As Utah heads to the Big 12, president Taylor Randall explains the decision to leave the Pac-12: 'Each university was plugging in the numbers.'
U. President Taylor Randall and AD Mark Harlan said it was “a new type of [way to view] college sports.”
“It was a new type of [way to view] college sports,” Randall said of the product. “So that was both intriguing and made us all kind of pause and say, ‘We’ve got to analyze this a little further, right?’ It wasn’t like saying, ‘Hey, we’re gonna say yes to a contract that we’ve done for years and years.’
In the end, the risk outweighed the reward for too many key members of the conference. After hearing the pitch, Oregon and Washington announced they would join the Big Ten Conference. Utah would soon after join Arizona, Arizona State and Colorado in seeking a new home with the Big 12. “Our commissioner did everything he could to bring options to us in a pretty difficult media market right now if you’ve been following what’s going on with Disney and the like,” Randall said. “So I appreciated his efforts. And what he brought to us was a creative solution. And again, as we mentioned, it’s unfortunate we couldn’t get them on over the finish line.”
But while Utah will leave for the Big 12 next year , the Utes made it clear they didn’t want to leave the Pac-12 if they had a choice. Randall and Harlan declined to get into specifics about when they decided to make the move. They deflected when asked about Oregon and Washington officials not showing up Friday morning on a call to vote for the new media deal.
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