Pac-12 sets new course, parts ways with Kliavkoff

• Heather Dinich, ESPN

  • Senior WriterFeb 16, 2024, 03:30 PM ET Close College football press reporter
  • Signed up with ESPN.com in 2007
  • Graduate of Indiana University

The Pac-12 and embattled commissioner George Kliavkoff have mutually accepted part ways, the league revealed Friday.The Pac-12,

which is down to Washington State and Oregon State after sweeping conference adjustment, stated it will have more information about its new leadership next week.Kliavkoff’s last day

will be Feb. 29. The move has actually been anticipated

considering that last summer, when the Pac-12 liquified after schools bolted for other leagues because Kliavkoff was unable to negotiate a media rights contract they settled on. In less than 3 years under Kliavkoff’s instructions, USC and UCLA announced their intent to join the Huge 10; Washington and Oregon ultimately followed; Cal and Stanford are joining the ACC; and Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Arizona State chose to sign up with the Big 12. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Last August, Kliavkoff presented the presidents and chancellors with a mostly subscription-based

Apple streaming offer for the league’s tv contract that ends after this academic year. It was a prolonged procedure that frustrated lots of within the league and ultimately played a role in Colorado’s decision to join the Big 12– a move that sparked the others.Oregon State and Washington State remained in a legal battle with the 10 leaving schools over control of the conference, with Kliavkoff, the conference and the University of Washington called as defendants.Earlier today, the Pac-12’s board of directors released a declaration that it provided the 10 leaving schools notice of a proposed management shift with an”invitation to provide remark. “Kliavkoff reports to the Pac-12’s board, which has actually decreased down to the presidents of the 2 remaining schools: Washington State’s Kirk Schulz and Oregon State’s Jayathi Murthy.Washington State and Oregon State will operate as a two-team conference in football for the next two seasons, with a scheduling arrangement with the Mountain West Conference.

The league’s basketball groups and lots of Olympic sports will play in the West Coast Conference.Kliavkoff, who came to the league from MGM Resorts International, where he was president of entertainment and sports, was hired in May 2021 to change Larry Scott.