This could not be more wrong, both the Pac 12 and Big 10 will be redoing their TV contracts in 2022/23, there is no rush right now to add teams. Pollard himself said this is going to take time and we must be patient.
Just because conferences are not rushing out to pick off school right now means little to nothing. If we are sitting here in the same boat in 2024 then we are in trouble, but not until then.
Why would the Pac 12 NOT expand, they are last in the money given out to schools in the conference and are struggling with both attendence and TV ratings. By doing nothing, they risk that they will lose their most valuable schools to the Big 10, they have to understand that fact, and they see adding 4 to 6 schools from the old Big 12 not only gets them into the Central time zone for their Pac. 12 network, but also into the Texas and Oklahoma for recruiting. Adding ISU, OSU, KSU or KU and TT would bring in schools that would be in the top fourth to the top half in attendence for their league.
They have to expand or they are going to end up just like the Big 12, and they have to understand that.