What Ultimately Caused The Pac-12 Conference To Fall Apart?

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - So I gotta ask you, Rick,

00:05 big news college football realignment

00:08 has been topic of conversation here.

00:11 What the hell happened at the Pac-12 here after 108 years?

00:14 - It's now the Pac-4.

00:18 You know what's gonna happen now?

00:20 I've become an Oregon State fan

00:23 'cause they get a buy to the semis every year, right?

00:26 Oh, no, that's not gonna happen.

00:28 So here's what really happened.

00:30 When the best deal was put on the table

00:32 and it was the Apple streaming kind of deal,

00:34 like the MLS one, where you get it based on subscriptions.

00:37 That's okay in certain markets and certain sports,

00:41 but if you're an athletic director

00:43 and you've gotta use guaranteed revenue to go to the banks

00:46 and then bond and finance facilities and new programs

00:51 and sustaining programs and programs like golf and tennis

00:54 that lose money but are very important and dormitories,

00:57 you can't base your future on speculative subscriptions.

01:01 So they had no choice.

01:03 Ray Anderson, a good friend at ASU, Joe Castiglione,

01:07 we did an interview with him, the OUAD,

01:08 he's gonna be on our show, on the record in a few weeks.

01:13 It's very important stuff and they all say the same thing.

01:15 We have a duty, not to college football,

01:17 we have a duty to protect the integrity

01:19 of our athletic department revenues.

01:22 So they're finding the money

01:25 and if you're a conference commissioner

01:27 and you don't have an ironclad injunction

01:29 to keep your team in your conference,

01:32 you gotta stay one step ahead.

01:33 And the commissioner, former maybe,

01:35 commissioner of the Pac-12, has been one step behind.

01:39 (upbeat music)

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