George Kliavkoff believes the Pac-12’s 10 remaining schools are committed to the conference despite reports linking Oregon, Washington, Stanford and Cal to the Big Ten.
Kliavkoff made the sales pitch for Pac-12 schools to stay put by saying multiple times during his press conference Friday that he believes subjecting teams to unnecessary travel will be detrimental to their overall experiences as student-athletes.
“We're very focused, I think uniquely, in thinking about the effect of student-athletes when we add schools. We think about travel and about what we're going to put our student-athletes through if we expand geographically too far away.” At the same time, Kliavkoff lamented a lack of collegiality in college sports over the past month – a comment surely spurred by the Big Ten’s move to poach USC and UCLA after previously entering into an alliance with the Pac-12 and ACC.
Kliavkoff said his comment about shopping in the Big 12 was spurred by the Big 12’s efforts to recruit Pac-12 schools to join its conference.
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