(06-05-2021 06:57 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Pac 12 perspective from San Jose Mercury News Hotline Mailbag: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/04/h...ntraction/

Jon Wilner covers the Pac-12 Conference as well as anyone on the west coast. Pac-12 expansion will never happen without Texas. OU by themselves does not make sense, for either OU or the Pac-12.

Wilner: "To make expansion worthwhile, the additions must create more media-related revenue for the continuing members than they would receive otherwise. It’s not about increasing the size of the pie; it’s about increasing the size of the slices.
Based on recent media rights deals in other leagues and sports, we already know the Pac-12’s next contract cycle will assuredly increase the size of the pie and the individual slices.
Would a San Diego State, UNLV or Boise State bring the value necessary to make the revenue slices even larger than they would be without them? We’re skeptical. Deeply skeptical.
There are only two schools that make expansion worthwhile financially: Texas and Oklahoma."

As Wedge noted in a earlier post, the only two teams out there that move the needle for the Pac-12 would be OU or UT.