{"id":57177,"date":"2017-01-14T22:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57177"},"modified":"2017-06-10T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:03:19","slug":"the-peterson-principle-1142017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=57177","title":{"rendered":"The Peterson Principle: 1\/14\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tim<\/a>

Tim Peterson<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

For 22 years we didn’t have a football team. Now we get a team every year.\u00a0Maybe next January the\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars will announce they will be moving to the City of Industry.<\/p>\n

The Rams belong in Los Angeles. The Chargers belong in San Diego.\u00a0Heck, they had been there\u00a0for 56 years. Charger owner\u00a0Dean Spanos could have made it work in San Diego,\u00a0but he would have had to lay out some of his own dough for a new stadium.\u00a0Or would he?\u00a0More on that later.<\/p>\n

In November\u00a0San Diego voters rejected a plan to\u00a0raise hotel taxes to help fund\u00a0a new $1.8 billion stadium. For Spanos, that was the last straw.\u00a0He and his financial advisors calculated that the\u00a0market in San Diego\u00a0wasn’t big enough or profitable enough\u00a0to invest his own money to make it work.\u00a0But a quick look at the numbers makes you wonder.\u00a0First of all the market in San Diego was already established.\u00a0The Chargers\u00a0have loyal fans dating back decades.\u00a0If they win, which they haven’t been doing much of lately, the fans will come. And in most cases even if they don’t.<\/p>\n

In San Diego\u00a0the Chargers were competing\u00a0with well…nobody. In LA, they’re competing\u00a0with not only the Rams,\u00a0but also USC and UCLA Football, the Lakers,\u00a0the Clippers and the Dodgers.\u00a0They won’t even be the most admired team in the facility that they are playing\u00a0in for the first two years. That\u00a0would be the LA Galaxy, the soccer team that\u00a0the StubHub Center was built for and a team that has made the playoffs for eight consecutive years\u00a0and recently won back to back\u00a0MLS championships.<\/p>\n

Also why did the Chargers\u00a0chose the StubHub Center? Even with expansion\u00a0capacity will only be 30,000. Doesn’t that seem minor league for the NFL? Were they afraid\u00a0they would draw paltry crowds\u00a0at the Coliseum or the Rose Bowl?\u00a0It will be worse at a smaller venue\u00a0when 25,000 of the 30,000 will be dressed in silver and black.\u00a0Nobody in LA has cared\u00a0about the Chargers so why would they start now?<\/p>\n

Ok, now back to those numbers. The Chargers\u00a0have to lay out a $650 million NFL relocation fee for moving\u00a0to Los Angeles in addition to sharing construction costs with the Rams for the $2.6 billion stadium in Inglewood.\u00a0All of that for being a tenant. This will be the Rams stadium.\u00a0Stan Kroenke holds all of the cards.<\/p>\n

So why wouldn’t Spanos\u00a0use that $650\u00a0million plus\u00a0the construction costs for Inglewood to either\u00a0build brand new digs on the\u00a0Qualcomm Stadium site in Mission Valley or\u00a0throw all of that money\u00a0into a refurbishing of Qualcomm? He really couldn’t make it work with all of those millions?\u00a0Spanos is\u00a0top dog\u00a0in\u00a0San Diego. He’s not even second fiddle in Los Angeles.\u00a0At best he’s fifth or sixth.<\/p>\n

Did Spanos and his representatives\u00a0ever really submit a decent proposal to the San Diego voters?\u00a0Did they even know what they were voting on?\u00a0By\u00a0all accounts all they saw was a greedy owner who was insistent\u00a0on them giving him their money to build some extravagant facility in downtown San Diego. Why\u00a0didn’t he make\u00a0a\u00a0smarter presentation to\u00a0the voters concerning the more familiar site in Mission Valley? It just might have passed.<\/p>\n

Whether you like him or not, (and I know a lot or people that don’t)\u00a0Bill Plaschke of the LA Times absolutely nailed it in\u00a0his\u00a0two columns this past week concerning the Chargers move to LA. Spanos\u00a0screwed\u00a0San Diego and now he may get screwed by LA. What comes around, goes around.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

I got out to a couple of basketball games this week and picked up some information.\u00a0At the Azusa Pacific game\u00a0Cougar quarterback Andrew Elffers\u00a0told me that the team was\u00a0ready to get back at it at 6:00 a.m. last Friday morning.\u00a0“We got almost all of our key offensive players back.\u00a0We should be even better. We’re excited and ready to go,” Elffers said.<\/p>\n

At the Los Altos game I ran into\u00a0recently retired HC Dale Ziola who said he is enjoying his time with his family. “Out of the last\u00a019 days I’ve been home for dinner\u00a017 times. That’s never happened in the last six years that I’ve been coaching,” he said.<\/p>\n

Will he get the itch to coach\u00a0again? “Oh I’ll end up somewhere as an assistant this year. In fact I might be\u00a0coaching two football teams this fall.\u00a0I’ll be a high school assistant somewhere and I’ll also coach my son’s team who plays in the junior leagues.\u00a0But it won’t take me away from my family – not like it does as a head coach.”<\/p>\n

Los Altos running back Tyler Nevens, who rushed for over\u00a02500 yards and 40 touchdowns, has received offers from Portland State and\u00a0Montana and Massachusetts recently called as well. Right now, Portland State\u00a0has the inside track.<\/p>\n

Oh, basketball information? Well Los Altos’ Jarod Lucas can play a little bit. The Conquerors should win the Hacienda League.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Anybody else notice that USC\u00a0finished as the number three team in the nation?<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Nice hire by UCLA I guess, but are the Bruins really banking on just one OC completely turning the program around? Good luck Jedd Fisch.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

I feel a little better about the Rams hiring of Sean McVay knowing that he was recommended by Marshall Faulk and Jon Gruden. I was all in on “Chucky” but from what I’m hearing McVay is the next best thing. Apparently there’s no truth to the rumor that McVay was late to the job interview because he was at the DMV taking his driver’s test. Hey if he can turn Jared Goff into Kirk Cousins it’s all good. Besides if he doesn’t work out the timing will be perfect for the Rams. In two years they can fire him and bring in a new coach to open the new stadium in Inglewood. And again I’ll be screaming “Chucky!”<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Just watched the Falcons blow out the Seahawks and the Pats take care of the Texans. It’s still hard to believe that an NFL General Manager, someone who is an “expert” in evaluating talent, would pay Brock Osweiler $72 million. This sounds funny but Tom Savage was the better option.<\/p>\n

Sunday I like Pittsburgh over Kansas City and in the other game something tells me the Dallas Cowboys are headed for a fall. I’ll take Aaron Rodgers over Dak Prescott every day and twice on Sunday. The Packers in an upset.<\/p>\n

That’s my principle.<\/p>\n

Tim can be reached at tim@midvalleysports.com or on Twitter @tspeterson40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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