[JustAnotherFan]

Network money seems to be the driver for changes in college football conferences. Will there be more money in fewer big conferences for networks to bid on, or independence, handling your own rights?
USC and UCLA were picked for the LA market. The Bay Area is large, but is there a large viewership?
Stanford, and maybe Cal, are top global universities that choose to include athletics as part of a comprehensive and inclusive education. As an independent, they would need to market and stream globally in multiple sports and maybe use NIL to produce and market stories of students and staff.

I just can't imagine the BigTen possibly being content with USC and UCLA on the west coast and no one else, and I have a hard time believing USC or UCLA would, either. I imagine that all parties talked about the expected poaching of other Pac-12 schools as a necessary next step. So in that way I think it was not just the LA market, but the entire west coast. All speculation on my part.

[JustAnotherFan]

Network money seems to be the driver for changes in college football conferences. Will there be more money in fewer big conferences for networks to bid on, or independence, handling your own rights?
USC and UCLA were picked for the LA market. The Bay Area is large, but is there a large viewership?
Stanford, and maybe Cal, are top global universities that choose to include athletics as part of a comprehensive and inclusive education. As an independent, they would need to market and stream globally in multiple sports and maybe use NIL to produce and market stories of students and staff.

I just can't imagine the BigTen possibly being content with USC and UCLA on the west coast and no one else, and I have a hard time believing USC or UCLA would, either. I imagine that all parties talked about the expected poaching of other Pac-12 schools as a necessary next step. So in that way I think it was not just the LA market, but the entire west coast. All speculation on my part.