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NO, HE DIDN'T SAY THAT. It's not often I feel any sort of moral responsibility in my sports posting job, but after seeing how much traction the following Tweet got yesterday, I feel like I need to clear something up.
Listen, if Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens actually went on the radio and said he wanted the Pac-12 to plant a flag in Ohio Stadium, I would have had that shit posted on the front page of this website with a gigantic blockquote within ten minutes. You can count on that.
But if you notice, that quote is nowhere to be found on Eleven Warriors dot com. And that's because Mullens never said it. Honestly, he didn't even come close to saying anything like that, nor was anything he said even remotely provocative or frankly, all that interesting.
In fact, if you're a regular reader of the Skull Session, you already read the quote in question two days ago, and you likely thought it was completely innocuous and totally uncontroversial (and most notably, free of any language that includes "flag-planting").
Here it is again:
“This league has won more national championships when you combine all sports, than anybody,” Mullens said. “But at the end of the day, because of the visibility of football, that carries a disproportionate share of all of these college conferences. We have to take advantage of our opportunities. A lot of those come in the postseason, but we’re going to have some great opportunities in the non-conference segment this fall. We’ll have one, even though its game two and we’re focused on game one Ryan….but the chance to take a trip to Ohio State, we would’ve loved to have them last year, but the chance to go out and compete against what many believe will be a top three, top five team on the road, will give us a chance to show what Pac-12 football is like.”
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