@MakeItRain what do you think of the Pac 12 chances of long term survival? They appear to be in a precarious spot themselves if the Big 10 were to take their top few schools.
It's decent. I think they should go exclusive with Fox with their next deal so Fox can help them with distribution of their network, right now there's no motivation for FOX to help with that. If the alliance holds and the Big 10 doesn't come for them, they'll be fine. They get high profile games in the central & eastern time zone, and more importantly those teams have to go out west to play. If the alliance is a real thing, which nothing is on paper, not even a press release, so that means it isn't, then they're the big winners here.
Since the alliance isn't actually a real thing, they're exactly where the Big 12 was in 2010. They should expand, just like the Big 12 should have, will they, clearly not.