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Rumor is that the TV deal is being held up at the moment over production credit. There is wrangling over who is credited for production and how much branding the Pac-12 network (or whatever it will be called in the future) gets in the games. The CW will have several people at every game and San Ramon to "handle the feed" it wont be a solo Pac 12 production

"Todays game is brought to you by Pacific West Sports Network on the CW".

Or "Todays game is brought to you by the CW"

(and apparently the number of tickets the CW gets for games - the CW wants a bunch of tickets to hand to vendors, promotional gifts, execs, and etc. Curious how many if its become a bargaining snag)

4 Arizona football players apparently involved in Tucson shooting

https://www.kgun9.com/news/community-inspired-journalism/midtown-news/house-party-shooting-ua-student-saw-gunfire-from-car-four-football-players-named-in-search-warrant

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40075634/former-coach-mike-riley-named-cfp-selection-committee

Beav's in CFP every year from now on. Hot damn!

Stanford is supposedly trying to get into the B1G with FSU and UNC. The B1G had signaled in August of 2023 they would accept Stanford but Fox refused to pay any additional money for them as "they add little value" to the TV network.

Stanford is apparently now offering to forgo all media share distribution and take only a CFP payout (which is still $22 million a school in 2026) through the 2029 season if they are allowed into the B1G. This would also likely have to happen prior to Stanfords official entry into the ACC, so Stanford is trying to get this done by June 30th.

https://twitter.com/Genetics56/status/1786185695834374655?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Cal will be left behind, abandoned to join the ACC without a partner within 2000 miles.

The CW will carry 10 games “immediately following ACC programming” on Saturday’s. So they will not be getting any noon kickoffs,it looks like

The three “valuable” games were purchased by Fox

From John Canzano -

“The Civil War football game (Sept. 14) between OSU and Oregon in Corvallis will air on Fox. The Washington State vs. Texas Tech game in Pullman on Sept. 7 will also be a Fox broadcast. Fox will also own the rights to the Pac-12 football matchup between the Cougars and Beavers on Nov. 23 at Reser Stadium.“

How much will be revealed in an official release later today

The bottom half of the ACC, Big12, and of course the Pac likely cant afford a payroll, just for football, thats 20-25% of their entire athletic budget.

Plus there will be NIL deals on top of payroll so teams like Ohio State and Texas would likely have total team payrolls of close to $30 million dollars a year.

I assume this creates a serious separation of programs, more than it already is. I dont even see Kansas and Utah able to spend $20 million on football payroll alone. Plus womens and mens BBall payrolls.

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1785289422927180262

The Big Ten Information X account claimed during an argument that Stanford and Cal haven’t officially joined the ACC and won’t until July 1st and because of this have the option to rescind the invitation to join for a small fee until June 30th.

Anyone have a link to live stream the spring football games on the pac 12 network today?

Sankey, Petitti, and Yormark and their member schools are being romanced by private equity bros to float hundreds of billions into Professional College Football.

The plan that was told to Ross Dellenger is three 20 team leagues with regional divisions and an NFL style playoff structure. A complete breakaway from the rest of college football as these teams would be a professional league that would not cross pollinate with amateur teams - no OOC games. They imagine they would take 99% of the money and leave the rest of college football to become flag football clubs.

By leaving behind their existing conferences the Big 3 can walk away from their bottom tier schools and take only earners

Schools are already structuring their athletic departments to pay players. Pro college football is coming, this might be the structure it winds up being.

What are your 60 teams? The 3 leagues will each have the original conferences "key schools" and branding feel of the original conference.

How to do you break them down into the four regional divisions?

Is he following Shadeur to the NFL as a package deal? Or moving on to another, larger, college gig?

Its becoming obvious he wont be in Boulder next year. Colorado currently has zero 2025 commits and no real push to get any - there are half a dozen potential recruits coming to the spring game, but COACH PRIME still hasnt done any visits

1 - Caleb Williams (USC)

8 - Michael Penix Jr (UofW)

9 - Rome Odunze (UofW)

12 - Bo Nix (Oregon)

14 - Taliese Fuaga (Oregon State)

15 - Laiatu Latu (UCLA)

The Athletic's college football podcast today interviewed Manny Navarro, their Florida college football expert, and in a rundown on the Gators and Napier's odds of being fired this season - Billy is likely out without a bowl appearance and a loss at home to UCF is the number one way and earliest way Billy is fired mid season. With the AD Stricklin going as well.

I am buying tons of Knightro gear and sending a donation to the Kingdom collective rn

Subtext of his CFP reporting is that the CFP meetings were used by Fox, ESPN, B1G, SEC, and Big12 to hold meetings to divvy up the ACC. One AD told him,”there isn’t room for four Power conferences”

He should be doing the rounds today on sports TV and radio with this story.

It's been TV money, TV priority, TV scheduling, and TV market geographics. TV is a feed. Live sports are major attractions. Tabloid news is the other.

Look at the map. TV is aggressively circling it's audience, as it should. But political TV has the dedicated market, and sports TV has deferred to that map. That's why the FBS has become what it is now.

He last day wont be until next spring

But the last person outta Pullman hit the lights…..

Gabarri Johnson showed up without the boot to practice Thursday and is expected to participate on Saturday

Gevani McCoy is expected to be quarterback 1 - Bray said McCoy made a breakthrough in the last week and has shown vast improvement. Jake Hedberg of Beaver Blitz says that McCoy is making faster decisions - he was holding the ball to long and getting “sacked” way too often in practice

Don’t know if we will see much of Dr Ben

The Beavers want to show off how good they think Hankerson is and prove they still have a running game without Damien. Expect them to throw to him and Jam Griffin a lot.

We need to make sure we maintain our PAC rivalries with the new conferences (civil war,Apple cup, ucla-cal,stanford-usc,cal-usc, stanford-ucla.the Cali schools can play their main rival yearly then play one of the other two a year then the next team the following year.they could also add a trophy for the California rivals to spice up the rivalry since they'd only be playing once every two years. It would be cool if cal & UCLA played for a big golden bear trophy or of two bears fighting would also be dope

TV Deal - After Pat Chun left, Teresa Gould took the lead in the TV deal and it has been delayed. Asked when we find out Scott says,”if this was a baseball game we’d be in extra innings, but this is definitely the last inning”.

Future of the Pac - both the Coug’s and Beav’s are trying to schedule as many Big12 games as they can hoping for partnerships with schools they “share a lot with”. The Pac wants an invite to the Big12 and could/would join for zero dollars. If they straight up join the Big12 they don’t get to keep the bulk of the Pac-12 money, so how they afford to join for a zero share? To keep the Pac money they need 8 teams and to still exist as a conference

The strategy seems to be that when the Big12 is doing the deal to snap up a couple ACC school - OSU and WSU are included in the deal because they are willing to take ¼ or zero share.

Leads me to believe the PAC won’t try to add any teams before February 2025 - when we find out if ESPN puts a fork in the ACC

I thought Utah, Colorado, or an AZ school might garner an invite at some point, but seeing how much money the “power 2” are clearing in media rights and playoff distributions, there’s no way any AD, President, or Chancellor is going to want to dilute their shares. Despite the fact that the Rocky Mountain or southwest schools would make a nice “bridge to the west”. Sadly, no school west of the Mississippi adds close to that value. I think it’s time to embrace life in the Big 12.

Let’s say in the hypothetical world the PAC 12 is still intact, and the ACC is falling apart what teams would y’all see joining or the PAC 12 would be trying to get if any ?