Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff is expected to formally express its intentions regarding expansion by the end of the week.
“We’ll announce a decision on whether or not we’re going to be looking at expansion before the end of this week,” Kliavkoff told ESPN’s Heather Dinich.
“That decision has been run on a parallel path to the conversations with [Big Ten commissioner] Kevin [Warren] and [ACC commissioner] Jim [Phillips] and the Big Ten and the ACC.”
Klivakoff’s statements come shortly after the Pac-12 announced that it was forming a partnership with the ACC and Big Ten. If the conference expresses interest in adding more schools, new members will likely come from the Big 12 or the AAC. However, it is unclear if the conference’s current members would be interested in adding schools from the Central Time Zone. Moreover, Klivakoff recently told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he was “really, really happy with the 12 that we have in the league” now.
“The opportunity to revisit [expansion] following Texas and Oklahoma has certainly presented itself,” he countered.
“I am not actively poaching any school or convincing anyone to leave their existing conference, but I wouldn’t be doing my job if I wasn’t listening to schools that wanted to go in the Pac-12, and we’ve had a lot of them reach out. Probably all of the ones you would expect and several you’d be surprised by.”
