The Pac-12 as we know it is dead. Maybe the conference continues in a very technical and official way, but when a conference is reduced to four schools, and at least one of them is likely to leave, that’s no longer a conference. That is a collection of refugees looking for a home.
The past few weeks in the college sports industry have given us another realignment whirlwind. If you had asked Pac-12 observers two months ago what was going to happen this summer, you would have been told (most likely) that San Diego State was going to join the Pac-12. You also would have been told that the conference was not doing to die this ugly public death we witnessed on Friday, when five schools left the conference and essentially ended any last hopes of survival.
Yet, San Diego State was never added. Colorado got mad. The television deal fell apart. The Apple TV deal was nowhere near sufficient. RIP, Pac-12.
We invited Ducks Wire editor Zachary Neel on our podcast to review how the Pac-12 met its untimely end. Ian Hest produced the show.
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