Hard to imagine any school would view this deal as close to competitive with the BIG12 deal.
Big 12 says they will take one more to pair up with CO. However, it had been talked about taking three more but apparently they didn't want to go that large.
There have been some rumors floating that apple is positioning to buy Disney+ which would substantially increase their subscribers. Maybe marvel can design the new pac12 unis.lol
That is a lot of teams without dividing up into smaller divisions or "pods". But I'd rather Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford have a home somewhere rather than be left orphaned.
I don't understand why they need to do this. The PAC used to be the Pac 8. Oregon and Washington could dominate the league, with occasional upstarts Wash State, Oregon State, and Stanford.
The money is way too light. They’ll be giving up $10M to the big 12. But $30M plus to the big 10 and SEC. That 20M a year is also 17M less than they got this year. No way can they do that. Oregon may get a Nike check to make up the difference but nobody else will. The athletic departments at the PAC 12 schools will go bankrupt.
You would think that a 16+ conference would water down the media shares for each team. The TV partners are only going to go so high on their bids.
At 18 or 20, you probably end up splitting into two pretty separate football divisions with a conference championship.
