Michael Lev column: Colorado’s move to the Big 12 is the latest sign that the Pac-12 is sinking fast; Arizona should join CU in jumping ship to the Big 12.
On June 30, 2022, the departures of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten became official. And the future of the league they’re leaving behind — the same one University of Arizona sports became synonymous with beginning in 1978 — became precarious.
Yormark wisely recognizes that college sports is in a go-big-or-go-home phase. The only chance to compete for dollars and eyeballs with the ever-expanding Big Ten and SEC is to join forces and form some version of a rival “super conference.” The Pac-12 and Big 12 could have done that — a merger that would have required foresight and vision, two elements lacking in the reactive, rudderless so-called Conference of Champions — and maybe that’s more or less where we end up.
UA president Robert C. Robbins repeatedly has said that Arizona will wait to see the media-rights parameters before making any decisions about the school’s future. To which I say: What are you waiting for?Robbins is also in charge of a university with an appealing athletic program. Yormark purportedly is a big basketball advocate. Aside from UCLA, Arizona, even 25 years removed from its NCAA title, has the biggest men’s basketball brand on the West Coast.
Would the Big 16 be on par with the Big Ten and SEC? No. But third place is probably the best-case scenario. As Robbins said regarding the would-be media deal, “If we win a bronze medal, I think we’d all declare victory.”
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