[pokey]

Perhaps the Big10 will take on the other two, expand to 20 teams, then carve out half to form the Big10 Pacific conference.  We'll all be one happy family again and the Rose Bowl will be the conference champ game.

The Big Ten will scare Cal and Stanford into taking less to join and get them cheap because they know they have no other realistic option if the Pac doesn't have Washington and Oregon.

 You think it is scary being Stanford now? Try Oregon State and Washington State.

Given the alternative (staying in a Mountain West-like shell of a conference), starting at x% and escalating towards a full share sounds good to me.  All four schools have little leverage.  Play the long game.

[pokey]

Perhaps the Big10 will take on the other two, expand to 20 teams, then carve out half to form the Big10 Pacific conference.  We'll all be one happy family again and the Rose Bowl will be the conference champ game.

The Big Ten will scare Cal and Stanford into taking less to join and get them cheap because they know they have no other realistic option if the Pac doesn't have Washington and Oregon.

 You think it is scary being Stanford now? Try Oregon State and Washington State.

Given the alternative (staying in a Mountain West-like shell of a conference), starting at x% and escalating towards a full share sounds good to me.  All four schools have little leverage.  Play the long game.