Report: Pac-12 meeting ends with no new TV deal, plans for follow up soon

The Pac-12 presidents and ADs met and came away with no new television deal, according to Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger.

Amid Colorado’s departure to the Big 12 and Arizona’s reported Board of Regents meeting, the conference did not come together on a long awaited media deal. Commissioner George Kliavkoff reportedly planned a follow up meeting to Tuesday’s conference.

But as now, nothing is official regarding the Pac-12’s deal with television networks.

“Pac-12 presidents & ADs, as expected, met this morning & were presented with details of a TV deal, sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports,” Dellenger wrote on Twitter. “Executives left the hour-long meeting with no agreement but with the expectation of eventually concluding a deal. Another meeting is planned soon.”

Dellenger followed up with an update on Arizona.

“The Arizona Board of Regents, which oversees both Arizona & Arizona State, are meeting today,” Dellenger wrote. “While most do not expect a vote or decision at that meeting, multiple sources tell Yahoo Sports to expect the topic of the TV deal to be discussed.”

The Wildcats have been one of the main teams rumored to also be leaving the Pac-12 Conference since Colorado voted to leave the conference after this season, and many believe this to be a meeting to discuss some sort of vote about Arizona’s future, one way or another.

On3’s Eric Prisbell has reported the Wildcats as a prime target for the Big 12, who were looking to quickly add a 14th school after Colorado. The 14th team would be expected to join the conference at the same time as the Buffaloes.

“[Fourteen] has been identified as the ‘right’ number,” one of Prisbell’s sources said Friday. “But it’s not a hard stop if going bigger made sense.”

Prisbell also believes Arizona fits in nicely with Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark’s expectation to become one of the strongest basketball conferences in the country, having already brought in Houston to the conference this season.

But as far as the Pac-12 is concerned, Staples spoke with John Canzano about the Pac-12’s latest moves, asking him if it’s time for the Pac-12’s remaining top teams like Utah, Oregon, and Washington to start considering leaving the conference as well.

“I think they needed to listen early, and I think they did some of that,” Canzano said. “But I think Oregon in particular looked at the Big Ten first and also maybe the SEC and they didn’t get a lot of warmth in return for those.

“Because I think Oregon and their brand, they see themselves as kind of above the Big 12 Conference and a tent pole in the Pac-12. They also value the access to the playoff, so as long as the Pac-12 has access to that playoff I do think there’s a motivation for Oregon to stay put.”