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<blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 132094355" data-attributes="member: 1812660"><p>They very well could.&nbsp; I'm not saying specific things are inevitable, I'm just saying trends make me believe the PAC 12 is far more likely to lose their better remaining teams to poaching than the Big 12.&nbsp; A PAC 12 down USC, UCLA, and 2 others that is forced to bring in something like Boise, Colorado State, SDSU, and Fresno State is a worse spot to be in than the post UT and OU Big 12.&nbsp; If current teams in the PAC 12 stay put and the PAC 12 is raided, the Big 12 can still invite from what's left.&nbsp; But some teams will be left behind even in that situation and the remenants of the raid will be reduced to a west coast AAC.&nbsp; Hence some PAC 12 teams may want to entertain courting the Big 12 if they are unlikely to get an invite from the Big 10/SEC in the next expansion and are worried about possibly being out maneuvered on jumping to the Big 12 if/when the PAC 12 is raided.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="The Bell Tolls for Thee, post: 132094355, member: 1812660"] They very well could. I'm not saying specific things are inevitable, I'm just saying trends make me believe the PAC 12 is far more likely to lose their better remaining teams to poaching than the Big 12. A PAC 12 down USC, UCLA, and 2 others that is forced to bring in something like Boise, Colorado State, SDSU, and Fresno State is a worse spot to be in than the post UT and OU Big 12. If current teams in the PAC 12 stay put and the PAC 12 is raided, the Big 12 can still invite from what's left. But some teams will be left behind even in that situation and the remenants of the raid will be reduced to a west coast AAC. Hence some PAC 12 teams may want to entertain courting the Big 12 if they are unlikely to get an invite from the Big 10/SEC in the next expansion and are worried about possibly being out maneuvered on jumping to the Big 12 if/when the PAC 12 is raided. [/QUOTE]

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