A very interesting story broke on Monday. Eric Prisbell of On3 Sports talked to sources who told him the AAC is interested in adding the Pac-4 schools: Stanford, Cal, Oregon State, and Washington State.
Prisbell said his sources have “direct knowledge of the league’s strategy.”
No one should think the AAC is likely to land these schools. Then again, it never seemed likely the Pac-12 would die until just a few weeks ago. Things don’t seem likely for many months, and then they happen anyway.
The likelihood or probability of an AAC raid of the Pac-4 is something a lot of people will focus on, and reasonably so. However, even if the AAC doesn’t actually grab these schools, there is still value and importance in the act of merely attempting to bring them aboard. We’re going to take you through that thought process and strategy below, as the realignment wheel keeps spinning and we wait to see where the Pac-4 schools will ultimately land: