Heading a Hoops Conference In Era of Big Football
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But it really changes the equation when you don't have a big football program like that. |
| 0:07.3 | Now, that being said, obviously men's basketball is our biggest revenue producer right now. |
| 0:13.7 | And how do you do that responsibly and also resource value women's basketball and your women's sports. |
| 0:22.1 | So that's what our conversation sounds like. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Dave Ziron. |
| 0:35.6 | This week we are speaking to a trailblazer, the first Latina head of a major college sports conference, Gloria Navarez. |
| 0:45.5 | She is the new Glomissioner. |
| 0:47.9 | That's co-missioner plus Gloria, glow missioner of the West Coast Conference. |
| 0:53.0 | If you don't know what the West Coast Conference is, |
| 0:55.0 | that is the conference that comprises Brigham Young, Gonzaga, |
| 0:59.4 | Loyola Marymount, Pacific, Portland, Pepperdine, St. Mary's, |
| 1:03.7 | University of San Diego, University of San Francisco, and Santa Clara. |
| 1:08.0 | And we're going to talk to Gloria Navarez about how she handles issues ranging from |
| 1:13.1 | Title IX to sexual harassment to the encroachment of big football on a conference largely |
| 1:19.3 | built around basketball and Olympic sports success. Also, I've got some choice words about |
| 1:27.3 | the Kansas City Chiefs and their release of |
| 1:30.1 | Star Running Back Kareem Hunt. I also have Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards and some commentary |
| 1:36.7 | about Dwight Howard. But first, let's go to Gloria Navarans. |
| 1:47.5 | So, to Gloria Navarres. So Gloria Navarres, how are you doing? |
| 1:50.3 | Good. I think in your intro just hit on, like, my first major initiative as the new commissioner |
| 1:56.1 | in that a lot of people don't know who are the schools in the WCC. |
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