For all the smoke on social media about the Big 12 raiding the Pac-12, the chief threat to the conference is its longtime ally.
As if realignment isn’t nuanced enough, the current wave features a Shakespearian element.
The double-whammy heaped another layer of uncertainty onto the Pac-12’s future, making commissioner George Kliavkoff’s meatball surgery efforts that much more complicated.The greatest threat to the Pac-12’s survival is the Big Ten, not the Big 12. The former is a dream destination; the latter is a fallback option.
There is no indication additional schools will be invited at this late stage, thereby leaving Oregon, Washington and Stanford with limited short-term options and giving the Pac-12 a chance for survival. The smaller the stake NBC carves out of the Big Ten’s inventory, the more cash on hand for Notre Dame.
Without the Irish, no combination of Pac-12 schools creates an equivalent financial windfall for the existing Big Ten members, who are likely to collect more than $75 million annually in total media rights distributions.The Big Ten stands on 16, prompting the SEC to do the same …
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