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To anyone who is interested because way back during the season Kliavkoff said that he expected a deal to be done shortly after the season was over and it's obviously taken longer. my guess is the he and his team did an analysis of value adds by bringing different teams into the PAC12, and once that was determined he had to go out and figure out which teams were prospective members with legitimate interests in joining the PAC12. I'm sure he started with the teams that had the most media value. Will we just add 2 teams? How about 4 or 6? Will every team get the same revenue or will it be allocated based on media value. Teams like UNLV, SMU and Fresno state might make more in the PAC12 with a lesser share of revenue than they are currently pulling in. All this has yet to be announced. (As an example, Fresno State Football pulled in $13.361m from all sources last year. I couldn't get a media number. UNlV pulled in $12.223m from all sources. SMU made $21.2m from all sources. SDSU made $13.577 from all sources and ended up losing $3.323m. All of these teams would get bumps from joining a PAC12 collective even if they did not make as much as teams like UW, UO, CAL ad the rest of the staples of the PAC12 currently make).

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