Pac 12 commissioner Larry Scott says their rep Dan Guerrero "did not vote the way he was supposed to vote" re satellite camps

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New twist in satellite camp ban. Pac-12 commish Larry Scott says their rep, Dan Guerrero, "did not vote the way he was supposed to vote."

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) April 20, 2016
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Mr. Yost

April 21st, 2016 at 10:33 AM ^

...and Shaw doesn't care because they don't serve him any good. He's already got to recruit from solid school systems and top prep programs. He's not worried about finding a sleeper 3* recruit because he's got to find a sleeper 3* recruit who can get into Stanford. 

He didn't have to sell out the south the way he did, but the point was accurate.

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FrankMurphy

April 20th, 2016 at 7:43 PM ^

Wow. That's, umm, unusual.

Guerrero is UCLA's AD. Mike Leach said that 11 out of 12 Pac-12 programs opposed the ban, but didn't identify who the lone dissenter was. I guess we know now.

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Alton

April 20th, 2016 at 7:50 PM ^

This is the list of the people who voted for & against the ban.  I posted this on Monday, but it's worth looking over again.  Eight of the ten are athletic directors.  Timothy Day is a professor and Maggie McKinley is an Associate Athletic Director.

    YES (10 votes)
ACC:  Blake James, Miami (2 votes)
B12:  Timothy Day, Iowa State (2 votes) [Professor]
MWC:  Paul Krebs, New Mexico
P12:  Daniel Guerrero, UCLA (2 votes)
SEC:  Mitch Barnhart, Kentucky (2 votes)
SBC:  Larry Teis, Texas State

    NO (5 votes)
AAC:  Maggie McKinley, Cincinnati [Associate AD]
B1G:  James Phillips, Northwestern (2 votes)
CUSA:  Judith Rose, Charlotte
MAC:  Michael O'Brien, Toledo

If Guerrero had voted the way he was supposed to, it's now 8-7 for the ban.  I'm assuming that the MWC would be the other conference most likely to flip.

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Everyone Murders

April 21st, 2016 at 7:48 AM ^

While FIFA is as crooked as the day is long, their problem is actually the opposite of this.  There are 209 countries with votes, and each one is counted equally.

France, Italy, England, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands?  One vote each.

Kyrgyzstan, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Burundi, Timor-Leste and Djibouti?  One vote each.

FIFA would be far better served if UEFA, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL countries each had five votes, and the likes of Timor-Leste had one.  The one-country, one-vote system in FIFA feeds corruption in that system as much as all other factors combined.

While the results in the satellite camp case were absurd, and the system (PAC12 esp.) obviously subject to abuse, it makes a lot of sense as a matter of principle (and principal!) to allocate more voting power to the Power 5 conferences than to the likes of the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, MAC, etc.

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stephenrjking

April 20th, 2016 at 10:31 PM ^

Something I noticed that's interesting is that Mandel says that the ban that was passed was the ACC plan. The SEC plan, allegedly, was to allow camps within a home state and up to 50 miles from the state's border. Still self-serving, of course, but that would have mitigated virtually all of the player backlash, since they would at least get shots with local schools. So by rushing to oppose Harbaugh and neglecting to even read the legislation or, you know, listen to their own conference or school, the voters have made things far worse than it needed to be. Fools. Also, an inescapable conclusion: one man's aggressive approach and wild success prompted impulsive decision-making and ghastly error. Harbaugh is in their heads. Big time.

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