Vannini: College sports may not like what lies at the end of the path paved with TV money
1 year, 5 months ago

Vannini: College sports may not like what lies at the end of the path paved with TV money

New York Times  

The final nail in the coffin of the modern Pac-12 came from the golf course, as Oregon Board of Trustees chair Steve Holwerda conducted a board meeting via Zoom. Big Ten commissioner Tony Pettiti and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said at their respective media days last month that they weren’t interested in expanding. If TV money is worth killing a century-old conference and older in-state rivalries, what’s to keep the next shift from kicking out the schools that don’t bring as much value as the big brands? I just don’t want to see another college administrator begging Congress for help reining in NIL or tampering with the idea that it would protect college sports. The Big Ten commissioner who added USC and UCLA last year — the beginning of the end of the Pac-12 — bailed on college sports less than a year later.

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Letters to the Editor: College football has long been ‘just a business’ — but it’s fairer for athletes now
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: College football has long been ‘just a business’ — but it’s fairer for athletes now

LA Times  

Notre Dame and Navy face off in an NCAA college football game in Baltimore in 2022. To the editor: I must respectfully challenge the recent opinion piece claiming that “name and likeness” agreements and modern college football economics have corrupted the sport. Ending the NCAA’s nonprofit status and allowing schools to pay athletes directly, just as they pay coaches, would …

Analysis: Big 12 must ask not only why UConn, but why now as Yormark remains open for business
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Analysis: Big 12 must ask not only why UConn, but why now as Yormark remains open for business

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! As Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark steps up discussions in the conference about adding UConn, the question isn’t so much why invite the Huskies as why do it now. “There has never been a better time than right now to be part of the Big 12,” …

What I heard at Big 12 spring meetings: Settlement fallout, ‘value creation’ on everyone’s minds
7 months, 1 week ago

What I heard at Big 12 spring meetings: Settlement fallout, ‘value creation’ on everyone’s minds

New York Times  

— The uncertain future of college sports was on the agenda at Big 12 spring meetings this week. “So I don’t look at it as a bad thing.” Settlement fallout Similar to the vibes coming out of the SEC spring meetings, the unknowns surrounding the House settlement are as important as the facts, though that hasn’t stopped administrators from strategizing …

SEC gathers to sort through consequences of settlement, comes away with more questions than answers
7 months, 1 week ago

SEC gathers to sort through consequences of settlement, comes away with more questions than answers

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “It’s going to be a process,” Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin said. “We have to recognize we don’t have all the answers right now.” One way to boost revenue schools are already considering is selling advertising that would be displayed on football fields or uniforms. In …

New Big 12 out to prove bigger bank accounts don’t always mean better football teams in 12-team CFP
8 months, 1 week ago

New Big 12 out to prove bigger bank accounts don’t always mean better football teams in 12-team CFP

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! SCOTTDALE, Ariz. — Before the realigned Big 12 — sans Oklahoma and Texas —even kicks off, the expanded College Football Playoff’s new revenue structure has created a perception that the conference is no longer the equal of the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference. Big 12 commissioner …

Pac-12 parts ways with Commissioner George Kliavkoff, who oversaw demise of league with realignment
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Pac-12 parts ways with Commissioner George Kliavkoff, who oversaw demise of league with realignment

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The Pac-12 is parting ways with Commissioner George Kliavkoff after the former MGM executive oversaw the demise of the once-powerful league during a wave of conference realignment last year. The Pac-12 Board of Directors announced the move Friday in a two-sentence news release, saying the conference …

NCAA spent years fighting losing battles and left itself helpless to defend legal challenges
11 months, 1 week ago

NCAA spent years fighting losing battles and left itself helpless to defend legal challenges

Associated Press  

Years of fighting losing battles have left the NCAA almost helpless to defend itself. Amy Perko, CEO of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Sports, said the NCAA’s insistence of trying to govern major college football while it has no jurisdiction over its postseason and no say in how the billions in revenue it generates are spent is the root of …

AP Sports Story of the Year: Realignment, stunning demise of Pac-12 usher in super conference era
1 year ago

AP Sports Story of the Year: Realignment, stunning demise of Pac-12 usher in super conference era

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The redrawing of the college sports map and demise of the Pac-12, a conference that claims the most NCAA championships and a legacy that includes the likes of Jackie Robinson, Bill Walton, Aaron Rodgers, Katie Ledecky, Tiger Woods and Cheryl Miller, made conference realignment The Associated …

Big 12 committed to title game even with CFP expansion and changes in league, Yormark says
1 year, 1 month ago

Big 12 committed to title game even with CFP expansion and changes in league, Yormark says

