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Message: [QUOTE="Rufus, post: 4556350, member: 7277"] These guys are based in Utah. Not sure how reliable their sources are, but if the sources are accurate, the PAC 12 is in serious, serious trouble. All sources they quote are from today (Friday, March 3). Summary of the discussions: Sources: PAC 12 "In Deep Water" at $22 million per season, per school. ESPN will not pay for SDSU or SMU to join the conference. ESPN will not pay for any PAC 12 expansion without their consent. PAC 12 only has a guarantee of 1 game on Amazon and 1 game on ESPN. 1 game Friday night (Amazon) and 1 game Saturday night (ESPN) guaranteed. ESPN has the option to add a second game to bring the conference to 3 games per week in the weeks ESPN opts to add the second game. 5 year deal. Athletic and CBS Sports: 4 Corner Schools talking to Big 12. I won't expand here since there are already other posts about this. Sources: BYU is working with Utah on Big 12 invitation. BYU is working behind the scenes with the Big 12 to make this happen. The current hurdle is the Utah top administrators do not want to be associated academically with the Big 12. Everyone associated with Utah athletically, including head football coach, want to join the Big 12. Much of the show is spent dogging the Utah admin for being too snobby and looking down at the Big 12 schools. They talk about Utah being screwed when the schools Utah wants associated with - Washington, Oregon, Stanford and Cal - end up in the B1G. If the Big 12 expands without Utah, Utah has nowhere to go. Arizona is interested in joining the Big 12. Sources: Big 12 using relationships to "pave the way" for expansion. It's a lot of backchanneling (like BYU talking to Utah) and it's not a direct contact from the Big 12 talking to the schools. Past relationships Colorado used to have in the Big 12 are talking with Colorado. The PAC 12 is splintered and they are having a "Hail Mary" meeting at the PAC 12 Conference Tournament in Las Vegas. They discuss ESPN and FOX not being rivals, but working together. They bring up ESPN's app plan to show all sporting events on the ESPN app and then sending a cut of revenue shares ESPN receives to whoever owns the media rights to what is airing based on the number of viewers using the ESPN app to watch it. [MEDIA=youtube]763jBWRnzSE[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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