Quick Pac-12 facts courtesy of Larry Scott

The Pac-12’s annual Media Days meetings began as they always do, with a 20-minute speech from commissioner Larry Scott. Like always, the speech was mostly a series of facts mean to illustrate that the conference is happy and healthy. Basically that it carries all the hallmarks of a Mike Leach player, really.

While the room full of reporters mostly had glazed eyes during this address, there were a few notes I thought worth passing on:

• Here’s a shock: Neither side has budged in the impasse between the Pac-12 Networks and DirecTV. So that’s five years of no football for DirecTV subscribers.
• The Pac-12 is going to start live-streaming Olympic sports on Twitter. It’s also going to provide content through Facebook and YouTube.
• The conference is going to start embracing E-sports, which is the currently preferred term for video games.
• The Pac-12 Networks will reach an extra half million fans in Southern California by broadcasting through Frontier, which is formerly Verizon FIOS.
• The Pac-12 set records last year in bowl teams (10) and NCAA men’s tournament teams (seven), and sent two teams to the women’s Final Four.
• If the Pac-12 had been a country in 2012 (bear with me here) it would have finished fifth in Olympic medal count.