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Originally Posted by Coach
I don't think the Big 12 is going to take all of the remaining Pac 12 teams. At most, they may try to see a max of 4, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they only took 2. Then pause and look at the landscape.
If you're trying to merge all the Big 12 and the Pac 12, the more mouths they have to feed (re: less cut for all schools involved), the more complex interleague dynamics will be, and the more challenging scheduling will be.
Expansion should only happen if it makes sense on a variety of levels besides just money. The Big 12 may not take everyone… just the ones that make the most sense. They don’t want to become the WAC 2.0 that had 16 teams, but it was too unwieldy, so it crumbled and split in two.
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The remaining Pac 12 teams do not want to join the Big 12. There probably is not a noticeable revenue difference either way in the watered down Big 12 or the "new" Pac 12 so what difference does it make to them. ESPN needs late programming too.