ST were brought in to make an already weak conference much weaker. It’s kind of fun… Read more »
I know that I would hate to see all these schools we have partnered with, rivaled against, lost to and also beaten get hung out to dry with no hope of a future. Cal I am sure doesn’t care about sports period, but the rest have tried through the years to keep up. Just when perhaps WA and OR St could have respectable teams the conference prepares to fold. ucla with money will be able to afford to fire Chipper and get a coach that cares about his program.
Actually, I love that USC left them all behind with this brilliant secret Big Ten plan, and finally looked out for itself. Yahoo! I’m sure they’ll all survive at some level, maybe even get lucky with a Big Ten or SEC bid when the top 40 get chosen. Maybe ND will drag STAN (assuming they care, which isn’t clear as Olympic Sports and the Director’s Cup seem to be their real cup of tea) along as its “travel partner” somewhere. For now, let them all wallow in their own self-created, egotistical, obscure abyss. But that may not be for long.… Read more »
ND is obviously negotiating how big of a sugar daddy NBC is willing to be to determine their next move. If NBC ponies up to match what the Big Ten can offer, the Irish aren’t going anywhere. However, there is no law/rule that states the super conferences have to include ND in its playoff and that could take some money off the table for ND. It would be a slam dunk for the superconferences if NBC wanted to be part of their TV package. That by all means would give ND little choice but to join The Big Ten. Just… Read more »
You have to remember ND still has a rights contract with ACC and have to negotiate through that. It could get very costly to get out of it. That could be part of the reason nobody is saying anything.
I don’t feel too bad for George K. He shot himself in the foot when he voted against expanding the playoff. He and the ACC commissioner really took it in the shorts after voting with the “alliance” on that one. If the playoff expanded to include conference champs, I’m sure we’d at least consider staying in PAC 12.
Some would say this is a little late now. What does this mean for Pac-12 members who may be looking at the Big Ten and Big 12 for life rafts?
Who is going to negotiate with an entity that will not exist, maybe at all, certainly not in its present form.
Would sure seem to me you would want to go into negotiations with your guns loaded and something of value to put on the table. These guys have nothing. That’s why they are academics and not business men. CLUELESS!!
Of course this could all be worthless talk just to save face from the position they know they are really in.
Interesting news on Facebook this morning had the PAC 12 and Big 12 in merger talks. Also the 24/7 post talking about all time head to head competition between USC (Ucla) and big 10 teams. USC is entering as a dominant player. I don’t think that would have continue if Helton were still on board. USC will never be the WSU of the Big 10, but if they don’t perk up they’ll be just a run of the mill team.
Sorry, but I’m not buying that USC will ever be just a “run-of-the-mill team” in the Big Ten. Under no circumstances do I see that occurring based on my view from the cheap seats. JMHO.
Just like always, the PAC-12 has an exaggerated opinion of themselves way beyond reality. Yet they have very little to back up their egomania. Why USC has put up with this as long as they have is beyond me.
It means the same folks that cheered SC being unfairly sanctioned (although it hurt them), backed Larry Scott and his parity agenda, and thought Helton an excellent coach are still calling the shots.
I like George K a lot. He’s smart (even if USC and Mike Bohn duped the crap out of him), so I’m going to assume he adds some intellectual horsepower to whatever this freshly gutted Pac-10 is going to do to get itself out of this horrendous mess.
I think the new Pac-10 with this statement is in part simply trying to get a feel for its valuation post-no USC/UCLA. They have to know exactly where they are in this arena right now, regardless of all the uncertainty, to compete in the shark feeding frenzy going forward.
Very interesting conversation between C. Cowherd and J. Klatt on Youtube, posted late on the 4th.
My take away from Colin and Klatt, suddenly Washington, Oregon and possibly Notre Dame are on the outside looking in.
Wow. Apparently, the Big Ten is ONLY interested in ND. I was kind of shocked by that. Regardless of ND’s decision, ORE and UW will not be voted in because they simply don’t add enough to what the Big Ten wants academically and athletically without creating too many mouths to be fed. Pure economics. It looks like the Big 12 will take the best of the remaining Pac-12 and do their best with that membership, possibly creating two tiers of competition within the expanded league to share revenues slightly differently. Always having the haves pay full boat for the have-nots… Read more »
But in the fully woke Pac-12, communism is a good thing., so there.
