George Kliavkoff sat in Los Angeles this morning, a city without a team in his league, and took public shots at the Big 12.
Kliavkoff, the Pac-12’s commissioner, proclaimed he wasn’t sure if he would go shopping for Big 12 schools. He said he has spent the past month defending his league from “grenades” the Big 12 is throwing its way in the dog-eat-dog world of conference realignment.
He even inferred the Pac-12 is in a better position in upcoming media rights negations than the Big 12.
The quotes came off fearful, and rightly so. The Pac-12 is running out of options since the bombshell news that USC and UCLA are leaving for the Big Ten.