The conference opened a production studio in San Ramon weeks before five schools departed. Now what becomes of the facility — and the multi-year lease.
Long before the Pac-12’s legal dispute, before the collapse and the Comcast scandal and even before the Los Angeles schools fled for a greener pasture, commissioner George Kliavkoff decided to shutter the conference office and relocate the Pac-12 Networks’ production studio.
Is the San Ramon production facility the former or latter? At the very least, it stands as one of the most confounding aspects of this tumultuous stretch.Few issues have frustrated the campuses over the years like the lavish spending at the conference office, and that spending starts with the office itself.
In one crucial regard, Kliavkoff had no choice. While examining the Pac-12’s contract with Kilroy Realty during his early months in office, Kliavkoff was stunned to discover the deal expired in the summer of 2023 — one yearHe wasn’t alone. Campus officials and conference staffers alike were baffled when they learned that former commissioner Larry Scott had agreed to the one-year contractual offset.“We were gobsmacked,” another said. “Nobody knew it.
Inflation and supply-chain issues pressured the transition budget. So did the cost of delivering a fully-functional production studio on an expedited timeline.
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