Watch Rich video

 http://www.arizonawildcats.com//allaccess/
cool.....

Bear Down Football news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7e_HANXTM&feature=player_embedd
The news is this: Wildcat football is the new world order of excellence. Above video shows the Cats going through drills. The name of the game is FAst FASt FAST ! Arizona wants fast football players.

Meanwhile in the recruiting war. Arizona has the best staff in the PAC 12 to evaluate and recruit new football players. They are being noticed by the staff in Fairy-land, at UCLA. Gossip has it that the UCLA recruiters call every recruit that Arizona contacts within 24 hours to offer them a scholarship. They have that much fear, or respect for the Arizona recruiting program. Apparently they have no faith in their own staff.

Meanwhile, the North end-zone project at Arizona is plugging along. The contractor has been pouring concrete for several days.
Things are looking good for Arizona Wildcats

Turning up the heat on Direct TV

http://www.pacifictakes.com = Source:
The big question remains on how satellite companies like DirectTV and Dish (or broadband-based services like AT&T U-Verse and FiOs) will be willing to accept the channel and negotiations will probably progress long into the spring, perhaps even into the summer. Just remember that these sort of negotiations generally take time regardless, and eventually there'll be widespread demand on the West Coast, particularly if the Pac-12 decides to keep a premium allotment of games with some of the best matchups available on its network. It'll be hard for these providers to turn down the clamor. Regional sporting events must be distributed or providers will suffer the wrath of their customers.

In many ways, the Pac-12 Network is the first bridge to the future of college athletics. Brian Floyd of Coug Center wrote about this topic when the deal was first inked.

But the former, creating a network carried widely throughout the country, could only be accomplished by withholding a significant stable of inventory. And it couldn't just be the leftovers; There had to be premium content on the Pac-12 Network. Essentially, Scott withheld half the inventory of Pac-12 football games, an average of three a week, for the conference network. And he still secured a $3 billion primary contract with ESPN and FOX.

To call it a coup would be an understatement. By keeping the inventory and promising premium programming on the Pac-12 Network, Scott has sent a message: Carry our network or face the backlash of fans. He's forced the hands of carriers.

In addition to the Pac-12 inventory, the conference should also have room to add inventory from others. For a premium price, a conference such as the Mountain West could, in theory, broadcast games on the Pac-12 Network. It's why you see the Pac-12 creating a media entity to go along with the new television deal. Unlike the Big Ten, the Pac-12 will have full ownership over its network, not a minority stake in it. It all adds up to more profit.

Time to dump NCAA

The New PAC 12 Network is on schedule to open with a huge bang in August. They hired top people in every aspect of the project, Marketing, Digital, TV, and Revenue. The rest of the conferences are watching it closely.
The PAC 12 and Big 10-or whatever they call their conferences now days, have joined to cooperate in promoting their two historic conferences and Networks:  Money, Money, Money.

Rumors are floating that the NCAA is jealous of the new PAC 12 Network. The Network will also go digital on all portable devices in August, ALL OVER THE WORLD !
The NCAA thinks they deserve a cut of the Billion dollar action. WHY?
The NCAA is a leach. They do nothing except take a huge piece of the Bowl revenues. They have high paid bosses who do virtually nothing. Why does college athletics need the NCAA? Why on earth do they deserve a cut of the revenue from the new PAC 12 Network?
It's time to dump the NCAA.

TEXAS NETWORK a BUST ?

People are not happy in the Big 12:
A big challenge for the LHN (TV) is that it serves a niche market, said Adam Swanson, a cable television industry analyst with SNL Kagan. While Texas is a big name with a famous logo and tens of thousands of alumni from coast to coast, it's still just one school.
Major cable and satellite providers can look at regional or national networks such as the Big Ten Network, now called BTN, or the soon-to-launch Pac-12 Network and see more programming punch, Swanson said. Time Warner, Comcast, Cox and Bright House all have deals to carry the Pac-12 Network. Those carriers are in about 40 million homes.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/02/14/texas-asking-fans-for-patience-with-network/

Happy Valentine - day PAC 12 $$$$$

Bryan Fischer: I think the athletic directors at Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA, Washington and Washington State should be sending a Valentine to Larry Scott this year. The Pac-12 commissioner unveiled his Pac-12 Network studios just yesterday, and that's appropriate considering the media deals he negotiated were the biggest reason those schools were able to off the sweetheart deals that landed their new coaches. Do you think the Bruins or Huskies could have afforded the assistant salaries before that money started flowing?
Or that Wazzu was able to land a coach like Mike Leach? I don't think they do.
 Source: http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34839389

Meanwhile, the new North end zone project at AZ is ticking. They stopped operations yesterday due to a cloud burst. Two cranes are now up and ready to start building. All have to wait while the underground work is finished.

PAC 12 Network on schedule

The conference held the groundbreaking for the Pac-12 networks in downtown San Francisco on Monday, about six months before it will hit the air with a national cable television network, six regional networks and a digital network.


"It's truly a seminal moment for the conference," Commissioner Larry Scott said at a ceremony featuring former great athletes from the conference, as well as San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. "It's an exciting time for college sports in general and there's no more exciting place to be than the Pac-12. We've got a great dynamic and bold vision for the future of college sports and the future of our conference."


This network is a major part of that. After reaching a 12-year contract worth about $3 billion last May with Fox and ESPN, Scott announced plans to launch a new conference-owned network to supplement coverage and create more exposure for Pac-12 athletes. 
Source: Online News