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Considering we have less than 8 months until the END of the 2023-24 football season, and zero news coming out of the Kliavkoff camp, I see every reason to at least be pessimistic about the outcome. There hasn't been a time in recent memory where a conference has taken a media rights deal down this close to the wire. This feels like the last 5 minute of the movie Draft Day. Hopefully GK has some Kevin Costner in him...

Miami...

How do I feel? I feel like this is college basketball anymore. There is about as much allegiance to a team as it takes for a guy to build draft stock/NIL money/court minutes. Dana Altman needs to go back to recruiting coachable talent rather than chasing high school star ratings. There is absolutely a rising correlation of star ranking to the likelihood a guy transfers; or is a one-and-done to the NBA. Unfortunately this has become the expectation rather than exception in today's college basketball. Still, I agree that this is a low-brow move.

Hell, Mac Court games often felt like Big 10 games. That places was loud and shaking (sometimes unsafely so) nearly every game!

Pac-12 considering Apple TV+ for football broadcast rights: Report WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff could present a potential deal to member schools in the near future, according to a report. It now looks like even Amazon Prime has gotten cold, or at least lukewarm, feet in the saga of the PAC 12 media rights deal. Could a Power 5 conference truly survive by going all in on a streaming platform?

If our media deal comes in at the $30 million range per school I am confident the 4 corner schools bolt. That would likely mean ESPN forced the conference to accept a relatively lowball offer coupled with whatever Amazon brings to the table. There isn't a scenario, in my opinion, where we go over $35 mil per school. We lost out on a ton of credibility when we passed on TCU, Texas, and Oklahoma. Our bargaining position is more or less doing whatever we can to stave off being poached. A "Coastal Conference" alignment with the ACC would give us the standing of highest academic prowess of any conference not named the Ivy League. It would give us east coast time slots for games and force people to watch us. If there is a lifeline floating around I believe that is the only and most lucrative option.

They're probably also hoping the Pac 12 goes the way of the dinosaur so they can snag Washington and Oregon as new members for a bargain price.

I don't envy the position Kliavkoff was put in having to take over after the Larry Scott debacle. But even a guy of his experience/expertise seems to be struggling mightily to get this ship righted. The networks want two Power 5 conferences to drop off and they don't care which ones go. The fact that the Big 12 raced ahead to get their deal done shows that they can see the writing on the wall. All conferences not named Big Ten or SEC are in self preservation mode, and the Pac 12 just can't seem to get enough momentum going to move the needle on a favorable deal. It feels like nearly all of our leveraging ability as a conference is gone. The Big 12 and Big Ten no longer have to hurry. They can sit back and wait for teams to jump ship and run to them. Predatory conferences can offer Pac 12 schools less money than their respective media deals but more than whatever Pac 12 deal materializes. In survival mode, who is going to turn that down? If the Big Ten offers Oregon/Washington a deal in the $40 million range they are gone and soon after the Pac 12.

https://www.si.com/college/usc/football/big-12-totally-out-maneuvered-pac-12-by-getting-early-media-right-deal-done It is sure looking like the Big 12 is trying to get out ahead of the Pac 12 before attempting to poach some schools. Another report has CBS/Turner backing out of Pac 12 negotiations today as well. I sure hope we aren't watching the demise of our conference play out in real time.

Bye! You want to bring that kind of baggage to our school? Nah! We're loaded at WR anyway and now better off by trimming some fat!

Nix also got hurt going head first and between the tackles.

I wonder where viewership is with a team like Texas Tech added to the mix as well? Would give a West Texas footprint and a decent in-state conference rivalry matchup. We don't need an even number of teams. The PAC no longer has divisions. We just need the right mix of viewership and competition.

Lanning should be on a plane to Salt Lake City as soon as yesterday. Jim Harding (offensive line coach at Utah) has the line playing as a top unit in the country, and my guess is he would be in for a substantial pay bump to bring his services to Eugene.

BREAKING: Oregon’s Adrian Klemm leaves Ducks to take coaching job with New England Patriots SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Per a report from ESPN's Pete Thamel, Adrian Klemm is leaving Oregon to take a new coaching job with the New England Patriots.

The donors in Miami have to be looking at this like the lit fuse on a firework that just fell sideways pointing towards the rest of them. While the fire from the fuse is small, it is very visible and there is likely little anybody can do to stop it from eventually blowing up in their faces.

I have witnessed some of the most entertaining and egregious Duck football "news" of all time in a bar. A guy told me once he was the uncle of Tyler Shough and that Mario Cristobal personally told him he was the second coming of Mariota. A girl told me she loved being in classes at the U of O with Justin Herbert in 2021. I asked if she meant 2019 and she said "No I only was enrolled for 2 months but I had classes with him in '21".

Not sold on Rashada at all. His loyalty holds about as much weight as my keyboard. Wouldn't at all be surprised if he sits a year, watches the team not make bowl eligibility, then splits for greener (money reference) pastures.

First the "men" of Troy whimpered about their 2023 schedule. Now the boys are crying about losing a recruit out of their backyard. I guess not every skilled kid from Cali wants to be fed to the meat grinder of Big 10 talent and Big 10 weather in 2024!

My hope is that Gattis takes a head coaching job in the ACC a few years down the road. Just in time to deliver the loss that puts Cristobal on unemployment!

Chargers' hefty price tag for Justin Herbert extension revealed BOLTBEAT.COM The LA Chargers have some business to take care of with Justin Herbert and just received the bill. 10 years $510 million! Justin Herbert is looking like he's headed towards the largest football contract ever conceived. Perks of moving the team to Los Angeles I guess. But if you are Herbert do you really want to hitch your wagon to the Chargers for the next decade? What are your thought?

I mean come on, our boys can't be out there twisting ankles! - Dennis Reynolds

These guys are absolutely in his league and will most likely beat him and USC this year. And guess what? We don't even have to wait for the Pac 12 Championship game to see it. All 3 QBs play USC in the regular season. 2023 will definitely not be kind to USC's win total

Everything I'm reading sounds like the Patriots are going all out for Bill O'Brien. He and Belichick are close and it sounds like the interest is mutual. I don't mean this to sound insensitive but the Rooney Rule applies to offensive coordinators as well as head coaching searches.

Gebbia has said multiple times he wants to coach. This would be a way to get his foot in the door for a Grad Assistant position when he exhausts his eligibility. The guy will have been around college football for 7 years by the time he is done playing. He's not afraid of losing the battle to be a starter, he's more concerned with seeing how the big boys play. He'll be coaching QBs or calling plays by the end of the decade.

Texas A&M is probably driving a bank truck to his house as we speak. No amount of money is off the table in East Texas. Those boys would buy Christiano Ronaldo if they thought they could kick 20 field goals a game and win.