[needle]

As I understand it, until very recently few seemed to consider Washington/Oregon to the Big12 as a realistic possibility.

But if it really is $20M per school, it would be hard for any school to walk away from $10M annually (roughly the difference between the Big12 payout and the PAC payout). Would the networks reopen negotiations with the Big 12 if Washington/Oregon are in play? I really think so. But would the B1G passively allow UW and Oregon to switch conferences without making any effort to sign them up? That is what really isn’t known.

None of this is good news for Stanford.

[needle]

As I understand it, until very recently few seemed to consider Washington/Oregon to the Big12 as a realistic possibility.

But if it really is $20M per school, it would be hard for any school to walk away from $10M annually (roughly the difference between the Big12 payout and the PAC payout). Would the networks reopen negotiations with the Big 12 if Washington/Oregon are in play? I really think so. But would the B1G passively allow UW and Oregon to switch conferences without making any effort to sign them up? That is what really isn’t known.

None of this is good news for Stanford.