Classic socialism/communism tension in that those at the bottom love it but those at the top hate it. The two threads in the conversation that caught my attention were the one about economics making it undesirable to go any bigger unless it’s ND. The implication was that WA, Stanford and OR just won’t bring the value justifying their piece of the pie. That’s gonna be a bitter pill for them to swallow, especially OR, as they fancy themselves a big boy, although without any results to prove it. The second thread was about a tiered payout system for the “Leftover… Read more »
Don’t know why anyone would be shocked about the Big Ten not wanting Oregon & Washington. #1- They don’t have a big enough following & market worth an equal cut of revenue from the other Big Ten Schools and #2- There is no danger of the SEC grabbing either school being so far away. The SEC will no doubt consider Miami, Clemson, maybe North Carolina & FSU. Now what hasn’t been discussed yet…… will some of the schools in both superconferences be asked to leave, like Rutgers, Northwestern, Vanderbuilt, etc where they either are not competitive enough or carry a… Read more »
It’s a full-on winner-take-most cage match brawl between the Big Ten and the SEC. I don’t mind seeing both ORE and UW go down the tubes if they have to play second-tier football because there’s only a Power 2 now, no longer a Power 5. Fine with me. But we know that ORE and UW to the Big Ten would be a very nice addition of the Washington and Oregon markets. Plus, those schools have A LOT of Calif fans. Plus, it would help USC’s scheduling in the Big Ten. I think in reality that both the Ducks and the… Read more »
The big takeaway I’m getting from various people like Klatt is that a conference like the Big 10 doesn’t need to add anyone else who doesn’t bring enough value to offset splitting up that financial pie in any more pieces. The rest of the members wouldn’t vote to reduce their share unless it’s someone like Notre Dame, and they look like they are in no hurry to decide because they know they will still be accepted in a year or two or three. So, it’s my feeling that it’s goodbye to the rest of the PAC and that they will… Read more »
This whole reduction of the major players of CFB to the Power 2 is one of the most fascinating things I have ever witnessed in sports. We’re right in the middle of this massive expansion extravaganza which will fully define who controls CFB going forward and through the next round of mind-boggling media contract expansions. USC and UCLA snuck right into the Big Ten at the perfect time, monetizing their products in the new NIL world while cutting their Pac-12 competition directly off from their sources of prestige and in some cases talent. There’s so many ways this could all… Read more »
Thanks for turning me on to that Cowherd/Klatt podcast VT. I always love when they are on together on his Fox show, but this was a long, great segment/analysis on the move to the Big 10 and what it means for college football. What I especially liked is having 20 plus minutes to talk about it without the TV restraints, and Colin wasn’t as bombastic as he can sometimes be, and was more subdued but very insightful, and I’ve always respected Klatt’s opinions and analysis of the sport. I just think he is the very best at it without needing… Read more »
The only guy i feel bad for is George K., the new Pac-12 commissioner. He seemed very adept and if anyone could have saved the Pac, I suspect it would have been him.
I think George should apply for a job with the Big 10.
I don’t think George could have ever saved the Pac-12 with a sufficient media rights deal compared to the Big Ten and the SEC. But I really like him. Hope he lands well when his Pac-12 gig gets old. I think he still has a great future.
REPORT: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado And Utah Are Meeting With The Big 12
daileycaller.com
It sure looks like that is going to happen. I assume UW and Oregon will go Big 10. WAU and Oregon state will be travel partners in???? Cal and Stanford leadership would love to drop football all together. Pac 12 could blow up by the end of the week.
I can’t believe ‘furd would drop football. They were the original West Coast football power. Berzerkley, well, they are so insanely left wing i would not be surprised at anything they did–plus the UC system is broke anyway.
The Big 10 ends up with 16 teams, the SEC with 16, the Big 12 with 16. I could see WSU, OSU, Stanford, Cal merging with the Mountain West to have 16. But that still leaves Washington, Oregon and Notre Dame in need of a home. The Big 10 with 18-19 teams seems unwieldy. Notre Dame could be a full member of the ACC but that makes 15 in the ACC. 2 west coast teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference? Crazy! Where will it all end?
