Neither would be offered full revenue shares, at least initially, according to sources. SMU and San Diego State have been obvious candidates all along. (USC and UCLA will not participate in expansion proceedings during their final 18 months in the conference.) Under Pac-12 bylaws, expansion requires a three-fourths vote of the presidents, meaning eight of the 10 schools would have to approve any new members. Kliavkoff has said that process would come first, followed by the grant-of-rights piece and then expansion.īut the three tracks were expected to unfold concurrently, sources said, with the conference informing its media partners of expansion plans during contract negotiations and prior to issuing formal invitations. The Pac-12 has been negotiating a new media agreement since July. It is not known if other schools were discussed last week during the Pac-12 presidents’ quarterly meeting, held at Arizona State.Įxpansion is part of a complicated three-step process in which the Pac-12 must negotiate a new media rights contract with network partners the schools must agree to sign their media rights over to the conference and invitations to new members must be extended on a formal basis.
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