Jon Wilner's Pac-12 Hotline mailbag: Will a mega league form as the third option to go with the Big Ten and SEC?
While former commissioner Larry Scott was either totally incompetent or a shrewd grifter, when are the Pac-12 presidents going to be held accountable for a lack of oversight that has put athletic departments into a financial swamp that continues to get deeper? — @RockDawg3The bumbling chief executive, Larry Scott, was effectively fired by the board in the winter of 2021. But the board itself has made a plethora of major mistakes and should, by all rights, be ousted.
He's the perfect example of a president doing well for his campus and poorly for his athletic department. Which is a textbook example of mismanagement, right up to the point where the board members are ousted by enraged shareholders.Which of the current Power Five programs are the most likely to get left behind in realignment if things end up as the Big Two and the best of the rest in the Big 12? — @vakaviti
The Pac-12 had very aggressive valuation expectations with ESPN/Fox last summer. Did Oregon and Washington push a hard line on valuation to slow down the deal timeline and avoid getting locked into a grant of rights while they chased a Big Ten invite? — @MountainTop_Ut Could they have attempted to stall for time? Perhaps. But an easier approach would have simply been to allow Kliavkoff to find the best deal, then hold off signing a grant-of-rights deal until the Big Ten provided a definitive answer.
Wilner: Endeavor, a media advisory company, is working on behalf of the Big 12 to lure Pac-12 universities, according to every source in our Rolodex. Exactly what Endeavor has told the likes of Colorado and Arizona, we cannot say. Wilner: We see little chance of Stanford and Cal getting separated. Either they remain in the Pac-12 for the foreseeable future or they move into the Big Ten in the next media contract cycle .
Wilner: The Aztecs strongly prefer the Pac-12, according to sources, because of the geography and institutional fit. The administration would love an academic affiliation with the Pac-12 and draws many of its students from California and Arizona.Our guess is SDSU waits on the Pac-12 until it has no choice. That deadline could be June 30, when the reported $19 million Mountain West exit fee essentially doubles.
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