Neither Oregon nor Washington felt comfortable walking away from the Pac-12 without something more concrete than a verbal agreement, a source told The Athletic. Oregon president John Karl Scholz was hesitant to leave Cal and Stanford behind.
and seek more information on Oregon and Washington specifically as potential additions. The two schools had been vetted by the Big Ten when the conference added USC and UCLA in summer 2022, but this was also the first opportunity for a major splash by Petitti, who was hired in April.
“We were the stalwarts fighting for the Pac-12 until the last ditch,” Crow told reporters on Saturday, later adding, “Arizona and Arizona State decided we wouldn’t split up under any circumstances. You can ask President Robbins about that.” Arizona requesting and receiving a Big 12 invitation are hardly the actions of a program that truly intended to sign the Pac-12’s grant of rights on Friday morning, but it all became moot once Oregon and Washington bolted minutes before the call. That effectively nullified the Pac-12’s offer from Apple and left Arizona, Arizona State and Utah hurriedly dialing the Big 12 for a lifeline.
There was one more alternate timeline that went unexplored. When Oregon and Washington committed to the Big Ten, the ACC scheduled a meeting for late Friday to discuss adding as many as all seven of the remaining Pac-12 universities, something Pac-12 leadership would have worked to facilitate, according to two conference sources familiar with the thought process. But the Big 12 struck first.
“This conference has mismanaged itself on a bunch of different levels. And when you have poor leadership, one of the outcomes is failure,” Washington State athletic director Pat Chun told reporters Wednesday. “That’s what has happened to the Pac-12.”
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