[GoodGrief]

Holy crap, I just came across this article. Last year, USC's president Carol Folt shut down the discussion of acquiring Big-12 teams while possibly knowing and hinting to USC's football coach that they might leave the Pac-12. 



https://www.si.com/college/stanford/foot...to-big-ten

USC president Carol Folt, who was not fond of the idea of adding teams and according to the LA Times' sources halted the talks. This led to the conference deciding to move on from the idea and not poach any Big 12 schools. A move that is now being interpreted as sabotage of the Pac-12, due to the fact USC is departing from the conference, and the same conference they could have poached from (The Big 12) is now in position to do the same to them.

Folt chose to not address the accusations, but USC's new coach Lincoln Riley did hint that he knew USC might have their sights set elsewhere at Pac-12 Media Day saying:

I had a little bit of a heads up with it,” Riley said. “We had conversations when I took the job, not specifically about the Big Ten, not about an imminent move, but we knew we were going to have to monitor the landscape of what’s going on. You have to be on the forefront, and so I’m glad our people were progressive enough to seize what I think is going to be a great opportunity. I certainly understand the reasons behind it and fully support it."

[GoodGrief]

Holy crap, I just came across this article. Last year, USC's president Carol Folt shut down the discussion of acquiring Big-12 teams while possibly knowing and hinting to USC's football coach that they might leave the Pac-12. 



https://www.si.com/college/stanford/foot...to-big-ten

USC president Carol Folt, who was not fond of the idea of adding teams and according to the LA Times' sources halted the talks. This led to the conference deciding to move on from the idea and not poach any Big 12 schools. A move that is now being interpreted as sabotage of the Pac-12, due to the fact USC is departing from the conference, and the same conference they could have poached from (The Big 12) is now in position to do the same to them.

Folt chose to not address the accusations, but USC's new coach Lincoln Riley did hint that he knew USC might have their sights set elsewhere at Pac-12 Media Day saying:

I had a little bit of a heads up with it,” Riley said. “We had conversations when I took the job, not specifically about the Big Ten, not about an imminent move, but we knew we were going to have to monitor the landscape of what’s going on. You have to be on the forefront, and so I’m glad our people were progressive enough to seize what I think is going to be a great opportunity. I certainly understand the reasons behind it and fully support it."