DALLAS — The fact that Big 12 and Pac-12 officials conducted their supposed merger talks on Zoom calls tells you just how disingenuous the entire exercise was. Zoom is for booster boards and fantasy football drafts, not billion dollar, generational transactions. Who could keep a straight face pretending to be serious? Brett Yormark, the new Big 12 boss, probably never came out from behind his avatar.
Now that the preliminary niceties are out of the way, a game of chicken ensues.
Can George Kliavkoff really get Oregon/Washington to sign a long-term grant of rights?
