What’s subsequent for the Pac-12 Convention and its groups?
Take a look at the newest updates, hypothesis, rumors, chatter and studies encompass the way forward for the convention.
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Pac-12 Insider John Canzano wrote: “I feel the Pac-12 is exploring an incentivized payout construction for the packages that qualify for the NCAA Match and Faculty Soccer Playoff. Gained’t be shocked if the convention stops the observe of splitting these postseason windfalls evenly amongst members and offers the majority of the payout to the packages that earn it.”
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Sports activities Illustrated’s Kevin Borba included San Diego State SMU, UNLV, Fresno State, Boise State and Houston on his checklist.
He wrote: “Thus making it important that the Pac-12 provides not less than two extra groups, however the optimum quantity could be six. Getting again to 12 is a should, however the convention must be on the offensive facet of issues for as soon as and get forward of the Huge 12 and ACC in relation to forming bigger mega-conferences. The Huge Ten and the SEC are already destined and in place to kind their mega-conference, everybody else is taking part in catch-up. Now granted, there are no groups on the market that can carry the worth and status that the convention misplaced with USC and UCLA, however extra groups equates to extra markets, which equals more cash.”
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Matt Zemek of Trojans Wire wrote: “Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen dominated the convention for over 1 / 4 of a century. Hansen was recognized for valuing the Olympic sports activities however not understanding — or placing sufficient effort into — constructing the Pac’s soccer model. Larry Scott was purported to be completely different, however it’s hanging how much like Hansen he grew to become.”
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Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury Information wrote: “We view survival as a 4.5-point favourite over extinction. That’s something however an amazing favourite. If the convention holds collectively, there’s an affordable likelihood it expands to 12 groups. Why? Due to stock calls for. As famous above, one of many Pac-12’s chief promoting factors is the flexibility to supply stock for the late TV broadcast home windows on each Friday and Saturday. To fulfill the stock calls for, it very properly may need the extra video games that the eleventh and twelfth groups would supply. And if growth is the choice, San Diego State stands as the apparent name. Houston could be a first-rate addition, relying on availability. We aren’t aware about the paperwork signed by the college — and whether or not it might be topic to Huge 12 exit charges.”
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The Deseret Information’ Dick Harmon writes: “Utah’s loyalty to the Pac-12 might find yourself being companions to San Diego State, Colorado State and Boise State, a group the Utes have averted taking part in since shedding to it within the 2010 Las Vegas Bowl. There are various in Uteville who could also be holding out to be invited to the Huge Ten when that day comes, however all specialists you may assessment throughout this summer season of growth speak since June 30 shouldn’t have a trending Utah within the dialog. Simply saying, Utah would make an incredible member of the Huge 12 and elevate that league within the absence of Oklahoma and Texas.”
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The Athletic revealed a narrative in regards to the Pac-12 Networks.
It included: “When the community hit tv airwaves 10 years in the past as we speak, it was supposed to place the Pac-12 forward of its friends within the media panorama and usher in a brand new period of income and publicity for the league. The following decade has as a substitute been outlined by a string of public embarrassments: questionable technique and spending by former commissioner Larry Scott, whiffed teaching hires by a number of soccer packages, apathetic fan bases and USC and UCLA’s gorgeous decampment for the Huge Ten. However there’s been no better poster for the convention’s points than the community that began as a daring imaginative and prescient and endures as a cautionary story. Whereas the remaining Pac-12 members ponder their subsequent broadcast rights deal, the community presses on with extra questions than ever. Ten years later, DirecTV nonetheless doesn’t carry the networks — although it seems the league’s personal presidents as soon as turned down that chance.”
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Trojans Wire’s Matt Zemek wrote: “Just by transferring stock off Pac-12 Networks and getting a way more aggressive worth available on the market by way of ESPN or a streaming service equivalent to Apple, the Pac-12 is poised to make tens of millions extra {dollars} per soccer recreation for the lifetime of the brand new media rights deal it can finally negotiate. Let’s be clear: The Pac-12 isn’t including worth. USC being out of the Pac-12 clearly hurts the Pac-12’s capacity to develop worth. Nevertheless, it is a discount in misplaced worth and misplaced income. The Pac-12 can claw again tens of millions of {dollars} it was shedding because of Pac-12 Community. It does imply more cash within the coffers, however in a context of lowered losses, not outright features.”
