Jon Wilner The Pac-12 won't announce a long-awaited media rights deal before or during its preseason football media showcase Friday in Las Vegas, according to conference sources. Instead, the event will focus on the teams, players and coaches underpinning the conference's most anticipated football season in years.
However, the timing of the Big Ten's media agreement last summer has always seemed instructive: The conference unveiled its groundbreaking deal with Fox, NBC and CBS on Aug. 18 — two weeks before the start of the 2022 football season. Those details are likely to remain far from public view on Friday and, perhaps, until the deal is announced.
"There's no need for a rush," Kliavkoff said then during a college athletics forum in Las Vegas."We are the last Power Five conference with our rights available for the next eight years."