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<blockquote data-quote="xWVU2010x" data-source="post: 132476955" data-attributes="member: 1467482">IMO adding Colorado had more to do with optics than anything. You take Colorado and then Oregon and Washington are rumored to be Big Ten bound and suddenly everyone in the PAC is clamoring for a Big 12 invite rather than vice versa.I’ll give the Big 12 credit as they really had no business jumping the PAC in the pecking order, the PAC isn’t the one loaded up with a bunch of former MWC, AAC, Big East schools to stay afloat following 6 defections over the past 20 or so years, and had never been raided prior to the USC/UCLA situation. Yet somehow the Big 12 is in the power position to offer a life raft, and I expect they will be in the same power position against the ACC once Clemson and FSU make their inevitable move. Brilliant executive maneuvering in combination of boxing Fox/ESPN against each other rather than just kissing ESPN’s ring, being proactive rather than reactive with adding the 4 best G5s and then in turn reclaiming Colorado to turn the media narrative into the PAC collapsing rather than the Big 12 is collapsing. That said, we are only as stable as the SEC and B1G allow and nothing is really going to change that reality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="xWVU2010x, post: 132476955, member: 1467482"] IMO adding Colorado had more to do with optics than anything. You take Colorado and then Oregon and Washington are rumored to be Big Ten bound and suddenly everyone in the PAC is clamoring for a Big 12 invite rather than vice versa. I’ll give the Big 12 credit as they really had no business jumping the PAC in the pecking order, the PAC isn’t the one loaded up with a bunch of former MWC, AAC, Big East schools to stay afloat following 6 defections over the past 20 or so years, and had never been raided prior to the USC/UCLA situation. Yet somehow the Big 12 is in the power position to offer a life raft, and I expect they will be in the same power position against the ACC once Clemson and FSU make their inevitable move. Brilliant executive maneuvering in combination of boxing Fox/ESPN against each other rather than just kissing ESPN’s ring, being proactive rather than reactive with adding the 4 best G5s and then in turn reclaiming Colorado to turn the media narrative into the PAC collapsing rather than the Big 12 is collapsing. That said, we are only as stable as the SEC and B1G allow and nothing is really going to change that reality. [/QUOTE]

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