Pac-12 schools still waiting on anticipated TV deal

• Pete Thamel, ESPNJun 7, 2023, 06:36 PM ET

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Pac-12 schools are still playing the waiting game for a brand-new television contract.Arizona president

Bobby Robbins on Wednesday stated he doesn’t anticipate any decisions worrying conference adjustment to be made until Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff brings difficult numbers to university presidents.Robbins said he anticipates the numbers tied to the conference’s upcoming

television offer to show up” soon “as the league goes into the last year of its existing offer. “Each of us will make our own independent analysis,” Robbins stated at the Future

of College Sports Summit hosted by the University of Arizona.”My forecast is that we’re all going to stay together as a Pac-12. There’s 10 of us right now. I’m confident that the offer is going to be good enough to keep us together.”Editor’s Picks 2 Related Robbins stated he’s not disappointed that there hasn’t been financial clearness on what the television offer

might look

like. He joked that he’s not nervous, based on his profession as a surgeon.”I’m not distressed about this,”Robbins said. “I know it is essential. I have full confidence we’re going to get where we need to be. “He said he expects schools to make choices on the grant of rights or whether to remain in the Pac-12 in a “quick “amount of time after monetary realities become clear.Robbins said he hasn’t recently been in touch with Huge 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, but he “continues to speak with everyone”in the adjustment space.He did supply some clearness on any potential move, noting Arizona has the liberty to make a conference move agnostic of what in-state partner Arizona State chooses. He cast that idea of a split as

not likely, nevertheless, considering his relationship with Arizona State president Michael Crow.”We don’t need to do the same thing,” Robbins said.”However President Crow and I are really, extremely tight. I think it ‘d be unlikely that we ‘d be split up.” Robbins, who has been the president at Arizona because 2017, has been openly positive in the future of the Pac-12. In public declarations in March, Robbins stated he anticipated the brand-new Pac-12 offer to be consummated in a couple of weeks. He repeated that the truth is that the conference might still end up ahead of offers by the Big 12 and ACC.”We’re not going to get a Big Ten deal or an SEC offer,” Robbins said.”… If we win a bronze medal, I think we’ll all declare triumph and move on.”The uncertainty hovering over the Pac-12 has been

magnified by the Huge 12’s navigating to sign a six-year,$2.2 billion dollar television handle ESPN and Fox that goes through 2031. The Big 12 wasn’t in line for a deal, but the league opened up early settlements and got an offer done faster than the Pac-12, despite the Pac-12’s existing deal ending a year earlier.That has actually left speculation about the future of the Pac-12, as both the desirable direct television windows and readily available money for standard media outlets are viewed to have decreased considerably for the conference.The flirtations of Colorado with the Big 12– with authorities from each side meeting in person, sources informed ESPN– have likewise put Arizona more in focus. The Buffalos remain the Pac-12’s greatest prospective flight threat, and if they leap, Arizona would emerge as a logical partner both since of geography and the Wildcats ‘powerhouse basketball program.But all of that, Robbins said, remains speculative up until Pac-12 presidents see difficult numbers from Kliavkoff. “Right now, I believe all 10 of us are entirely focused on the offer, “Robbins said.”When we have that, we have degrees of liberty to make educated choices.”