Inside the Pac-12 collapse: Four surprising moments that crushed the conference

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the calendar turned to December 2022, the Pac-12 Conference was in a precarious position.

Six months after USC and UCLA announced they were joining the Big Ten and the Pac-12 began its media rights negotiations early in response, the 10 remaining schools did not have a new TV deal in place. Worse than that, the Big 12 jumped the Pac-12 in line with ESPN and Fox, agreeing in October 2022 to extend its current deal through 2030-31.

But Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff was working on another way to save the 108-year-old conference. Multiple sources not authorized to speak publicly about negotiations shared the following outline of the plan and Pac-12 leaders’ response with The Times.

Publicly, the University of California Board of Regents’ threats to force UCLA to stay in the Pac-12 and avoid hurting UC Berkeley were viewed as posturing, bluffs to get attention and possibly some money from the departing Bruins.


https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-08-16/pac-12-collapse-decisions-realignment-ucla-oregon

[usonian]

1. If the travel costs are 10 to 12 million dollars for ONE team, imagine the environmental impact.

As always making money seems to come at someone else's expense.

If it's not on the balance sheet, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

We ALL pay for this.



Thousands of fans, instead of a leisurely drive down I-5 will now be flying across (on average) half the frickin country to support their teams.

Carbon credits?

CABRON CREDITS.

BTW, Chip Kelly has addressed this (from a link on that page above)

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-08-12/chip-kelly-plan-pac-12-college-football

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-08-04/chip-kelly-college-football-realignment

The Kelly Plan. It has a nice ring to it, but it will never happen.

Chip Kelly’s idea about how to steer the college sports enterprise away from fully losing its soul — having top football schools be classified as independent and playing by their own rules, allowing the rest of the sports to be grouped together regionally as they used to be — is simply too logical for college sports leaders to wrap their heads around.