Pac-12 media strategy: Moving on from DirecTV, passing on ESPN’s offer and making a “different bet”

Even all these years later — seven, to be exact — the question comes at Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott as pointedly and relentlessly as if it had been beamed down from above.
Anything new with DirecTV?
It’s about time we put the kibosh on that one, folks.
Not only is nothing new, there won’t be anything new anytime soon, if ever.
Based on comments by Scott and Pac-12 Networks president Mark Shuken, the conference no longer views a distribution deal with the satellite pro