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! ARLINGTON, Texas — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said his still-evolving conference remains committed to having a championship game even as the College Football Playoff expands from four to 12 teams after this season. “I have no emotion about it.. As I’ve often said, there’s never …

Opinion: The Pac-12 is the ‘Conference of Champions.’ Don’t let it disappear
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: The Pac-12 is the ‘Conference of Champions.’ Don’t let it disappear

LA Times  

USC Trojans celebrate their victory in the Division 1 NCAA Women’s Beach Volleyball Championship in May 2023. Consider the Olympic sports contested across the NCAA: Pac-12 schools dominate the top 25 national rankings and finishes, and Stanford, UCLA and USC sweep the podium spots for schools with the most NCAA team titles. Indeed, it is Olympic sports that have made …

Behind the scenes of Brett Yormark’s yearlong push to get the Big 12 to 16
1 year, 3 months ago

Behind the scenes of Brett Yormark’s yearlong push to get the Big 12 to 16

New York Times  

Mack Rhoades was pacing in his vacation home in New Mexico, starting to seriously fear the deal was falling apart. Texas Tech president Lawrence Schovanec, who led the three-person search committee with Livingstone and Kansas chancellor Douglas Girod, said the Big 12 board labeled Yormark as the “high risk, high reward” finalist. “If you’re ESPN and Fox, does it hurt …

The Arrogance and Incompetence Destroying a Cornerstone of College Sports
1 year, 5 months ago

The Arrogance and Incompetence Destroying a Cornerstone of College Sports

Slate  

The Pac-12 Conference, which started in 1915 as the Pacific Coast Conference and donned a bunch of names over a successful century of Western teams playing games with one another, is dead. After USC and UCLA exited for the Big Ten last summer, and after Colorado headed for the Big 12 last month, the conference took on additional water on …

With college football realignment, we’re once again asking, ‘What. Is. Happening?’
1 year, 5 months ago

With college football realignment, we’re once again asking, ‘What. Is. Happening?’

New York Times  

Is anyone else having a serious case of realignment deja vu? In the meantime, during the span of a few hours Wednesday, reports emerged that the Big Ten is exploring adding more West Coast schools, and Florida State’s president openly threatened that his school might leave the ACC. The earthquake that began when Texas and Oklahoma left the Big 12 …

Commentary: George Kliavkoff and the new Pac-9 learn a hard lesson. Universities follow the money
1 year, 5 months ago

Commentary: George Kliavkoff and the new Pac-9 learn a hard lesson. Universities follow the money

LA Times  

Tasked with cleaning up Larry Scott’s mess, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff got little help from college presidents, with USC, UCLA and Colorado following the money and leaving the conference. Texas’ decision to stay put and the NCAA’s decision to cripple the Trojans left the Pac-12 without a strong football brand to carry the conference and its ill-conceived Pac-12 Network. While …

Colorado leaving Pac-12 and returning to Big 12 in 2024 following unanimous vote by board of regents
1 year, 5 months ago

Colorado leaving Pac-12 and returning to Big 12 in 2024 following unanimous vote by board of regents

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado is leaving the Pac-12 to return to the conference the Buffaloes jilted a dozen years ago, and the Big 12 celebrated the reunion with a two-word statement released through Commissioner Brett Yomark: “They’re back.” “The landscape of collegiate sports is ever-evolving, and …

The Pac-12 could have been a disruptor. Now it might be falling to pieces
1 year, 5 months ago

The Pac-12 could have been a disruptor. Now it might be falling to pieces

New York Times  

George Kliavkoff was officially appointed commissioner of the Pac-12 on May 13, 2021. The announcement included a statement by then-Oregon president Michael H. Schill that described Kliavkoff, president of entertainment and sports at MGM Resorts, as “the new prototype for a sports commissioner.” “While George has deep sports experience, his biggest asset is his ability to listen, connect with diverse …

College football conference realignment timeline: 124 years of drama, money and bitterness
1 year, 5 months ago

College football conference realignment timeline: 124 years of drama, money and bitterness

New York Times  

The Western Conference, known today as the Big Ten, was formed in 1896 by the universities of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin and Chicago. GO DEEPER Journey back to Sewanee, a founding SEC member that has no regrets Dec. 12, 1948: Nearly a decade after original member Chicago dropped football, the Western Conference becomes the Big Ten again by …

Inside UCF’s rise from D-III to Big 12 and what’s next: ‘This could be the premier place’
1 year, 5 months ago

Inside UCF’s rise from D-III to Big 12 and what’s next: ‘This could be the premier place’

