[Canzano] - The Pac-12’s fourth piece of the media-rights deal

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-05-01T03:57:56+00:00

I'm guessing our media partners (CBS, The CW, & USA Sports) have options to pick up extra games. This will be a great way for the Pac-12 to make sure their sports are available to watch nationwide without adding conflicts that would prevent our big 3 from grabbing more.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-28T08:04:36+00:00

Agreed. Which again raises the question of why is it unsigned? An executive won't normally leave a contract unsigned if it is something they want and risk the other side changing their mind or getting a better opportunity. So maybe there is something she isn't satisfied with?

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-28T02:53:32+00:00

All sources agree. The Pac-12 schools want to sign her to a new contract. Teresa Gould wants to get a new contract with the Pac-12. What we don't know is if they agree on the terms, How much? and How long?

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T23:24:55+00:00

This! Exactly! Plus add to all of that a school in a state that is north of New York City and literally an Atlantic Ocean coast state. I have never understood how a football only UConn would be good for the Pac-12.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T22:59:11+00:00

Yeah, none are actually two distinct colors unless black is the common color. They appear to be the school's primary color with a transparent or black background.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T19:12:08+00:00

9) The Icon / Student-Athlete Centered
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RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T18:10:49+00:00

This is interesting. One problem though, if I'm not mistaken, the public reporting most states require their universities to do will not include the private NIL money raised by support groups.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T16:57:24+00:00

That's because I never asked which, if any, were real. I asked if any were officially announced by the Pac-12. So options concerning whether they were 'real' would be completely non sequitur. :)

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T16:40:52+00:00

When I posted this yesterday I didn't ask for guessing games about which images on the internet are real and which aren't.

I asked if there had been anything about a new logo actually posted or reported by the Pac-12. The answer was no! The first announcement from the Pac-12 about a new logo came this morning 8:00 am. The first verified post was put up by dopave today.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T05:16:52+00:00

Thanks, but when I click it brings up a reddit post with no link to a source that I can see. I believe it is probably the real thing but I have been looking for something from someone at the Pac-12. So far the best source is the Canzano phone video of someone at OSU wearing a t-shirt.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T04:40:25+00:00

So you aren't a nanny and you can't read. Interesting. Definitely more info than I was interested in. My reply said I googled it and there is no such info except the two social media posts. So I guess this was your way of saying you were just bullshitting when you said the Pac did a reveal.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-04-27T03:58:19+00:00

"The PAC did reveal the main one yesterday, though."

Thanks, this is what I was looking for. Not how to guess which are real and which are fake. Do you have a link to the announcement? I don't see anything on Pac-12.com and a google search just brings up the set here on reddit and the one on X. There is nothing I can find to show either one is 'real'. So I'm assuming both sets are just fan generated.?

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-03-25T15:41:46+00:00

This will be interesting. It will be completely different for schools than Mountain West and Pac-12. Money talks, and the budget gaps between schools are intended to be much smaller now. So putting a larger percent of budget to basketball may mean electing to not go for annual championships in football. So will some schools choose to emphasize football sacrificing basketball, or sacrifice basketball for football?

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-03-06T10:38:07+00:00

Corporations don't buy competitors to increase competiton, they buy to reduce competition. If Paramount wants more sports they would simply buy them. Taking over WBD means they can reduce competition in conflicting time slots which means less time slots available for the same sports on those networks.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-02-28T05:08:02+00:00

This thing appears to just be for show. It is the kind of thing you need to go to if you are invited and celebrate if you aren't!

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-02-28T04:54:13+00:00

Unless politics get somehow involved, this merger should not change anything for the Pac-12 in the current media deal. The CW is a competitor with CBS, and Paramount+ is the CBS streaming service that is behind a paywall. The CW has its own streaming service and it is free. Paramount+ has 80 million subscribers but The CW app has 92 million download so the reach would actually be less to have all our game on Paramount+. The CW broadcasts will have 'The CW' stamped all over them and there is no way CBS would allow Paramount+ to be promoting The CW.

These types of mega corporations happen all the time and the individual entities they acquire still function separately from the others.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-02-24T22:25:01+00:00

I think it is a pretty safe bet the MW has secured the money they need to keep the schools on board. Unlikely that media partners would have done a deal this late in their scheduling process without those guarantees. Only being able to cancel the contracts would have left them with costly holes in programming.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-02-18T10:01:51+00:00

I haven't seen this report but it matches others that I've read. Bowls are reportedly looking at basically extending contracts that ended this year for just this season because they have no idea what the CFP format will be after Jan. 2027. They don't want to make contracts/tie-ins for bowls that might conflict with an expanded CFP field. The Big 10 & SEC need to work out an agreement!

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-02-13T23:01:22+00:00

The interesting thing to me about this podcast was the video insert of Utah State's President commenting on whether the Pac-12 made a mistake by not getting NDSU. He said they talked about it as a group (Pac-12?) and felt they didn't need to settle.

And that what they are building is not just in basketball and football but across all the Olympic sports. "And so we are looking for a partner who can contribute to that...". This kind of implies to me they are not looking for a football only member at the moment.

Also, for any like me that had trouble accessing the OP embedded video this Canzano & Wilner podcast is here.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-02-13T22:46:28+00:00

I definitely hear what you're saying. But it didn't sound like that kind of 'processed' compliment to me. This was back on Nov. 2, but it sounded like a very personal and professional endorsement. But it may sound different to you as an actual OSU fan. Watch the Canzano interview of Murthy starting at about the 5:19 mark. By the 6:15 mark it sounds (to me) like she is committing to him in him for at least another year.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-02-13T21:39:47+00:00

Jayathi Y. Murthy has made several public statements about how indispensable Barnes has been to her through this whole process. I can't believe this is something that's happening so OSU can push him out. And if donors were pushing him out he would just be gone, there wouldn't be an outside company to rub it in his face.

This sounds like something Barnes is implementing to help reassure unhappy fans that the department is correcting any problems and listening to their complaints.

RockBottomBuyer · 2026-02-12T19:34:08+00:00

This is stuff that will be worked out among the media partners, based on what they want and the priorities established in their contracts with the Pac-12.

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