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Matt Zemek of Trojans Wire wrote: “Quite a lot of Pac-12 directors have Midwestern ties to start with, however past that, the Huge Ten has lots of elite analysis establishments. Networking, mentoring, talent-sharing — these and different non-football elements have been immensely engaging to Carol Folt, the president of USC. Once we notice that she instantly shot down speak of Pac-12 growth final summer season, it turns into simpler to see that she had her eyes on the Huge Ten for fairly a while. This thought didn’t simply come out of nowhere. It was within the background, and when Texas and Oklahoma moved to the SEC, that clearly opened the door for the Trojans to consider an enormous change.”
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SB Nation’s Daniel Plocher wrote: “On model with the Huge 12, USC and UCLA will depart for the Huge Ten as quickly because the TV deal ends in 2024. A 12-year, $3 billion contract with FOX and ESPN is about to run out, and many individuals are questioning the place they are going to be headed with out two of their historic packages.”
Extra:Are Pac-12 faculties ASU, Arizona a package deal deal in faculty convention realignment?
Guess Arizona just lately launched hypothetical odds for the place it sees the 2 Pac-12 Arizona faculties ending up within the years forward they usually have some variations.
It has each favored to stay within the Pac-12, however places completely different odds for every group’s probabilities to take action.
Arizona is at -400 to remain within the convention, whereas Arizona State is at -550.
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Arizona, Arizona State ‘kingpins’ for what occurs with Pac-12, Huge 12
Andrew Marchand of the New York Submit stated: “Will there be extra groups and universities that change conferences? I take a look at Arizona and Arizona State. I feel they’re sort of the kingpins proper now. Do they go to the Huge 12 or do they keep within the Pac-12? I feel that can shift issues.”
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Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury Information wrote: “By inserting 400-something soccer video games on the Pac-12 Networks over 12 years, as a substitute of on ESPN and Fox, the convention has misplaced greater than half a billion {dollars} over the contract cycle. In different phrases: Because the Pac-12 negotiates its new media contracts, it can embrace an enormous package deal of undervalued soccer stock. The $250 million in common annual worth from the ESPN and Fox contract isn’t a wholly correct baseline from which to venture the Pac-12’s subsequent media rights contract due to all of the video games stashed on the Pac-12 Networks that generated little or no in actual {dollars} for the faculties.
The San Jose Mercury Information’ Jon Wilner wrote: “The evening video games are maybe essentially the most precious piece of the Pac-12’s media rights package deal. In concept, it might provide weekly kickoffs at 7:30 p.m. Pacific on Friday and Saturday evening for 13 weeks. That’s 26 video games, with little or no competitors, in primetime home windows for the West Coast and Mountain Time Zone audiences. We don’t know particulars, however it’s protected to imagine the evening broadcast slots are a central piece of the bidding course of.”
Trojan Wire’s Matt Zemek wrote: “San Diego State has develop into such a sizzling and central subject within the midst of the Pac-12-Huge 12 firefight as a result of it represents an accessible manner for each the Pac-12 and Huge 12 to plant a flag in Los Angeles with USC and UCLA heading to the Huge Ten. San Diego State has develop into the hill a army unit should seize in an effort to acquire greater floor and a extra favorable battlefield place. This has been one of many extra sudden however real plot twists within the bigger theater of faculty sports activities realignment. It invitations the query: What are the hills different conferences want to absorb different areas of the nation to fortify themselves in a long-term context?”
Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury Information wrote: “Had been the calculation solely about annual income, survival could be a considerable favourite. We imagine Arizona, ASU, Colorado and Utah would favor to stay within the Pac-12, and there’s no indication that both league has a big benefit in future income. However the long-haul stability difficulty actually should be thought-about. The Hotline doesn’t imagine the Huge Ten will broaden once more this decade. In our estimation, Notre Dame will signal a brand new cope with NBC and stay Impartial, limiting the Huge Ten’s choices. However admittedly, that’s a precarious assumption for the 4 Corners faculties. At this level, the problem for commissioner George Kliavkoff is crafting a contract that gives flexibility for Washington, Oregon and Stanford and safety for the others.”
Matt Wadleigh of Trojans Wire wrote: If Arizona leaves, it can nearly actually be for the Huge 12. Such a transfer would create a good higher basketball convention for the Huge 12, which already has nationwide champion Kansas, 2021 champion Baylor and 2019 runner-up Texas Tech. 2021 Closing 4 group Houston joins the convention subsequent yr, and TCU is a preseason top-15 group. Including Arizona makes the Huge 12 higher in hoops, which is a scary thought.
