Pac 12 may be targeting western AAC schools only?

[cousin oliver]

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The quickest and maybe easiest route in reforming is to acquire the most western schools in the American Athletic Conference, such as SMU, UTSA, North Texas, Rice, Tulane and potentially the Sun Belt’s Texas State. To leave, these schools would owe an exit fee as they are well past the 27-month notice that the AAC requires.

https://sports.yahoo.com/where-do-pac-12s-remaining-4-end-up-after-latest-conference-realignment-shakeup-160519223.html

[DentonLurker]

At this point, it kind of feels like these reporters don't know any more than we do. They're just throwing out random thoughts and hoping one of them will stick so they can say, "see? I told you."

[MrAlien]

I did not know about the residual payouts from the NCAA tournament that the PAC will receive, however their legal troubles and accounting errors may render that null and void.  In fact it might prevent anyone from joining or even merging with them. 

[C Rod]

This belongs in the PAC realignment mega thread. 

[Mike Jackson]

The greed and arrogance involved P5 programs makes this very unlikely.  If we're capable of being pragmatic like this AAC merger suggestion is, they wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.  Either FBS is going to have robust revenue sharing of ALL football media income or it's going to lose market share.