"(Commissioner George) Kliavkoff’s job got a little more difficult today," Canzano wrote. "He not only needs to out-maneuver the Big 12 for a deal with ESPN, his Big Ten worries aren’t going away, either. Kliavkoff knows that the Big Ten would love to someday add Washington, Oregon, Stanford and Cal for a potential 'west' division that would ease the travel concerns for USC and UCLA. Lose two teams, and you pull yourself together and scrape by. Lose six? You’re cooked.
"It’s why Kliavkoff has to be at his absolute best in the next few months. He’ll need to hold together his membership — particularly Oregon — while simultaneously negotiating the conference’s media rights deal. He’ll have to beat out the Big 12, hold off the Big Ten, make ESPN happy, find a streaming option, decide if adding San Diego State (or others) makes sense, and land a distribution number that doesn’t leave the door open for further raiding."
Disagree with the premise that B10 wants Oregon/UW/Stanford/Kal.