But it probably fits better in this one. The Pac12 is in a tough spot geographically for expansion...

It always has been. If you look at a map of the U.S. that highlights all of the colleges in the U.S. you can see that there are very few schools at all within reasonable geographic proximity to the west coast. Now of course geography is not quite as important as it once was now that everyone charters for football and basketball but it becomes more of an issue with the non revenue sports and the pac12 is a long, long way away from almost all other current P5 schools.

The pac12 has very few expansion options, in fact when you consider what they settled for last time, a terrible Colorado athletic program and an extremely mediocre Utah athletic program, it becomes very apparent how limited their options were/are. Their only real hope of landing half decent programs in an expansion would be to get some Big12 schools to join and even then there are only a couple of them that are truly worth the distance between members it would create. They simply do not have many options, at least not ones that fill their stated "standards". You can list who the "major" schools in their footprint are and they are all MWC schools plus BYU, schools the pac12 has always held their noses up at.

I personally think the pac12 is the conference in the worst shape when it comes to expansion moving forward, they have the worst tv deal, and lowest revenue, of all the p5 conferences, they are geographically isolated, and they want to limit themselves to a certain "type" of school, of which there really are very few anywhere near them.