Thursday & Friday the world of college media will be focused on Big12 media days. While it’s obvious that talk about Texas and Oklahoma leaving and the impact on the league of mvthe four newcomers with garner their share of media focus. That said, you can bet Brett Yormark Is licking his chops to skewer his buddy George and the Pac 12 even more. In all likelihood, he will boast about expansion, PAC 12 failure to have no deal so far, and various teams in the Pac 12 who really are interested in joining the Big 12. Whether that’s true or not is irrelevant he wants to pump up his conference and knocked down the Pac 12 a couple more notches. Knowing that George Kliavkoff will not be out in front this pending media barrage defending his conference, or his reputation, Kliavkoff is about to take another big media hit.
This begs the question. If the next two weeks is a pile on George exercise, then the media deal that is may finally be announced sometime in July if then, fails to meet even minimum expectations is Kliavkoff’s job in jeopardy? He likely won’t be negotiating the next deal in 4-6 years and he’s done almost nothing to promote the Pac 12. University presidents have gotta be looking for another commissioner. Kliavkoff’s saving grace is the fact that Larry Scott was such a horrible commissioner the bar was really set low for him. Sadly, George has failed to take advantage of that.
Hopefully the next Pac12 commissioner will have some football experience and some imagination on how he can improve the standing of the Pac 12. Because Kliavkoff has been a complete failure.
This begs the question. If the next two weeks is a pile on George exercise, then the media deal that is may finally be announced sometime in July if then, fails to meet even minimum expectations is Kliavkoff’s job in jeopardy? He likely won’t be negotiating the next deal in 4-6 years and he’s done almost nothing to promote the Pac 12. University presidents have gotta be looking for another commissioner. Kliavkoff’s saving grace is the fact that Larry Scott was such a horrible commissioner the bar was really set low for him. Sadly, George has failed to take advantage of that.
Hopefully the next Pac12 commissioner will have some football experience and some imagination on how he can improve the standing of the Pac 12. Because Kliavkoff has been a complete failure.
