{"id":453844,"date":"2023-08-04T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453844"},"modified":"2023-08-04T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:45:53","slug":"arizona-close-to-joining-big-12","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arizona-close-to-joining-big-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona close to joining Big 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona is very close to becoming part of the Big 12, with the agreement expected to happen in the upcoming weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Arizona has been approved to join the Big 12 Conference, and the Arizona board of regents is meeting right now to decide whether to approve the move<\/p>\n<p>The Big 12\u2019s cleared the way for the Wildcats to join and maybe end the Pac-12<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a2h2JtJwUE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/a2h2JtJwUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OutKick (@Outkick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Outkick\/status\/1687288737653522432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The school is polishing the final details. Big Twelve presidents and CEOs met today to vote on agreeing with the move, which indicates that things are very serious.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona would be the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Pac-12 organization to share its departure for the Big Twelve in the past 7 days, as Colorado did a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>When things become official, Pac-12 will remain with 8 schools. Still, even worst news for them is that Big 10 commissioner Tony Petitti is looking to lure Pac-12 organizations Oregon and Washington to the league.<\/p>\n<p>The transition of Arizona will leave Pac-12 in a very bad position as the league inked an exclusive deal with Apple. Still, both parties were unaware of Arizona\u2019s intentions during the time of the streaming deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona is very close to becoming part of the Big 12, with the agreement expected to happen in the upcoming weeks. Arizona has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":453845,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20762,18897],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[20765,20764,18898],"acf":{"announce":"They are in the final steps to do it.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453844"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453844"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}