(02-11-2018 11:08 PM)JRsec Wrote:  It goes with the territory. The Big East folks, the ACC folks and the Big 12 folks all know this. When speculation over the PAC starts the lowest producers are always going to be the victims of the new scenarios. There's nothing to get. It simply will be what people say.

True, however, to state that the 6 "popular" schools will just abandon Oregon and Oregon State, when they've associated themselves in the same conference for over 90 years (100 for most of them) is just redicilious. Even when the conference imploded in 1959, it only took 5 years before these 8 teams were back playing in the same conference.

I don't see the PAC-12 as that unstable. In fact, I actually saw the push for 16 members as basically a strengthening of that old PAC-8 relationship. The PAC-12, the Big Ten, and the SEC are probably the most stable of conferences. Nobody's going to actually poach the PAC-12 (somewhat because of geography, but also somewhat because of that stability I was talking about earlier).