Report: Colorado has an eye on the Big 12
Conference Free Agency talks reignite in a big way
At Pac 12 media day, commissioner George Kliavkoff assumed a united front as he took the stage in Las Vegas, stating that a media deal was imminent and things were looking fine. Colorado doesn’t seem to be bought into that line of thought, as Pete Thamel of ESPN and Brett McMurphy of Action Network are reporting that Colorado has scheduled another board of regents meeting with talks about moving to the Big 12. Dennis Dodd of CBS has joined in on the fray, and with all of the titans of the CFB writers reporting this you know there’s a purpose and where there’s smoke there’s fire.
McMurphy notes that the Buffs haven’t officially applied for membership for the conference, but seeing how far this has come, it’s not hard to realize that this is a serious look. Thamel further reported that there is a Big 12 presidents meeting tonight regarding expansion, as it seems a lot of things are coming together in quick fashion.
Thamel talked with Colorado AD Rick George this week in Indianapolis and got this response on a move out of the Pac 12: “We are where we are. We've just got to figure it out."
Unquestionably this will make Pac 12 members feel uneasy as everything now turns into flux. To add kerosene on this fire, Jason Scheer of Wildcat Authority speculates that someone outside of the four corners is also looking at the Big 12. Oh boy.
None of this is earth-shattering, but it basically puts forth the idea that there's a needle pushing in on the Pac-12's balloon.
The Pac-12 has been dead man walking since June 30, 2022.
This is the moment the B1G was waiting for. They now can get UO/UW/Cal/Stanford for a below market deal. Probably very close to the money those schools would have got with whatever the PAC # was.