Canzano: Behind the scenes at Pac-12 meetings
Exclusive: Jayathi Murthy and Teresa Gould sound off.
We had lights, cameras, and sound equipment. But I hadn’t thought to bring an extension power cord. So on Monday afternoon, we scrambled about the “Welcome Center” at Reser Stadium, trying to borrow one.
“Any chance you have a power cord?” I asked a front-desk staffer.
“No,” she said, “but we do have a fossilized woolly mammoth bone.”
Oregon State President Jayathi Murthy and Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould agreed to an exclusive 2-on-1 sitdown-style interview with me. The Pac-12 spring meetings are this week on campus in Corvallis.
The rebuilt conference is preparing for the official launch on July 1, and the athletic directors and presidents are in town.
Is there another expansion move coming for the Pac-12? The league’s fourth — and final — media-rights piece? Will that be a direct-to-consumer streaming endeavor? And how vital is making the College Football Playoff to the new Pac-12 in season one?