Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
The conference should consider a scheduling partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities in which its players attend classes on the HBCU campuses.
It's a zero-sum game for the Pac-12: ESPN and Fox are under contract to broadcast 44 games. The fewer they air in September, the more they have to air when...