The statements are good.
In terms of relevance, they far surpass social media posts, dispossessions, or savage claims of people seeking to have an internal clue to the current change in college football readjustment.
On Tuesday, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark issued an official statement, confirming that its newly reorganized 12-school conference will hold readjustment talks with six of the Pac-12, according to a contingent from Washington, Oregon. Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Arizona. State.
As the college football landscape continues to tremble beneath everyone’s feet, this could be UW’s best option. The Huskies would be able to share a fair and equitable payment of television media rights, estimated at $ 500 million to $ 600 million, which would allow them to present a competitive football team with everyone else.
In case the Huskies stay in the Pac-12, media reports have the pay cut between $ 200 million and $ 250 million at best. The Big Ten, operating from a position of strength, would supply something in the middle for incoming teams and well below its founding members.
With this option, the Pac-12 would preserve half of its league while joining forces with a number of Texas schools in Baylor, Houston, Texas Tech and TCU, the remnants of Big 8 in Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State. and Oklahoma State, and a mix of BYU, Cincinnati, Central Florida, and West Virginia.
Would the big 18 call it that?
The Huskies have never played football in Central Florida or West Virginia.
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Cincinnati, of course, qualified for the last CFP playoff as a fourth inning and lost to Alabama 27-6.
The UW and the Bearcats have faced off just before, in 1974, when Jim Owens ’last Husky team won at home 21-17.
Interestingly, this sudden encounter of the Pac-12 and Big 12 minds comes after this latest conference lost Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC earlier this year. According to reports, the Big 12 asked the Pac-12 for a discussion on some sort of consolidation at the time and it was rejected.
If anything came together between these two, it would no doubt mark the end of the Pac-12 and college football reduced to four major conferences.
Of course, these leagues would have to settle for a new name and Big 18 would be an option, as would a sort of Big 12 / Pac-12 hybrid.
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