Am I the only one who doesn’t get Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott’s “China initiative.” He has scheduled Washington to play a basketball game there, and is sending Oregon State coach Craig Robinson to coach a Pac-12 all-star team in China this summer. Why? Scott says it’s the “globalization” of the league, which is the “gateway to the Pacific Rim.” The expenses are staggering, all of which is taken from the pie split to the league’s 12 schools. And the benefit is what? A few more Asian students enrolling in Pac-12 schools someday? It’s excessive and unnecessary.
Pac-12 short stuff: Hoops schedule in China is unnecessary, expensive
Oregon State basketball coach Craig Robinson, center, yells at an offiical during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Corvallis, Ore., Saturday March 8 2014. Oregon State won the game 78-76.(AP Photo/Karl Maasdam)
