Jon Wilner's Pac-12 Hotline mailbag: Hindsight is 20/20, but in retrospect, George Kliavkoff might have been wise to take the best media deal on the table in the fall.
Since you’re reducing the odds for Pac-12 survival — and will continue to do so as long as there is no new media deal — does this indicate that you think Commissioner George Kliavkoff made a mistake in waiting so long? If so, what should he have done differently? — @chetvancouver
But my understanding is that Fox wasn’t interested in a major partnership, and I’m not sure how interested the Pac-12 was in a major deal with Fox after what transpired on June 30. What if he had gone to the presidents on Oct. 15, for example, and said: “ESPN will pay $31.7 million per school if we accept the deal right now”?
Yes, the Big 12 presidents were willing to accept that valuation, but their conference had been rocked by instability for more than a decade, it needed security for the existing schools, and it needed to lock in the newcomers. However, Kliavkoff is entirely responsible for the media-rights negotiations that have played out over the past eight months.
The networks won’t exist as a media company in the next contract cycle, which begins in the summer of 2024, but the technology and staff are moving to a facility in the East Bay.
A performance-based model might appease the top schools , and it could incentivize others to plow resources into their teams. That said, we know of just two instances in which campus officials have applied a timeline to the process:The current fiscal quarter is precisely when the Pac-12 would have negotiated a new media deal if it hadn’t opted to expedite the process in the immediate aftermath of USC and UCLA announcing their departures.
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