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You know what’s a bigger mess than anything we have going on? The Pac-12 and Big Ten.

The Mercury News’ Jon Wilner reports that the Pac-12 presidents and chancellors are considering a major overhaul to the Pac-12 structure, including hiring a media consultant to work outside the scope of Larry Scott.

Just last week, the Pac-12 cut half of its staff, going from 190 employees to 96, while the Pac-12 enjoys really nice digs in downtown San Francisco, with total occupancy expenses for headquarters of over $8 million. Meanwhile the ACC, Big Ten, SEC, and Big 12 have a total occupancy cost of $1.6 million for all four conferences. Just imagine if they moved to the Irving of the Pac-12, Corvallis (I know this is not the Irving of the Pac-12), or wherever, and how many jobs they’d save.

If there is one person who has run a conference into the ground, it is Larry Scott.

The article notes that the consultant is being retained to assist in negotiations with the upcoming media rights for the Pac-12, which expires in 2024, but are negotiated at least a year in advance. As you may recall, the Pac-12 is the only conference that owns its own network and it has not performed at the level that it thought it would.

As far as the Big Ten, the Big Ten initially decided to postpone football games until the spring semester or later in the fall, then a Big Ten player movement started, mostly with the parents of the players, to reinstate the season. That led to a lawsuit by the player/parent movement and to a vote yesterday by the Big Ten, where universities voted 11-3 to postpone the season, with Nebraska, Ohio State, and Iowa voting to continue their season. The reason why this vote was released was because of the aforementioned lawsuit which was filed in Nebraska where the Big Ten filed affidavits affirming the vote and asked for a dismissal of the lawsuit. Good times.

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