The Pac-12 commissioner had a sobering joke about drinking at the media event’s open bar

Got to have an open bar when your conference has just two teams left in it.

To say it’s been a rough year for the Pac-12 is an understatement.

It’s more like the Pac-2 with just Washington State and Oregon State left thanks to schools bolting for other conferences, so when commissioner Teresa Gould held a media day, she could only joke about all that.

Per reporters in attendance, she had this to say about the open bar on Wednesday night: “We are drinking tonight. If anyone has earned the right to drink, it is the Pac-12.”

That is both very funny and very sad. That and the photos of the two mascots on stage just made it quite rough:

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