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Pac-12 journalist highlights one of the media’s big errors in realignment reporting

Matt Zemek
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Oregon-based Pac-12 reporter John Canzano wanted to double-check and make absolutely sure his many sources were all in alignment on one particular point. Canzano, who is also a columnist and radio host, drilled deep on one piece of college sports realignment reporting.

He wrote the following at his Substack:

There were erroneous reports that originated from media members, particularly in Arizona, about the conference’s four corners schools meeting with the Big 12 Conference. I’ve talked with high-level sources at all four of those institutions (Utah, Arizona, ASU and Colorado). No meetings were even scheduled. It was all smoke and no fire. One of the ADs from those universities told me at the time, “No meeting with Big 12 and George (Kliavkoff) is kicking ass.”

Those who reported the meetings as fact, whiffed. They’re spitballing and guessing or just listening to the wrong people. As I wrote in a column on Wednesday, there is (and always has been) only one threat to the Pac-12 — the Big Ten. It remains the lone threat.

Big 12 fans will continue to emphasize how much better their conference is than the Pac-12. They might be right. They might be wrong. The main point to emphasize, though, is that the Four Corners Quartet was not as interested in the Big 12 as a lot of reporting made it seem.

This sparked a noticeable discussion on Twitter:

We will see where it all leads, if anywhere.

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Story originally appeared on Trojans Wire