Oh well more fun than wondering when the stock market crash will stop.
5-Star OT Francis Mauigoa committed to MIA over ALA, USC and UF. Not a shocker.
I really thought USC had him. Miami though, that is kind of weird but these days anything goes. Was it the money? The school? The HC? Wasn’t he a music major or something to do with music?
Colin Cowherd ….Just Now . ….If he was asked to name the top 4 programs in Big-10 (once SC joins Big-10) his response >>>>> (in no particular order )….”Ohio State …..Mich ……..SC …….Penn State ” <<<<<<< COULD BE FUN ……FIGHT ON !!!!!
Just another moon shot for USC
Colin Cowherd on USC’s pitch to Lincoln Riley:
“When they pitched him, and I know everybody on that call, they said, ‘We’re having the Olympics in this city, where having Super Bowls in this city, be aware that we’re going to take moon shots here. We’re going BIG,…BIG.'”
No Surprise here >>>>>>> Having been on Vacation for the last 10 days or so Colin Cowherd who just got back to work today spent a fair amount of his show opening today on the USC Going to the Big-10 . No Surprise …… A …..He likes it …….and B he was not surprised considering the current state of the Pac-12.
Here’s a 1964 fireworks show from the Coliseum with distinctive Mudd Hall (I took a philosophy class there) mysteriously showing a time of 7:25 for some reason.
Back then, Pac-12 was called the AAWU (American Association of Western Universities), which included USC, UCLA, STAN, CAL, UW, WSU, ORE and ORE ST.
Happy July 4th! Woo hoo! Be safe!
Hey, batter, batter…
As a righty infielder, Andy Stankiewicz was in the majors from ’92-’98 (Yankees, Astros, Expos, Diamondbacks).
He batted .241, hit four home runs, and had 59 runs batted in.
“The challenges of rebuilding the roster and adapting to disruptions caused by construction ahead of the 2028 Olympics complicated the search.” Really, they are going to tear down Dedeaux field to put in swimming pools?! 🙄 They couldn’t upgrade the swim stadium at the colliseum? Where will baseball play during construction? Dodger Stadium? Will SC get a new baseball Field? Where? Anyway the Olympics are 8 years away. AS has MLB experience, college head coach experience and success (even if the schedule was soft), went to HS and college in LA, combined with NIL and support from Admin lets hope… Read more »
It is like USC baseball isn’t even to the corner yet as the wheels have fallen off so badly. New coach needs to pull back in his players from the portal and install confidence that he can do the job. Then recruit, like crazy. Baseball is tough, but the new coach needs to use ALL the tools available like scholarships outside of athletic, grants, and other opportunities available to build the roster back. Make those long road trips in the future sound glamorous because in the end they will be.
This guy was SO bad. It boggles the mind to think of him wasting insane amounts of Pac-12 rent money in San Francisco, all the while adopting so many other disastrous policies as old Larry stood by, with the complete permission of the Pac-12 prezzes, collected his $50 mil in salary alone, and watched the Pac-12 burn.
The destruction created by Scott is enormous. What a horribly inept and egotistical commissioner.
It begs the question- who was( is) the absolute worst at executing their job:
1) Scott
2) Biden
3) Helton
Talk about a race to the bottom.
I would normally think given how bad this has all turned out for them that schools like Oregon State and Stanford might have a cause of action against Larry Scott. I mean, he wasn’t just inept — he literally did not care. It was a massive dereliction of duty that was allowed to occur because the Pac-12 schools were stupid in doing a bad contract with him and then not holding him accountable for anything. USC, too, led by Haden and Swann, played a large role in letting it happen. So, looking at this thing, I surmise that none of… Read more »
Rock, you remember the kind of football teams Oregon had before Phil came around? OSU used to crush them. Everyone wanted them for their homecoming game, including WASH. St.
Yes Jamaica — Oregon is definitely a modern creation. For all that Phil Knight has done, he hasn’t been able to buy a national championship, and thus, their standing count on that is still printed right on the sides of their shiny helmets! It will not get any easier for them now if the Pac12 fully implodes as expected.
You could add Pat Haden and Lynn Swann to the list.
Hey PN, you left out Lynn Swann.
Larry Scott and the PAC-12 presidents-ADs deserve eachother IMO.