More info from another article on the subject of Oregon trying to exit:
https://247sports.com/Article/Orego...-for-Ducks-amid-Pac-12-uncertainty-190416244/
Earlier this month, Canzano reported that Knight wants Oregon to move to either the Big Ten or the SEC.
“I had a well-placed source tell me that he didn’t think Phil Knight donated all those millions over the years for UO to get left in the college football minor leagues,”
Canzano wrote. “I wrote recently about Knight’s role in this process. I believe he wants Oregon to matter and will do whatever it takes to help position the Ducks for success.”
College football insider Bruce Feldman explained this month why it doesn’t make sense for the Ducks to remain in the Pac-12 without USC or UCLA. Oregon was an original member of what was then the Pacific Coast Conference at its founding in 1915.
“Oregon is probably, in a lot of ways, a wild card because of Phil Knight, for one. They’ve had a lot of success, and they’ve elevated their brand,” Feldman said on The Rich Eisen Show. “Right now, they’re in a league that feels like, I don’t want to say it’s fallen apart into nonexistence, but it is on such shaky ground. It is so diminished from where it was (last week). It’s not sensible for them to stay if they have other choices.”
According to Pac-12 insider Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News, a source would be, “stunned,” if Oregon or Washington went to the Big Ten as it stands. Wilner stated the growing reality is that the two schools will have to make things work in the Pac-12 or leave and join the Big 12.
