As to the OP, I will just assume it is more McMurphy clickbait.
I really don't think there is going to be any more major news this calendar year. The season is here, the TV deal has been announced, and Notre Dame is the only specifically name school in the deals where they'd get a bump-up. The rest are unnamed and "maybe".
It would seem easy to assume that the Big Ten had all these hypothetical discussions with their TV network partners already, and they could've added any other PAC schools tha they wanted at the same time they added USC/UCLA.
Iowa's AD and President in the Athletic yesterday:
“I feel like when we added the two that we added, it made sense. It had a lot of momentum behind it,” Barta said Thursday. “I’ve not yet heard anything that would get me at Iowa — I’m just speaking for Iowa — excited to say, ‘Let’s continue to expand more.’ So, I don’t feel like it’s a hot button. But that’s one person’s opinion. I won’t speak for the conference.
“Whatever upside Iowa will receive from the new TV contract, I’m certainly not going to be interested in supporting additional expansion, if that means Iowa would get less. That’s just one criteria, but that’s an important one.”
Iowa president Barbara Wilson, who previously served as executive vice president and interim chancellor at the University of Illinois, said the focus right now for the Big Ten’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors is how to acclimate USC and UCLA into the league. The league’s hierarchy met electronically Thursday morning in a previously planned meeting.
“I can’t really say anything about expansion, other than to say we’re really just trying to figure out what we’ve done and how to do this well with the two new schools,” Wilson told The Athletic. “Everybody’s talking about more and more, and I think what we’re focusing on is how do we manage bringing (in) these two partners in the next two years?
“It’s like taking a breath and saying, ‘OK, now, how do we make sure this is a successful expansion?’”
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