Larry Scott,Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings， the Pacific-12 Conference commissioner, flew to Beijing on Sunday to start an apparently unprecedented effort by a college sports league to establish itself in a foreign country.
Scott plans to spend four days there meeting with various officials to put together a “road map” for a way to expand the presence of Pac-12 universities in China. While Scott has his eyes on Central America, South America, India and other Asian nations in the long term, his immediate priority is establishing the Pac-12 in China.
Scott said in a telephone interview Saturday that he expected the Pac-12 to play games in China in the next three to five years, and that he hoped the league’s cable network would someday be available there.
There have been college football games played overseas, and dozens of colleges have sent teams in other sports on foreign tours, but the Pac-12’s initiative to become more involved in China is believed to be the first concentrated effort by a league to establish itself overseas. Pac-12 presidents and athletic directors say there is a strong desire for the results to transcend sports, hoping that an increased presence in China will lead to recruitment of future students and positive cultural experiences for their athletes who travel there.
“As the world shifts from a Eurocentric historical pattern to a more broad globalcentric pattern, the Pacific Basin and Pacific Rim are ever more important to who we are and where we’re going,” said Arizona State’s president, Michael Crow.
There are few specifics so far, but Scott said this fact-finding mission would eventually hatch an international plan.
Notre Dame and Stanford have discussed playing their 2013 football game in China instead of in California. Oregon, with its strong Nike ties through the company’s chairman, Phil Knight, also has a strong interest in China, a focal point for Nike.
The future of football in China is not as certain as that of other sports with more traditional ties to the country. Scott said he was optimistic that sports like men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball could be played in China soon because there is plenty of infrastructure to accommodate them. Scott said that the relationship would probably begin with off-season tours and lead to regular-season games.
Bob Bowlsby, Stanford’s athletic director, said: “It’s an emerging market educationally as well as athletically. It seems to me that international strategy is good for Stanford and the Pac-12 universities in general. All of them, especially along the West Coast, are heavily engaged in the Pacific Rim.”
To help build a presence in China, Scott hired Carrie Xu, who recently received a master’s degree from Southern California in sports business and marketing. Xu, who has worked for Nike in China on its basketball initiatives there, is the Pac-12’s senior manager/international, and is believed to be the first conference official hired to focus on overseas development.
The Pac-12’s push into China came from Scott’s initial meetings with all the Pac-12 presidents. He said “the light went off” when he kept hearing about the wide international scope of various universities.
Crow said Arizona State drew more than 1,200 students from China and wanted to increase that to more than 2,500. The Southern California president, Max Nikias, said his university had more international students than any other in the United States (more than 8,600 of U.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards,S.C.100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together.’s more than 37,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,000). U.S.C., he said, has more than 25,000 alumni in the Pacific Rim.
Washington Athletic Director Scott Woodward said: “This is going to be very important to us, not only for athletics but from a University of Washington viewpoint.ceramic magic cube for the medical, This part of the world is an important part of our strategic plan of how we look at things.”
Scott plans to spend four days there meeting with various officials to put together a “road map” for a way to expand the presence of Pac-12 universities in China. While Scott has his eyes on Central America, South America, India and other Asian nations in the long term, his immediate priority is establishing the Pac-12 in China.
Scott said in a telephone interview Saturday that he expected the Pac-12 to play games in China in the next three to five years, and that he hoped the league’s cable network would someday be available there.
There have been college football games played overseas, and dozens of colleges have sent teams in other sports on foreign tours, but the Pac-12’s initiative to become more involved in China is believed to be the first concentrated effort by a league to establish itself overseas. Pac-12 presidents and athletic directors say there is a strong desire for the results to transcend sports, hoping that an increased presence in China will lead to recruitment of future students and positive cultural experiences for their athletes who travel there.
“As the world shifts from a Eurocentric historical pattern to a more broad globalcentric pattern, the Pacific Basin and Pacific Rim are ever more important to who we are and where we’re going,” said Arizona State’s president, Michael Crow.
There are few specifics so far, but Scott said this fact-finding mission would eventually hatch an international plan.
Notre Dame and Stanford have discussed playing their 2013 football game in China instead of in California. Oregon, with its strong Nike ties through the company’s chairman, Phil Knight, also has a strong interest in China, a focal point for Nike.
The future of football in China is not as certain as that of other sports with more traditional ties to the country. Scott said he was optimistic that sports like men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball could be played in China soon because there is plenty of infrastructure to accommodate them. Scott said that the relationship would probably begin with off-season tours and lead to regular-season games.
Bob Bowlsby, Stanford’s athletic director, said: “It’s an emerging market educationally as well as athletically. It seems to me that international strategy is good for Stanford and the Pac-12 universities in general. All of them, especially along the West Coast, are heavily engaged in the Pacific Rim.”
To help build a presence in China, Scott hired Carrie Xu, who recently received a master’s degree from Southern California in sports business and marketing. Xu, who has worked for Nike in China on its basketball initiatives there, is the Pac-12’s senior manager/international, and is believed to be the first conference official hired to focus on overseas development.
The Pac-12’s push into China came from Scott’s initial meetings with all the Pac-12 presidents. He said “the light went off” when he kept hearing about the wide international scope of various universities.
Crow said Arizona State drew more than 1,200 students from China and wanted to increase that to more than 2,500. The Southern California president, Max Nikias, said his university had more international students than any other in the United States (more than 8,600 of U.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards,S.C.100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together.’s more than 37,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,000). U.S.C., he said, has more than 25,000 alumni in the Pacific Rim.
Washington Athletic Director Scott Woodward said: “This is going to be very important to us, not only for athletics but from a University of Washington viewpoint.ceramic magic cube for the medical, This part of the world is an important part of our strategic plan of how we look at things.”
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