Jon Wilner's Pac-12 Hotline mailbag: The logic behind expanding the conference, the latest on media-rights negotiations, the NCAA Tournament outlook for the league and more.
Is SMU to the Pac-12 closer to 75% complete, or 100%? — @smu_football
Within the numbers comes inventory. You can play 13-15 more home football games per season with 12 teams as opposed to 10, and those extra games could carry value to media partners.That’s the key. The presidents are intrigued enough to have authorized the exploratory process — hence Commissioner George Kliavkoff’s visit to SMU last week — but that’s far different from voting on membership.
Are we waiting on the new media partners to decide which expansion candidates provide the most value to them to present to the presidents for consideration? — @beckarabecka My sense is that any impact on the mechanics of the process was minimal, if nonexistent. Neither Shuken nor Willman was involved in the negotiations in a material fashion.
I have read from credible sources that CBS and Turner are out of Pac-12 negotiations. Fox will only take games on the cheap. Some Twitter rumors say Amazon only wants a game. What’s true, what isn’t? — @realwebtravelerHowever, the Hotline can add context on this topic: However, the conference needs exposure on ESPN, not only for the event audience but also for the narrative piece. If ESPN isn’t under contract with the Pac-12, its analysts will have little reason to talk about the Pac-12.Whether ESPN’s inventory haul is more or less than 25% of the Pac-12 total, which would match the current commitment, we cannot say.
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