SPOKANE, Wash. — The Pac-12 struck out on adding schools from the American Conference, on Monday.
Memphis, Tulane, UTSA and South Florida all deciding to stay put.
Many deemed it a failure by the Pac-12.
But the conference is already taking the next steps to become a big player in the college sports landscape once again.
“You look like you asked somebody to the dance and they turned you down publicly in front of the whole school,” Pac-12 Insider John Canzano said.
The Pac-12 is now fighting with the league it decided to tango with to save its future, suing the mountain west over poaching penalties for taking five schools from the conference.
“Any move that we make and the impact of any move we make, my focus is always going to be these programs and these student-athletes,” Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould.
If those fees are thrown out it would save the Pac-12 at least 50 million dollars.
“It would really free them up to go and say to UNLV and some of the incoming members hey we’re able to help you a little bit with your exit fees in the Mountain West,” Canzano said