The selections and snubs may surprise you. With the SEC poised to add Texas and Oklahoma, four Los Angeles Times writers gathered to draft four, 16-team super conferences. Sports Superconference Mock Draft: Forget Texas and Oklahoma, we redraw the college football map But if you’re Kliavkoff, wouldn’t you rather strike that agreement with a more desirable conference that spreads across two time zones, sits on fertile recruiting ground and has a much better reputation for football? A scheduling partnership only helps both sides beef up their nonconference schedule and makes future media rights negotiations more attractive. Now, are there other ways for the Pac-12 and Big 12 to work together? Sure. It seems that most of the conference’s decision makers understand that. But I don’t see any options in the Big 12 footprint. If that means adding schools that actually carry their weight in that regard, great. Which of the eight left-behind Big 12 schools is even the most desirable for the Pac-12? Texas Tech? Oklahoma State? Neither of those programs would bring much new to the equation, and this conference desperately needs to find a way to close the revenue gap first. Adding middling programs indiscriminately, without heavily scrutinizing the kind of revenue they bring, is exactly the type of panic move the Pac-12 should try to avoid. What he shouldn’t do is raid the Big 12 for a collection of schools that add nothing to the Pac-12 outside of a new time zone. Please, George, do continue throughout this conference realignment saga. Kartje: Let me first just acknowledge that I fully support our new commissioner’s cryptic sub-tweeting. The quote he tweeted later - “One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say” - appears pointed. Kliavkoff is going to be taking lots of meetings in the coming weeks as the landscape shifts in the Texas-and-Oklahoma-to-SEC aftermath. My sources tell me they met for six hours, but from the Pac-12 end of things, I would not overreact. When I saw his report, it made perfect sense that the leak revealing the meeting between Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff was from the Big 12, which desperately needs to show the remaining eight schools that there could be some hope of salvaging the league. Max Olson, a national college football reporter with the Athletic, has his reporting roots in Big 12 country. McCollough: The first thing we should do before going down the rabbit hole of analyzing what a Pac-12/Big 12 collaboration could look like is understand where this news came from. With a history of innovation and elite problem-solving skills, commissioner George Kliavkoff says it will be fun helping the Pac-12 navigate massive changes. Sports Why George Kliavkoff could give the Pac-12 an edge in conference realignment
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