Matt Wadleigh of Trojans Wire wrote: “If the Solar Devils depart, it’s onerous to see Arizona not becoming a member of ASU. A lot as USC and UCLA have been related, so are the Arizona faculties. If one leaves, we are able to safely predict the opposite one will.”
Sports activities Illustrated just lately ranked the Pac-12 because the fifth-best convention among the many Energy 5. It had the SEC first, Huge Ten second, ACC third and Huge 12 fourth.
It wrote of the Pac-12: “Early indications are the convention can preserve its present 10 members from splintering, though that solidarity may be solely as robust because the Huge Ten’s urge for food for additional growth. The Pac-12 nonetheless has a number of main media markets and the late-night programming area of interest, that are good. But it surely doesn’t have a lot in the best way of engaging growth targets, and any additional raiding of its membership might show deadly.”
Ben Koo of Terrible Asserting wrote: “Oh man. I hate opening up this could of worms. The Huge Ten and the SEC can just about gobble up anybody they need at any time when they need minus Notre Dame (for now?). This implies in case your identify is Stanford, Washington, Oregon, Miami, Clemson, and Florida State, it’s very potential it may be extra of a query of when than if. Different faculties like North Carolina, Virginia, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Cal, Arizona State, and Colorado are additionally different potential dominoes that would fall ought to this SEC vs. Huge Ten landgrab proceed to snowball. So, has any of this modified with yesterday’s information? I’d say sure.”
Terrible Asserting’s Ben Koo wrote: “Each conferences are just about caught simply hoping the poaching from the large two stops. Sooner or later when the bleeding is definitely over, they too should work out their tv futures. A lot of the reporting and hypothesis has cooled, given the Huge Ten’s growth and now tv rights extensions taking heart stage. The Pac-12 simply now emerged from their unique negotiating window with ESPN with no new deal. Each the Pac-12 and the Huge 12 are for now principally targeted on attempting from an optics standpoint to appear just like the extra secure convention able to absorbing the stays of the opposite convention. I’d give a small benefit to the Pac-12 for now, given they’ve a conference-owned community that may be absorbed and in addition the flexibility to have late-night video games. Nevertheless, that benefit would crumble ought to they undergo some other defections (so actually a really tenuous benefit given how precarious issues are).”
Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury Information wrote: “However the consequence falls wanting an optimum scenario for the Pac-12 for one purpose: The remaining competitors, or lack thereof. … Ideally, the Huge Ten negotiations would have left behind a second get together. With Fox, CBS and NBC sharing stock that features the New York, Chicago and Los Angeles media markets, the networks could have little, if any motivation to bid in opposition to ESPN for the Pac-12 rights.”
Matt Zemek of Trojans Wire wrote: “The Pac-12, Huge 12, and ACC have to seek out methods of being related inside that construction when it turns into an everyday a part of the faculty soccer media panorama. What ought to the Pac-12 provide? Untraditional time slots.”
The San Jose Mercury Information’ Jon Wilner wrote: “The Huge 12 is predicted to start media rights negotiations in the summertime of 2024, for a contract cycle beginning within the fall of 2025. We point out the Huge 12 piece due to the strategic calculation going through ESPN. Even with out critical competitors from different linear networks, ESPN may very well be incentivized to supply a contract that helps preserve the Pac-12 intact. If the community comes with a lowball provide and the convention fractures, essentially the most precious remaining soccer packages seemingly would soar to the Huge 12. That leaves open the potential for Fox to go all-in with the Huge 12 when negotiations start in two years and successfully lock ESPN out of faculty soccer within the western half of the nation.”
The Related Press and Salt Lake Tribune wrote: “The Huge Ten’s subsequent spherical of media rights contracts is not going to embrace a cope with ESPN. Two individuals acquainted with the negotiations advised The Related Press on Tuesday that the Huge Ten was on the lookout for a seven-year deal price $380 million per yr from ESPN, and the community declined. The settlement wouldn’t have given ESPN the flexibility to have first selection of Huge Ten video games in a given week at any level. The fallout may very well be excellent news for the Pac-12, which stays in negotiations with the community big, in addition to its different media companions on new media rights agreements. With out the Huge Ten contract, ESPN theoretically has cash to spend elsewhere and programming slots to fill. For its half, the Pac-12 can present night kickoff slots, as late as 10:30 p.m. ET — stock with little, if any competitors at that hour.”
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