The clock is ticking.
It is the morning of July 7, two weeks from Pac-12 media day on July 21. Everyone inside and outside the Pac-12 Conference, everyone in the college sports industry, fully expects the Pac-12 to have finalized a media rights deal by then. When Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff addresses the public and the press in Las Vegas on that day, he and his conference will need to have a media rights package to show to the world.
He will need to have arrived at an arrangement which satisfies the 10 Pac-12 schools left behind after USC and UCLA chose to move to the Big Ten. He will need to have a price point which is competitive with the Big 12. It would seem to be in the Pac-12’s best interests to be able to extend an invitation to San Diego State and SMU in accordance with Pac-12 media day, to not only own the news cycle but attach that news cycle to a big and positive event which means more revenue and exposure for the league and guarantees its short-term survival (for at least the rest of the decade).
Yet, San Diego State has not yet received an invitation from the Pac-12. The Mountain West has publicly stated that San Diego State has essentially left the Mountain West, and is therefore in limbo. What’s next for SDSU, the Mountain West, and the Pac-12? We talked about this at The Voice of College Football in one of the latter segments of the show. Most of the show dealt with USC recruiting, but toward the end of the broadcast, we focus on SDSU and this realignment drama:
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