From creating the Pac-12 Networks to refusing an ESPN lifeboat, the 108-year-old Conference of Champions erred repeatedly
The morning after, devastation.The 108-year-old conference, which produced sports luminaries ranging from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and John Elway to Annika Sörenstam, Phil Mickelson, Jackie Joyner Kersey, Reggie Bush, Karch Kiraly, Sabrina Ionescu and Barry Bonds – not to mention a second baseman named Jack Roosevelt Robinson – will cease to exist next summer, at least in any recognizable form.
Eight of the existing schools will join other conferences following a mass exodus on a surreal Friday that changed the college sports landscape forever.Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado are departing for the Big 12.The Pac-4 cannot exist. The conference would need at least two more schools to reach the membership requirements set by the NCAA. Plans will evolve over the coming days and weeks.
Commissioner George Kliavkoff bears immense responsibility for the collapse, but not all of it. Not close to all of it. Here’s a 12-step path to destruction that began early last decade and continued through the extinction event this week.In the spring of 2011, then-commissioner Larry Scott signed a groundbreaking, $3 billion contract with Fox and ESPN to televise the Pac-12’s top football and men’s basketball games . There was only one problem: The deal spanned 12 years and had no escape clause late in the term, according to a source. The Pac-12 was locked in until 2024, which proved to be two years too late.
Instead, destruction unfolded over many years and took many forms. It’s as intricate as the end was swift.
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