New York Times  

ORLANDO — As the clock struck midnight, UCF supporters popped champagne. “Getting an MLS team was big, but I think UCF getting in the Big 12 is even bigger,” said Mike Bianchi, an Orlando radio host and columnist since 2000. I started for four years, broke every school record there was.” After Hinshaw came Daunte Culpepper, who immediately broke all …

Arizona president Robert C. Robbins: Pac-12 media deal will be ‘better’ than Big 12’s
1 year, 9 months ago

Arizona president Robert C. Robbins: Pac-12 media deal will be ‘better’ than Big 12’s

New York Times  

In a wide-ranging 50-minute interview Wednesday, Arizona President Robert C. Robbins said he expects the Pac-12 to finalize a media rights deal “within the next couple of weeks,” and that he believes the dollar figure will be “better” than the Big 12’s recent extension with ESPN and Fox worth $31.7 million per school annually. I think we’ll be the third-best …

Is the Pac-12 really this bad? Why the league has no TV deal without USC and UCLA
1 year, 10 months ago

Is the Pac-12 really this bad? Why the league has no TV deal without USC and UCLA

LA Times  

A few days after USC and UCLA forever altered the college sports landscape with their move to the Big Ten Conference last summer, the Pac-12 announced that it would begin its exclusive 90-day negotiating window with ESPN and Fox for its long-awaited next media rights agreement. The move by Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff to begin that process early was meant …

What we’re hearing on Pac-12 expansion, SMU, the Big 12 and more
1 year, 11 months ago

What we’re hearing on Pac-12 expansion, SMU, the Big 12 and more

New York Times  

Editor’s note: The Big 12 and SEC confirmed Thursday night that Oklahoma and Texas will join the SEC in 2024 after an exit agreement was reached. Realignment is back in the news, thanks to continued discussions within the Big 12 about early exits for Oklahoma and Texas, and Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff’s visit to SMU on Wednesday. Today, it’s uncertain …

‘Been Everywhere': TCU conference-hopping run to title game
2 years ago

‘Been Everywhere': TCU conference-hopping run to title game

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “It’s like that old song by Hank Snow, ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’ — our fans, they’ve traveled all over the place,” said John Denton, the Horned Frogs’ kicker for their 1984 Bluebonnet Bowl team who has been part of their radio broadcasts since 1988. whether it’s teams …

Pac-12’s Kliavkoff jabs Big 12, touts future after USC, UCLA
2 years, 5 months ago

Pac-12’s Kliavkoff jabs Big 12, touts future after USC, UCLA

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Kliavkoff confirmed the Pac-12 is actively exploring expansion and lobbed several feisty jabs at the Big 12 during an eventful opening speech at his conference’s football media day Friday in the nation’s second-largest media market. While painting a promising picture of the league’s future even after …

New commish: Big 12 open for business amid realignment talk
2 years, 5 months ago

New commish: Big 12 open for business amid realignment talk

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! ARLINGTON, Texas — New Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark declared the league “open for business,” saying that while nothing is imminent all options will be considered as he takes over with conference realignment again shaking college sports. “We are exploring all options and we are open …

Big 12 in ‘serious’ talks with 6 Pac-12 schools: Sources
2 years, 6 months ago

Big 12 in ‘serious’ talks with 6 Pac-12 schools: Sources

New York Times  

The Big 12 is in “serious” talks with six Pac-12 members, sources told The Athletic. Sources expressed optimism that new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, hired last week, can pull it off. The Pac-12, despite losing two flagship schools in USC and UCLA last week, is “not panicked,” a source told The Athletic. A former Pac-12 administrator put it in …

Commentary: George Kliavkoff got burned by USC and UCLA. Now he’s chasing a Pac-12 miracle
2 years, 6 months ago

Commentary: George Kliavkoff got burned by USC and UCLA. Now he’s chasing a Pac-12 miracle

LA Times  

Late last July at Pac-12 media day, I met George Kliavkoff in the lobby of the W Hollywood, looking for a reason to be optimistic about the league’s future after Texas and Oklahoma bolted the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference. In the Pac-12, proud programs like Oregon, Washington and Stanford are undeniably open for business and hoping to join …

USC and UCLA rock college sports by leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten
2 years, 6 months ago

USC and UCLA rock college sports by leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten

LA Times  

It may be hard to imagine — USC cardinal and gold and UCLA blue and gold blending into the pageantry that permeates through frosty fall Saturdays in America’s heartland. Ultimately, the Big Ten is the best home for USC and Trojan athletics as we move into the new world of collegiate sports.” UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond told The Times, …

Commentary: Pac-12 took heat for delaying playoff expansion. But SEC came out biggest loser
2 years, 10 months ago

