In July 2022, shortly after learning it would lose USC and UCLA, the Pac-12 authorized commissioner George Kliavkoff to start negotiating a new media rights deal.

At the time, Kliavkoff said the conference was still in an “enviable” negotiating position — good news, given that a media deal is key to the stability of the conference.

But after a year of negotiating, the conference has delivered nothing to its members but empty promises.