The conference would suffer a massive PR hit if the existential crisis remains unresolved for the mid-summer football media extravaganza.
If a media rights deal isn’t completed by football media day, will commissioner George Kliavkoff still speak there? Or will it be like the men’s basketball tournament, when he avoided speaking to reporters? — draywilson29
But there’s one crucial difference between the two events: The commissioner’s news conference is traditionally a secondary piece of the basketball tournament, typically occurring on the second or third day; with the Pac-12 football media festivities in July, the commissioner offers the opening remarks.
After all, Kliavkoff’s public presence at football media day shouldn’t have a material impact on the course of the negotiations. The network partners don’t care. If PR hits played a relevant role, the conference would have dissolved months ago.We hear of schools not being added in realignment because they are dilutive. In the Football Bowl Subdivision, how many schools really aren’t dilutive if they want to change conferences? I’m thinking maybe 10, if that.
Put it this way: As long as Oregon and Washington are committed to membership in a conference based on the West Coast — we don’t envision them joining the Big 12, ever — the Pac-12 will survive in some fashion. It might be unrecognizable, but it will exist. Granted, this is an extreme scenario — the one-percent scenario. But because other readers might be wondering the same thing, we thought it best to address the question.” in February, did they believe at that time they were close to a deal? Was there any sense who that was with and why it may have changed? — @kiwicanuck76
Nobody signs a grant-of-rights, then leaves a year or two later. Sure, you can announce intentions to switch conferences well in advance . But it doesn’t make sense financially to actually leave early in the contract cycle. The financial consequences are far too great.
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