1. I realize that there's a sucker born every minute, but gotdam with the posting mhver3 bullcrap. He's the Weekly World News of realignment, just a wanker posting complete fiction. He reads a lot and guesses, but clearly has zero actual sources. A long history of trolling. Swaim is the same.
2. Interesting possibly quandary for the ACC. Perhaps their best way to more money would be to skim 4 to 6 of the best teams in the Pac and B12. ESPN, I mean the ACC (wink wink, say no more) might want to nab Wash, Oregon, Stanford, ASU, and maybe the best two Texas school (probably TCU and Baylor or UH). A mix of brands, markets, and the importance of local/in-state rate increases for the ACCNet. This is probably the B12's biggest threat now.
But for ACC schools thinking/hoping to leave early if the B1G or SEC calls, adding any school raises the number of votes required to disband the conference from the current 8, making it a higher hurdle. Meanwhile, the ACC schools most at risk of being left behind don't want to add schools that might later try to vote to dissolve, because in the case of a B1G/SEC raid you still might have a few schools that could also vote to disband if they had offers from a B12 that looked to be the better surviving 3rd conference. Thus any $$$ increase from expansion would bring increased risks for many schools' long term/survival plans. So I could see them ultimately wanting to stand pat.
3. I'm not ready to write off the Pac just yet, though. If there's anything to this NBC shoulder talk, couldn't ND and NBC partner with the Pac instead of the B12? That said, I think ND wants a game in Texas nearly every year. Perhaps at Reliant, Jerryworld, and the Alamodome. Or could be just negotiating psyops by ND and/or the B12.
4. Hard to see much $$$ value for the B12 from adding the 4 corners schools, but that would come over time from reduced competition by eliminating the Pac, so knocking down the initial dominoes is important. And all 4 schools could do 8:30pm mountain time starts (along with BYU).
For a view from the Pac's perspective, here's last night's latest from an Oregon based writer:
https://www.johncanzano.com/p/canzano-pac-12-big-12-doesnt-fit