Larry Scott Is Your Pac-12 Commissioner Through 2016
by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 6, 2012 6:17 PM PST
in Pac-12 General
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PrintHere's how I imagine this conversation went.
"Hey guys, my contract is up."
"Oh, what, already?"
"Yeah, I've been hearing from all these great places."
"Really now. You say so?
"Indeed, they appreciate the job I'm doing. MLB, the FCC, Starfleet Command. They really think I could do good things if I expand my horizons."
"I think we can make a good arrangement here."
Larry Scott has taken the Pac-12 from the 19th century to the 21st in his two-and-a-half year stead. Scott expanded the conference from ten to twelve teams, created the inaugural conference championship game, created a landmark TV rights deal that will ensure profitability for the teams involved, and will have their own network (both on TV and online) to market and publicize the conference.
And there's still so much more to do. The Pac-12 Network still needs help being distributed on all platforms, has to hire all its new members and find programming to fill its 24 hour coverage. There's a Pac-12 basketball tournament that has yet to be reorganized. There's the road to Asia. So much more for Scott to do, and now he has so much time to do with it.
Now that he's anchored the conference of champions from the past to the present, how long will it take to bring them to the future?
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It's nice that the PAC 12 games are going to be televised (I think.) Are many of those games going to be in HD?
OR, like I predict, that Comcast will still hold the smaller companies hostage and Comcast will broadcast in HD but anything other than ABC/ESPN will not. Think that I am joking? Better check out the fine print. Comcast only wants the channels next to them on the program guide and that’s all they’ll ever want.
"What you are entrusted to do as a coach is to create an environment where your players have a chance to be successful." CHIP KELLY
I have read extensively on this...
but by no means am I an expert (just a fan). I believe that it will all be in HD and on a lot more platforms than currently announced. As is the usual fair nowadays, media-outlet negotiations are done until the very last minute; note, the ads you routinely see letting you know your channel will no longer be shown on this media-outlet or that one (remember when Versus was not on DirecTv for several months – that’s the extreme case).
Besides, it won’t matter if you have broadband internet. The Pac-12 Network will be available in digital format. You will be able to follow your team(s) from your computer, iphone, ipad, what-have-you.
It’s going to be awesome.
