The Jon Wefold proposal has generated much chat about the PAC12 & Big12 eventunally assimmulating in some fashion. There's going to be rumors when anything is advanced that suggests networking, inclusive of any advocacy for cooperative scheduling. Some are implying the perceived best of the PAC12, and the perceived best of the B12, will form a new conference.

The problem with identifying and predicting SEC member additions, is that indicators for change to come, have not come into focus yet. It is long obvious that OU, UT, and KU, present the best value. That may apply to multiple suitors.

Slive would have had a plan A and a plan B. We assume Sankey and staff have one also. That would take off-the-record collaboration even though a window of opportunity is a short few years away.

SEC has to be, in a confidential way, dialoguing with some degree of seriousness with OU and/or UT. Kansas and maybe one or two others, are engaged in informal contact.

I do believe ESPN in particular, along with other broadcast companies, have somewhat certain designs they want to push. They may differ as well.

There is going to be some kind of suprise, somewhere.

Right now, the PAC12 is showing a weakening of financial leverage, while the B12 continues to be perceived as vulnerable for near future expansion. Shall the two meet in a bold attempt to resolve both matters? Perhaps, if the SEC and/or the BIG just sit back. But that looks unlikely.

OU may hold more cards in this than Texas.