How the Pac 12 Could Come Back Thanks to Florida State

How the Pac 12 Could Come Back Thanks to Florida State John Kurtz

No way that the UC Berkeley Bears will walk away from $7 million cash from the acc deal. Mo money, mo money, mo money.

Gobears49 said:

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How the Pac 12 Could Come Back Thanks to Florida State John Kurtz

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Youtube link

which rehashes this Wilner article

That was a fun article to read. I liked how he wove in all types of odd things (the Saudis), since it would take a very strange mishmash of events for the conference to be reconstructed.

Is Whitt no longer Utah head coach, or did Wilner not bother to review his article before he hit the send the button? He is not alone if he did, looking in the mirror.

Substantively, there are many, many scenarios that could happen with college sports, including wild card variables such as litigation, legislation, and the like. Wilner is just pre-supposing how the variables play out and setting up his scenario. It is an interesting read. I wonder where Wilner heads once the Pac officially becomes the Pac 2? Wilner, with Canzanno, were the only two guys the covered the Pac in detail. Does Wilenr follow the Bay Area schools to the ACC, does he become a national writer, or ???

One fly in the ointment with Jon's scenario is (absent Federal legislation) that States get to decide who is a state employee and whether they have collective bargaining rights, and I can tell you the answer to that decision is likely to vary say between states like California and states like Florida.

Golf seems to be moving to a private equity play, and I would not be surprised if Wilner's suggestion that college football will be privately funded to avoid Title 9, if legal, is coming unless Title 9 is reformed to reflect market forces. I could also see private equity for men's basketball, and maybe even women's basketball, for different reasons. Rather to avoid the NCAA altogether, and to allow for a union contract to impose guardrails and avoid state laws restricting public employee unions.

All this means the deemphasis in the student part of student-athlete. If that occurs, it also seems like regional conferences for non-revenue sports makes perfect sense, and the team would have to be funded by donors, student fees (which may not work well at schools like Cal) and other means.

The only thing that seems clear at this juncture is major changes are coming.

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I wonder where Wilner heads once the Pac officially becomes the Pac 2? Wilner, with Canzanno, were the only two guys the covered the Pac in detail. Does Wilenr follow the Bay Area schools to the ACC, does he become a national writer, or ???

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FWIW, Wilner's column is syndicated in several papers, and it's likely he is a contractor and not a salaried employee at the Mercury News. He is probably aiming his writing to the places his column is syndicated, and will write about the Big 12 and Big Ten far more than the ACC. Which is all good, because he dislikes Cal and is contemptuous whenever he does mention the Bears.

Virginia sportswriter David Teel has been covering the ACC for a long time, that's a good place to start for ACC reporting.

Canzano already was terminated and is independent now. Same with the old Athletic reporter for the Washington Huskies, who also was let go. Very few sports reporters left. Which means that no one is actually sports writing - they are competing for clicks and subscriptions. At least Canzano calls people and talks to them, and actually quotes them. Wilner just speculates.