![]() ![]() That prestigious legacy is no guarantee of its future. Over a century, it went from the Pac-8 to the Pac-10 to the Pac-12, accumulating more than 500 NCAA championships. The Pac-12 dates back 108 years with the formation of the Pacific Coast Conference. Instead of the Pac-12 absorbing Mountain West schools, the Mountain West could go on the offensive. The worst-case scenario? The Pac-12 losses all the four corner schools to the Big 12, the Big Ten is motivated to reverse course and add some combination of Oregon, Washington, Stanford and California. The Aztecs and SMU have already been on the Pac-12’s radar to replace USC and UCLA. Swapping out Colorado for, say, San Diego State, which awkwardly tried to position itself to exit the Mountain West in 2024 earlier this month, would mitigate the damage. ![]() The best-case scenario for the Pac-12 is that it finally lands a TV contract comparable to the Big 12’s (about $2 billion over six years) and the remaining members stay put. Whether the Pac-12 implodes now or whether the Pac-12 implodes in 2030 or whether the Pac-12 stays together, CU is set,” Thompson said.Īdding Arizona, Arizona State and Utah from the Pac-12 to join Colorado would make Yormark’s vision a reality, but those schools are still publicly committed to their current conference. ![]() The Big 12 will never catch up at the bank to the SEC and Big Ten, but it has more stability and harmony than the beleaguered Pac-12 and anxious Atlantic Coast Conference. The Big 12 replaced the star quality brands of Texas and Oklahoma with quantity and reach (BYU, Houston, UCF and Cincinnati all joined this year). Facebook Instagram Pac-12 Conference Twitter Pac-12 Networks Twitter YouTube. While Kliavkoff was trying to figure out a way to close the revenue gap on the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten, Yormark realized survival was at stake for the other Power Five conferences. Yogi Roth reviews Pac-12 football landscape, previews must-watch Week 5 ahead. The Big 12 jumped the Pac-12 in line last year and grabbed a deal with ESPN and Fox that probably could have been the Pac-12’s. He has envisioned a 16-team league that covers all time zones. The continuing threat to the Pac-12 is primarily the Big 12, despite Kliavkoff’s dismissals (“The truth is we have bigger fish to fry,” he said last week in Las Vegas at football media day.)īrett Yormark has outmaneuvered Kilavkoff since being named Big 12 commissioner a day before USC and UCLA announced they planned to switch conferences. We have a lot of work to do there,” new Commissioner Tony Petitti said at Big Ten football media days earlier this week. “All the direction I’m getting from leadership. But Warren is gone now and his replacement said the Big Ten isn’t eager to expand more. Under previous Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, the Big Ten still had eyes out west, with Oregon and Washington having the most appeal of the remaining Pac-12 schools. I don’t see the SEC, the Big Ten, the ACC doing anything at this point.” “A lot of that comes down to how fast the Big 12 wants to expand. “I don’t believe it does” said former Fox Sports executive Bob Thompson. The Buffaloes’ football team has had only one winning record over a full season since joining the Pac-12, and went 1-11 last year - leading to the hiring of former NFL star Deion Sanders.The questions now: Can the Pac-12 stop bleeding membership? And if not, does it trigger conferences beyond the Big 12 to target its schools? Will CU’s move trigger another wide-ranging round of realignment? Text messages to Kliavkoff and Colorado athletic director Rick George were not immediately returned.Ĭolorado was an original member of the Big 12 in 1996, and joined the Pac-12 in 2011. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the conference was not speaking publicly about its internal operations. The Pac-12 held a regularly scheduled board meeting Wednesday with its school presidents and a person familiar with the meeting said DiStefano did not notify his colleagues that Colorado was on the verge of making a decision on conference. “What we’ve seen is the longer we wait for the media deal, the better our options get,” Kliavkoff said.Ĭolorado Chancellor Phil DiStefano told the Denver Post last week he was “eagerly awaiting” more details on the television negotiations. ![]()
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