If they get three more, say, UNLV, Nevada and Hawaii, they get them for free.
The question looms: Would the Pac-12 invite two of them to avoid what amounts to more than $120 million in exit and penalty fees?
“That’s the play, honestly,” says one athletic director with knowledge of the situation.
That would be especially bad news for SJSU, Wyoming and New Mexico who at that point are either joining the American, CUSA or the Big Sky.