https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article277695468.html
According to sources, the Big 12 and commissioner Brett Yormark is now targeting the University of Arizona, which would likely mean an invitation to Arizona State University. The University of Connecticut is another school that has been attached to Big 12 expansion talks, but with the Pac-12 losing members the Big 12’s focus is targeting those universities first.
We're being dangled as bait and it's so obvious. Yormark is telling these schools that if they don't bite, their invite is going to UConn. In reality, they never had any intention of inviting us
As UConn fans, our hope is either of the following scenarios happen:
1. Colorado leaving. The rest of PAC-12 stayed together and either invite SDSU alone or add SDSU, SMU, and Fresno/UNLV.
2. Colorado, Arizona, and ASU leaving while the rest of the PAC-12 stayed together and added the schools in option 1. The pool might expand to include Colorado State, Hawaii, and Boise State.
I hope option 1 happens since it will give UConn the best chance to get into the B12. If option 2 is what happens next, we might be ok since we will be #16.
With option 2, we might also be screwed since every PAC-12 team might be looking for a home including Oregon and Washington. Our only hope is Brett Yormark can sell the vision that we are needed to have the B12 in the EST time zone.
We should all hope scenario 1 is the reality not option 2.
We might be witnessing the death of the PAC-12 like the old Big East. It is a sad day for the PAC schools and college sports, but it's a reality in today's NIL greedy $$$$$$ world.