(01-26-2023 11:41 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  I think people are VASTLY underrating how much the Pac-12 schools (outside of maybe Arizona) don't want anything to do with the Big 12, so while a lot of us here can say, "They'll get paid the same or more money in the Big 12, so it's no big deal to move if there are future defections," the reality is that the institutional snobbery combined with sheer pride (e.g. Colorado having to stoop to rejoining the Big 12 that it left or Utah having to ask to join BYU's conference) within the Pac-12 is massive (and once again I'm not talking about Stanford and Cal, but Colorado and Utah and even Arizona State trying to change its image to be more academically-oriented).

I believe it. Also that even with the sinking ship as it appears, if PAC thought very lowly of many of the B12 schools, even someone like Iowa State, no much if anything may have changed regarding that snobbery.

Only the PAC knows who it received applications from after the Texas-OU SEC announcement. I suspect they may have received apps from many, and maybe all of the remainders. That nothing was done, with B12 hurting, THEN after USC-UCLA bolted? There are problems in that conference out there.