The Pac-12 bought itself some time by shifting fall sports to conference-only schedules, thereby delaying the start of the season from late August to late September or maybe even October.
But eventually it could have to make some tougher decisions, like pushing fall sports to the spring.
The conference isn’t there yet, but it’s getting close.
“We really are,” Arizona Wildcats athletic director Dave Heeke said in an interview on Eye on the Ball. “I‘m optimistic. I am bullish. We want this to happen in the fall. We have not entertained a spring schedule, really.