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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4711153, member: 71"] I'm not sure it was all posturing. You need to realize that these decisions aren't made in a vacuum and I really don't think anyone, anywhere was anticipating the bonehead performance Kliavkoff enacted in negotiating the P-12's media deal. He spent months publicly stating that they were close to completion and the dollars would exceed the B-12 but never actually present anything to the conference's member schools. It reached the point where the conference basically demanded that he show them what he has and they found out it was 2/3 of the B-12's deal with no linear programming. That deal was likely available for months yet he was afraid to present it (until he could no longer delay) as he knew it was inadequate He could not have played this any worse if his intent was to blow up the P-12. This (the precarious situation the P-12 is in) is the monkey wrench in the works that nobody anticipated. [/QUOTE]