If we’re talking about there being a lack of suitors for the Pac 12, what does that mean for the rest of them? It means that there’s still not any suitors for them, either. They still don’t have the distribution that the main conferences have. The expanded playoffs are gonna allow a little more access to some Group of Five teams, but they still don’t have those TV deals. The financial disparity between the Power Five and the Group of Five is just so big … and it’s only gonna grow. On whether the Power Five will break away from the NCAA: It’s kind of already happened. And then what happens to the Mountain West? Do you combine with the Sun Belt? I don’t know the answer to that. That could mean the Mountain West just gives all of their teams to the Pac-12.

If we’re creating pie-in-the-sky scenarios, let’s just say the Pac-12 loses the two Arizona schools or Colorado and Utah, and then Oregon and Washington. On a conference facing termination: I think it’s possible for maybe the Mountain West, although I doubt it. If you’re the SEC, why do you add an average-to-slightly-above-average team program if it doesn’t help you? … If the SEC wants to go get Oregon and Washington, which might be two huge fish, is that even worth it to go across the country and get those two teams? Probably not. For the SEC, I guess it matters a little bit because traditionally, you want Southern football to be Southern football, and partly because there’s nobody else out there worth getting.

I think it does matter to the ACC at least for now, partly because they’re locked into their deal. On whether geography matters to conferences: Obviously, it doesn’t matter to the Big Ten at all. Then you’re gonna see the Pac 12 make some moves the Mountain West probably make some moves. … If the Pac-12 media rights deals fall apart or just aren’t very attractive to some schools that might be willing to leave or want to leave, then the Big 12 might start making some moves. I think that has opened the door for other conferences to go fishing. The Pac-12’s a big-time mess right now, due in large part to Larry Scott, the former commissioner who really sent this whole thing into a spiral 10 years ago. Sallee on impending conference realignment: We’re gonna see a lot of movement since the Pac-12 media rights deal is sort of all over the place - we’ve seen Apple kinda go away, we’ve seen the CW kind of go.

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