(01-28-2018 03:34 PM)clpp01 Wrote:  Washington and the California schools would never go to the Big-12, there are too many poor academic schools within the Big-12 for that to ever be a viable option for the people that run those universities. If and/or when things ever got so bad to the point where Cal schools were actively looking to leave, the only conference that is powerful and prestigious enough to entice UW and the Cal 4 to make the jump would be the Big Ten.

The only way the Big-12 would be able to start expanding with schools from the Pac-12 is if the B1G had already breached the conference and left behind anyone the Big-12 would want to add.

If you were to take Washington and the Cali schools out of the PAC, the remainder wouldn't look all that different from the Big 12 academically speaking.