This is just history repeating itself and while we reportedly have continued to commit to our affiliation with the PAC12, we need to stay aware of what the ramifications are of what other teams are doing. And we need to be careful about who we’re inviting to the conference.
Once upon a time we were in the WAC. Then we along with other better teams at the time left the WAC to start the MWC. As we know, from there the WAC was continually marginalized until they were gone and the MWC started losing its best teams and is now basically the WAC again. I don’t think the PAC will collapse and go away, but I am worried about more top teams leaving and only being replaced by “great group of five teams” until the PAC becomes the next WAC replacement full of MWC teams.
And regarding our friends down south, the Big12 is leaning in that direction as well by saving themselves for now with a bunch of group of five teams.
Now that the Big12 (supposedly) have a new contract it might be too late, but since both the PAC AND Big12 were expiring at roughly the same time, it would have been the right time for the best teams from both conferences to break away and start a new conference much like with the creation of the MWC to stay ahead it. But of course the liberal northeastern schools would NEVER affiliate themselves with those crazy southern schools (that’s also why there’s ZERO chance of those schools moving to the Big12).
Oklahoma, Texas, USC and UCLA have been proactive in securing their future. We have to make sure that we’re not so committed to the PAC12 the we get left behind.
Utah @ 
Baylor 
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