10 months 2 weeks ago #31189
by HawkErrant
ESPN: Pac-12 presidents 'solely focused' on TV deal expected 'soon'
Interesting portions...
The uncertainty hovering over the Pac-12 has been amplified by
the Big 12's maneuvering to sign a six-year, $2.3 billion dollar television deal with ESPN and Fox that runs through 2031.
The Big 12 wasn't in line for a deal, but the league opened up early negotiations and got a deal done sooner than the Pac-12, despite the Pac-12's existing deal ending a year earlier.
That has left speculation about the future of the Pac-12, as both the desirable linear television windows and available cash for traditional media outlets are perceived to have diminished significantly for the conference.
Pac-12-2 leadership is awaiting hard #s from Commissioner George Kliavkoff.
Meanwhile talk has been that if not happy with those hard #s CU may move to return to the Big 12... setting the stage for Arizona to follow them as a logical geographical partner.
More things that make you go "Hmmm..."
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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