Yesterday was a historic day for Arizona with its move from the Pac-12 to the Big 12 creating a 16-team conference that is now rich with basketball history and tradition, However, I've gotten to speak to people around the conference (Pac-12) and Friday was even crazier than what people realize.
When we were all laying out head to our pillow Thursday night, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavoff was under the impression that he had convinced the nine remaining school to sign an improved Grant of Rights deal in the morning. The deal was still with Appletv and was raised to around $25-million per school and would've been only a 4 to 5-year deal that would've set them up to add major networks down the road.
However, those meetings went horribly wrong and it is believe that one school was leaking the details of the meeting (Oregon) so that the Big Ten would catch wind and make one last push for the Ducks and Washington. UO had no intent of signing the new GOR and was simply using the Pac-12 for leverage to see if they could get more from the Big Ten.
It worked and Oregon and Washington saw its share raise to around $30-million with it increasing by one million dollars each year throughout the duration of the Big Ten's TV deal. Then, after that the Ducks and Huskies will receive full share like USC and UCLA on the next TV contract.
After the writing was on the wall both Arizona, ASU and Utah informed the Pac-12 of their decision to join the Big 12 given the fact that both Washington and Oregon were out.
The sad part is that San Diego State University was set to join the conference (Pac-12) following the announcement of the new TV deal and had filled out the paper work and had a press release ready to email out. Now, the Aztecs are looking for a new home still and the Big 12 is on their radar.
It will be getting ugly here in the days to come for the Pac-12 as the conference has started to file paperwork to prepare to sue ESPN and FOX for collusion they believe took place. The conference thinks the two major networks purposely refused to give them a deal and were in works with the Big Ten and Big 12 to start poaching the Pac-12 teams off one-by-one.
A lot more details to this and I can answer any questions you have.
When we were all laying out head to our pillow Thursday night, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavoff was under the impression that he had convinced the nine remaining school to sign an improved Grant of Rights deal in the morning. The deal was still with Appletv and was raised to around $25-million per school and would've been only a 4 to 5-year deal that would've set them up to add major networks down the road.
However, those meetings went horribly wrong and it is believe that one school was leaking the details of the meeting (Oregon) so that the Big Ten would catch wind and make one last push for the Ducks and Washington. UO had no intent of signing the new GOR and was simply using the Pac-12 for leverage to see if they could get more from the Big Ten.
It worked and Oregon and Washington saw its share raise to around $30-million with it increasing by one million dollars each year throughout the duration of the Big Ten's TV deal. Then, after that the Ducks and Huskies will receive full share like USC and UCLA on the next TV contract.
After the writing was on the wall both Arizona, ASU and Utah informed the Pac-12 of their decision to join the Big 12 given the fact that both Washington and Oregon were out.
The sad part is that San Diego State University was set to join the conference (Pac-12) following the announcement of the new TV deal and had filled out the paper work and had a press release ready to email out. Now, the Aztecs are looking for a new home still and the Big 12 is on their radar.
It will be getting ugly here in the days to come for the Pac-12 as the conference has started to file paperwork to prepare to sue ESPN and FOX for collusion they believe took place. The conference thinks the two major networks purposely refused to give them a deal and were in works with the Big Ten and Big 12 to start poaching the Pac-12 teams off one-by-one.
A lot more details to this and I can answer any questions you have.
