The Pac-12 announced a series of smart policy decisions Monday resulting from the annual spring gathering of its presidents and chancellors.
The issue of greatest significance, however, was not addressed:
A press release summarizing the developments made no mention of a potential equity in the conference’s media rights.
That matter is expected to unfold over the coming weeks and months.
As expected, the conference announced it will implement minimum standards for non-conference basketball schedules beginning in 2020-21:
“The approved new non-conference scheduling standards include the following elements:
“(i) a non-Conference five-year trailing average of opponents’ NET ranking must be 175 or less,
“(ii) no participation in road buy games,
“(iii) no regular season games against non-Division I opponents and
“(iv) no road games versus a non-conference opponent with a five-year trailing average of 200 NET.