To what UW or Oregon are saying is the plan. Those schools have already tried to leave. how can you trust anything they’re saying now or in the future. They’re not going to sign a long pac GORs to stay together and will be out as soon as a better offer cones along. Nike is already trying to use his influence to get Oregon a Big2 invitation.
The Corner4 schools control more power if they opt to move together. As far as the Big12, there’s Texas recruiting which should be appealing to all of them. Plus basketball and Olympic sports are better, even if they don’t necessarily move the money needle. Football in the Big12 is most recently a much better conference. All those teams, other than Utah, can’t do much worse in football than they’ve done in the PAC lately.