We’re just in a holding pattern. It doesn’t change much if the corner schools announced they were leaving the PAC 6 months ago, 3 months ago, or in the next couple of weeks. Might as well stick around and see what the PAC deal ultimately is.
I would think by this point each school has communicated to GK what it will take for them to stay, in terms of dollars and the linear:streaming ratio. And he has yet to secure that deal. I would guess at some point between now and the FB season he takes them a deal and hopes there’s some wiggle room or they were bluffing. I don’t see the point in trying to bluff him though.
I don't have a crystal ball and I don't follow it that closely to claim I know what any school is thinking. What I do know, is that if the deal was good enough to keep the PAC together, we'd have heard it by now and the schools would have signed it. My gut says the deal isn't good. It's not terrible, but Kliavkoff is scared and he's holding on to it to the very last minute, to try and pin schools into a corner.
This is certainly the easiest route to take...safe, less expensive travel due to staying regional, and known teams. The biggest threat to the conference future is Washington and Oregon, not the others...the others will stay if the pay is close to what it is now. If Washington and Oregon are good, the conference will stay together. That's the big if...
Maybe it has to do with unequal revenue sharing. Colorado and Arizona are leaving the door open to exiting the conference for leverage against an unfavorable deal. Hopefully we’ll know in the next couple weeks.
But if Yormarck has extended an open invitation to the 4 corner schools with no deadline for response, then the 4 corner schools cannot be trapped into a corner by Kliavkoff can they?
And apparently the b1g’s tv partners are telling them WA/OR are less than additive. Which is a little surprising. Also, would anybody be shocked if Warren lied to USCLA about adding PAC travel partners down the road? Kevin Warren would never lie would he? I mean what could they do about it anyway?
I honestly think that nobody except the PAC commish has any clue at all
I think it's all that Kliavkoff has at this point. Is it a good plan? No, but I do believe he is in desperation mode.
That’s a good point. Especially with the news of the AZ Prez pushing back against the supposed verbal agreement on the GOR.
I think the tv execs are the only ones who know anything right now. They are the ones writing the checks and really the only ones who know if they are willing to pay what it's going to take to keep the PAC together. Everyone has a pretty good idea that it needs to be in the ballpark of the Big 12. Are any of the media conglomerates willing to pay that? Only they know.
Yormark has a lot of media connections. I'm sure he knows where ESPN/FOX stand with the PAC. Not sure how much he would know about the tech companies involved, but maybe knows them too, the people running the television side of things were hired from the OG media companies.
Jason Scheer and Josh Neighbors have both trended toward the PAC sticking together narrative in the last week or so I believe. CW somewhat going that direction also.
Not disagreeing with you but just seems like that would be a difficult secret to keep considering there are a number of people involved and they all have their own agendas.