Commentary: Pac-12 took heat for delaying playoff expansion. But SEC came out biggest loser

LA Times  

For too long, the Pac-12 has served as an almost-willing national punching bag. During the weekend, as passionate college football observers processed the news that the College Football Playoff would not expand before the 2026 season, it was only natural that the sport’s opinion shapers assigned the proverbial clown suit to the West Coast’s Power Five conference. The point I’m …

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Ducks make statement for Pac-12 at OSU
3 years, 3 months ago

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Ducks make statement for Pac-12 at OSU

Associated Press  

12 Oregon rolled into No. The consensus best team in the Pac-12 beat the consensus best team in the Big Ten on Saturday for the league’s first nonconference victory against a top-five team since Stanford beat Notre Dame in 2015. The last two weeks, UCLA pushed around LSU and then Oregon beat the big, bad Buckeyes in the Horseshoe, while …

The 4 factors of College Football Playoff expansion that make hitting pause the most likely next step
3 years, 4 months ago

The 4 factors of College Football Playoff expansion that make hitting pause the most likely next step

New York Times  

In June, a four-person working group within the College Football Playoff Management Committee dramatically unveiled a 12-team Playoff proposal. Bowlsby even went out of his way to give “particular credit” to Sankey when they announced the 12-team proposal “because the SEC is going to do just fine whether we stay at four or go to eight or move to some …

Commentary: Pac-12, Big Ten and ACC feeling morally superior to SEC, but will pact bring change?
3 years, 4 months ago

Commentary: Pac-12, Big Ten and ACC feeling morally superior to SEC, but will pact bring change?

LA Times  

They said it wasn’t about the money. “What it signifies is there’s still a lot of goodness in college athletics.” Tuesday, the Pac-12, Big Ten and Atlantic Coast conferences, three of the “Power Five,” made official their “alliance” to collaborate in mapping a future for college sports that suits them — not the Southeastern Conference, which spurred this meeting of …

As the Texas Senate takes on Big 12 realignment, quips and criticisms fly in the push for details
3 years, 5 months ago

As the Texas Senate takes on Big 12 realignment, quips and criticisms fly in the push for details

New York Times  

No place mixes college football and politics quite like Texas. “I did think through, ‘Can the Big 12 get to that SEC-like future,’” Hartzell said. “Ultimately, it didn’t change our course.” As the senators tried to drill down on why Texas would leave the Big 12 for the SEC, Hartzell elaborated on several factors. “The expectation is we’ll wind it …

Commentary: Pac-12’s pause on football decision buys it time to consider public health
4 years, 3 months ago

Commentary: Pac-12’s pause on football decision buys it time to consider public health

LA Times  

As a tidal wave of momentum crested toward a Pac-12 fall football restart Wednesday, with athletic directors from USC and UCLA combining forces to push aside county regulations that had kept their teams from contact, a voice of reason came from Los Angeles City Hall. For as much concern has been properly placed on players being at increased risk of …

Pac-12 football plans remain in holding pattern
4 years, 3 months ago

Pac-12 football plans remain in holding pattern

Associated Press  

The Pac-12 took a significant step toward joining the Big Ten in playing football in the fall, getting clearance to hold full-fledged practices from the states of California and Oregon. Later Wednesday, the Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott announced a breakthrough with the California and Oregon governors that was helped along by the conference’s plans to soon begin testing athletes daily …

Commentary: There’s a path to playing college football. Clearly, lawyers have found it
4 years, 4 months ago

Commentary: There’s a path to playing college football. Clearly, lawyers have found it

LA Times  

The Southeastern Conference, along with the Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conference, are moving forward with season plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, with the same information available, the Big 12, Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences dug in their cleats and decided they’d keep the ball moving toward a fall season. “I feel like the Titanic — we have hit …

Big Ten, Pac-12 pull plug on fall football amid pandemic
4 years, 4 months ago

Big Ten, Pac-12 pull plug on fall football amid pandemic

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! A crumbling college football season took a massive hit Tuesday when the Big Ten and Pac-12, two historic and powerful conferences, succumbed to the pandemic and canceled their fall football seasons. Less than a week ago, the Big Ten — which includes perennial powers such …

SEC, ACC, Big 12 still hoping to play football this fall
4 years, 4 months ago

SEC, ACC, Big 12 still hoping to play football this fall

Associated Press  

And then there were three. The Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12 and Southeastern Conference were still moving forward Tuesday with plans for a fall college football season even as two other Power Five leagues, the Big Ten and the Pac-12, called things off. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said he wanted to learn more about the factors that led the Big …

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