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Apparently, the Big Ten presidents just met and unanimously approved the applications.
Remaining AAU schools in Pac Twelve: California, Stanford, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Arizona.
For now, figure the ACC's media rights/exit fees prevent movement from that quarter. Notre Dame is included in the media rights discussion, and that's set through 2036. No sense talking about SEC schools leaving - they will get more per year than Big Ten schools.
That leaves Kansas as the only other AAU school with a major athletics program (Buffalo, Rice and Tulane don't seem interested in that type of growth). Iowa State was essentially booted from the AAU this year, not that it made sense for the Big Ten anyway.
If sources are saying the B16 Ten isn't done yet, and I have to think UCLA and USC wouldn't have done this otherwise, they have some great targets there.
Then, does the Big 12 make a move, or does the Pac Twelve try to expand? Just a couple of weeks ago, the Pac Twelve's new commissioner was saying he thought losing a school was impossible. The Big 12 has a new commissioner on the way. Do they end up merging? Forming something new, pulling a Mountain West (when the old WAC reached 16 schools, it imploded, and the top eight formed the Mountain West). If they thin out too much, inviting schools that don't really fit the Pac Twelve framework like Boise State or San Diego State, does that work at all?
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