Colorado is impatient, so George Kliavkoff has only one chess move left

Deal or no deal? That’s the only relevant question before Colorado’s board of regents meets to leave the Pac-12.

There is really only one move left for George Kliavkoff to make. The question is whether he has the skill and the finesse to pull it off.

You can imagine how frantic and hectic Kliavkoff’s life is right now, on the evening of Wednesday, July 26, 2023. His position as Pac-12 commissioner is truly at stake.

If the conference dies, he’s out of a job. More than that, he will go down in history as the man who failed to keep the Pac-12 together and, ultimately, in existence. No one wants that on his career biography, so if Kliavkoff wants to save everything, including the Pac-12, there’s only one thing he needs to focus on in the next 12 to 20 hours, before Colorado’s board of regents meets to discuss a probable move to the Big 12.

Let’s go through the plot points attached to this one final rescue plan for the Pac-12: