Post by chinmusic on Sept 29, 2022 5:37:26 GMT -8
The Big Ten is not done with its pursuit of Pac-12 programs, CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd reports.
State of play: Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren is continuing to pursue an offer from Amazon for additional Big Ten football media rights revenue, Dodds reports, which could push Big Ten presidents to push for more westward expansion. This comes just a month after the Big Ten signed a historic media-rights package with FOX, CBS and NBC that reportedly will pay the league members more than $8 billion over seven years.
Targets: Dodd mentions California, Oregon, Stanford and Washington as potential “valuable additions” to the Big Ten.
The potential fallout: “If the Big Ten makes such a move, it would almost certainly increase the likelihood the Big 12 is able to get some combination of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah from the Pac-12, thus crushing the Pac-12 and hanging Oregon State and Washington State out to dry,” Dodd reports.
Washington State and Oregon State likely would then move to the Mountain West, Dodds writes.
State of play: Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren is continuing to pursue an offer from Amazon for additional Big Ten football media rights revenue, Dodds reports, which could push Big Ten presidents to push for more westward expansion. This comes just a month after the Big Ten signed a historic media-rights package with FOX, CBS and NBC that reportedly will pay the league members more than $8 billion over seven years.
Targets: Dodd mentions California, Oregon, Stanford and Washington as potential “valuable additions” to the Big Ten.
The potential fallout: “If the Big Ten makes such a move, it would almost certainly increase the likelihood the Big 12 is able to get some combination of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah from the Pac-12, thus crushing the Pac-12 and hanging Oregon State and Washington State out to dry,” Dodd reports.
Washington State and Oregon State likely would then move to the Mountain West, Dodds writes.
