PAC-12

6/20/2010: The PAC-n expansion is way outside my area of expertise. You’d need a PhD in economics to understand if there’s even a pure-strategy Bayesian Nash equilibrium to this game. Rob Moseley has a good piece in today’s RG. Maybe it’s sour grapes, but the quotes from former UO AD Mike Bellotti on adding Utah and Colorado are pretty negative. They will get a slightly larger TV share, but split it more ways, and there are scheduling pluses and minuses. It looks like Larry Scott rolled the dice on a PAC-16 and lost, at least for now. So it’s still not clear how athletics is going to make the vig for the UO Arena bonds. To say nothing of the nut. One odd bit of fallout: Pat Kilkenny lent Scott his jet for the negotiations, then realized the press was tracking it, so he had it removed from the FAA’s public database.