Jon Wilner (well-respected PAC-12 beat writer)
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9:10 p.m. update: Been on the phone for last 30 minutes. Here’s why league did not expand, in a nutshell:
It determined that a 14-school conference was awkward and it would not bow to Texas’ revenue demands.
According to a source, Larry Scott walked away from weekend meeting with Texas knowing the Longhorn Network and the Pac-12 revenue model could not work together.
It was zero or four and the four was too problematic — no interest in meeting UT’s revenue demands — so it’s at zero, which is where the CEOs wanted to be all along.
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