It’s been 10 years since CU decided to leave behind the Big 12 in favor of the Pac-12. Buffs AD Rick George is one of those somebodies, and while he bleeds CU gold, George’s experience with Major League Baseball and the PGA has already placed him on speculative shortlists. The conference needs somebody who gets it. Again, those five-stars want to go where they can be watched. And the Pac-12 hasn’t sniffed the mega millions of the College Football Playoff since 2016. While the outlook is kinder on the women’s hoops front, COVID-19 has laid siege to baseball and to the Olympic sports on which a warm-weather conference built decades of street cred.īut football pulls the sled. Men’s basketball is interesting but benign nationally, at least until UCLA and coach Mick Cronin fully shake off the remains of the Steve Alford Era. The last decade left the league a wounded animal, on several fronts.
The Pac-12’s current TV rights deals all expire after the 2023-24 academic year, and they can’t afford to get the next one wrong. They need someone with collegiate administrative roots (which Scott lacked) campus perspective and sympathies (he lacked those, too) a big Rolodex and television nous. The pandemic has cost conference athletic departments anywhere from $30 million to $65 million already this fiscal year, according to estimates by Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News, and that was with trying to milk seven weeks of football to try and feed the television beast, providing $200 million in revenues the league didn’t have to refund back to its broadcast partners. But they’ve got to hit a ringing double off the wall, if not a triple in the gap. The Pac-12’s next guy - or gal - doesn’t have to be a home run. “Looking forward, we’ll want our next commissioner to focus on our blend of strengths that includes high academic achievement, competitiveness on the fields of play and diversity of our people and markets.” “He also provided admirable leadership in guiding the conference through the pandemic. “I appreciate Larry’s innovative approach, which helped bring about CU Boulder’s move to the Pac-12 Conference and set the league up at the time with a lucrative new television deal,” Buffs chancellor Phil DiStefano said via a statement released Thursday by the university. Scott had too much of a free hand too early in his tenure, and it wound up costing the Pac-12 dearly. As Dick Monfort gets further unhinged from reality, he’s taking best fans in baseball down with him.Īlthough it says a lot about Limo Larry that many Buffs fans over 35 would actually prefer life in the Big 12 right about now. Keeler: Please buy our Rockies, Rob Walton.
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