Earlier this year, Bill Moos, Washington State’s athletic director, did what a lot of spurned Pac-12 Conference fans have done at one time or another during the last five years: He complained about the Pac-12 Networks.
“We were hoping for $5 million to $6 million when we were launching,” Moos said during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. “There was never a guarantee, but we were optimistic because we owned it outright.”
Almost five years after its launch, the network isn’t even close to those projections. The conference doesn’t disclose profit figures for the network, but an analysis of financial filings by the San Jose Mercury News estimated each school would get about $2.