We all know the Pac-12 fumbled, bumbled and stumbled in failing to get a media rights deal done. We know this was a horrible process with a horrible, worst-case outcome, the death of the 108-year-old conference. We know this was a train wreck. Yet, each new report and revelation which drips out from a reporter makes it all seem worse. It’s very Pac-12. Everything can always get worse. Everything continues to look worse than it did a day ago or a week ago.
The latest “drip, drip, drip” revelation — Chinese water torture for anyone who loves or cares about the Pac-12 — comes from University of Arizona President Robert Robbins, who dropped a truth bomb on the Apple TV deal presented to the Pac-12 CEO Group by commissioner George Kliavkoff a few days ago.
The quote is a forceful takedown of the deal and the thought process behind it, but as one Phoenix-based media commentator noted, if the Pac-12 CEO Group knew this deal was so bad, why wasn’t it focused more on getting a better deal and on making sure the conference didn’t die?
Let’s dive into the reactions and criticisms which accompanied Robert Robbins’ takedown of George Kliavkoff in a Pac-12 which is going down in flames … and flame wars:
BOOM
FROM THE TOP ROPE
PHOENIX SPORTS PODCAST HOST AND TV ANCHOR
ROTTEN APPLE
SO TRUE
BUT THE PRESIDENTS HELPED CREATE AND PROLONG THE MESS
VERY POLITE
YOU CAN’T
SPECTACULAR
OTHERS CONTINUE TO LAUGH AT THE PAC-12
LINEAR TV WAS MISSING, THOUGH
BEGGING
THEY DID, BUT OTHERS ARE SUFFERING
JUST TREMENDOUS
OUCH
BRUTAL
IT IS STAGGERING
NO WORDS NECESSARY
IT ALL COMES POURING OUT
LOL
Story originally appeared on Trojans Wire
