What does panic look and sound like?
It sounds like Pac-12 presidents in the days and hours before five conference schools abandoned ship, leaving behind four schools: Stanford, Cal, Oregon State and Washington State.
You have probably heard that University of Arizona President Robert Robbins destroyed Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff in public for his woefully inadequate Apple TV deal.
That wasn’t an indicator of panic. That was an indicator of the dissatisfaction that ran through the members of the Pac-12 CEO Group. The dissatisfaction, however, can be connected to the sense of panic that emerged from one (undisclosed) Pac-12 school president, who expressed the hope that seven Pac-12 schools could be invited to a Power Five conference … but that Oregon State and Washington State would be left behind in the cold.
Solidarity and sticking together … except for those two schools in the Northwest without any power. It’s such a bad look for the Pac-12.
That’s basically what the Pac-12 is all about: making itself look worse, and worse and even worse.
Here’s the reaction to another astonishingly embarrassing part of the Pac-12’s collapse and implosion, and the absolutely nonexistent leadership that brought about this disaster:
