the power brokers who brokered the calford & smu invitations:Shocky1 said:It’s always great to be back at Pebble Beach. Congratulations to my partner this week and fellow Stanford Cardinal @bwu97 on finishing 2nd, and to tournament champion @JustinRose99 and team champions Ben Silverman and @AaronRodgers12 pic.twitter.com/y8WzwUHhhG
— Condoleezza Rice (@CondoleezzaRice) February 7, 2023
the bears gotta flip one voter to get the acc/wcc deal done, we can all see the finish line
almost all respected athletic directors got trusted relationships with other athletic directors and sometimes even presidents that they can call in favors in return for something in return down the road...but knowlton despite being one of the highest paid athletic directors in the nation at $1,300,000+ is not known outside of the air force & those who play senior league hockey in colorado springs so there's no one he can call to get anything done
reality is that we're gonna need stanford to get that final vote flipped for us...someone like the remarkable (she's a member at both cypress point & augusta national) condoleezza rice (who is actively involved in stanford athletics) is gonna be the dealmaker if the acc invitations come to fruition
as a footnote, shocky (went to stanford summer school between my jr & sr years at stinson beach high school, my berkeley grad tiger moms let me make my own decision re college) is a fan of stanford & its high academic standards in the same respectful way as the ivy league schools (my asu grad daughter taylor tells me that almost half of her 1st dates in nyc are subtle flexs at the harvard club).
100% california golden bear bottom of our heart with love thank you's to:
stanford's condoleezza rice
smu's george bush ii
notre dame's jack swarbrick
we got carried thru draft winds because of their zeus like relentless efforts to broker this deal, this got absolutely nothing to do with the james arthur knowlton aka the con artist (the least respected athletic director in the united states of america & its territories including ibiza) or the well intended 78 year old chancellor christ (who needs to be replaced by adela de la torre)
100 thousand year gratitude#