More than that, it would be the biggest conference in the country - 26 teams across all four time zones - with historical success in all major sports.
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Not only would it help save face for the Pac-12 after a tough negotiating cycle in hopes of a new TV deal, but it would also keep a lot of the rivalry schools together, rather than seeing schools like Oregon/Oregon State and Washington/Washington State break into new conferences. While this may seem like a pipe dream, there is reportedly some buzz generating for the potential merger. Merger talks are not a dream or a media hyped story there is clearly room for some serious conversations. There remains an open channel between the ACC and The Pac-12 about ways they can work together in the future. Maybe that’s crazy, but if it would get us a better TV deal, it may be worth considering,” he continued. “Probably would need to be called the Atlantic-Pacific Athletic Conference (APAC). “We could have a super conference both athletically and academically,” Guskiewicz responded. “Should we explore a partnership with the Big 12 or Pac 12” UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham texted university chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz. Andrew Carter of The News & Observer, last summer reported that university leadership at North Carolina floated the idea of a “super conference” between the ACC and Pac-12. It was actually the ACC and more to the point the University of North Carolina that brought up the idea. However, according to Forbes, this idea has been brought back up by some decision-makers in the ACC, and it could be picking up steam. The two conferences were already in discussions a summer ago about an alliance of scheduling in football, basketball, and other Olympic sports, but a deal was unable to come to fruition.
The idea is that the Pac-12 and ACC could potentially merge and form a “coastal conference” that could ultimately be as powerful and robust as what the SEC and Big Ten are looking to build.
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However, another idea has started to pick up steam, and according to Forbes, it has been discussed by the commissioners and conferences involved. All of that is still possible down the road. We’ve covered the happenings of this a lot at Ducks Wire, looking at the potential ramifications should Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff prove unable to land a contract with a new partner, which could ultimately lead to a number of teams leaving for a new league - much like USC and UCLA did a year ago - and killing the Pac-12 as we know it.Ī lot of ideas have been thrown out over the past several weeks: Oregon and Washington to the Big Ten, the “four corner” schools to the Big 12, and a merger between the Mountain West and Pac-12. While we are currently in a slow part of the offseason for college football, waiting for spring practices to start up in the next couple of weeks, the Pac-12 is making a lot of news off the field when it comes to a potential media rights deal.
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🎧📺🔥 Full Show: conference realignment talk. Latest Media Pod is- Roundtable on Top Sports Media Stories of 1st Half of '23 w/ + & We talk McAfee to CFB/ #Pac12 changing TV landscape, #LIVGolf & more! The panel for this sports media discussion includes Awful Announcing’s Ken Fang and Powers on Sports podcast host Jason Powers: We elaborated on these and other related points on the Last Word On Sports media podcast, hosted by T.J. The conference needs to be bold in offering attractive options to ESPN and Apple and any other interested media rights partner, creating standalone games and unique inventory which will give the conference a significant revenue boost and ensure the survival and stability of the conference. We have written multiple articles over the past few months which emphasized this basic point: The Pac-12 can’t play it safe when hammering out its football media rights package and trying to get a price point which will be close to the Big 12.
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With San Diego State and SMU wondering when a Pac-12 invitation will come, the college sports world (especially now that the College World Series is over) is focused on this specific drama relating to Pac-12 expansion and survival. They still haven’t arrived at a football media rights package which has been finalized and signed. The Pac-12 and George Kliavkoff still haven’t landed the plane.
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