What gives you so much optimism that the remaining schools can still field a powerful conference? We’ve moved up our negotiating window with ESPN and Fox, and we’re going to continue down that path.Ī lot of people believe losing USC and UCLA critically weakens the Pac-12. The important thing is that we stay aligned. Rick George: I feel really good about the strength that we have in our 10. Would that be enough to save the Pac-12? We put that question and others to George as he prepared for the Buffs’ season opener against (future Big 12 brethren?) TCU on Friday at Folsom Field.ĥ280 : Do you feel like the Pac-12 is secure with only 10 teams?
And that haul would only have to be split between 10 schools, not 12. The conference is currently in a window in which ESPN and Fox have exclusive bargaining rights, but once the auction opens to all networks, Jon Wilner, who covers the Pac-12 for the Mercury News in San Jose, California, believes the conference could rake in more than $300 million annually, up from $250 million.
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“None of us got the word until everybody else did,” says Rick George, athletic director at the University of Colorado Boulder, “which is really disappointing.” The latest dominoes to fall in college sports’ continuing saga of conference realignment, the California schools’ departures set off a wave of speculation in the media: Would the Pac-12 collapse? Would it merge with the ACC? Would it expand? Would some of its institutions, including CU, make a run for the Big 12?Īt almost the same time, the Pac-12 has opened negotiations for a new TV deal. When UCLA and USC announced they would be leaving the Pac-12 Conference for the Big 10 Conference, no one was more surprised than Pac-12 administrators.
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