With the departure of Cal and Stanford to the ACC last week, the Washington State Cougars and Oregon State Beavers now truly have control over what happens to them in this insane realignment saga. They are, officially, the last schools standing in the Pac-12 Conference.
Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez spent the weekend at games involving schools that are currently members playing ones she hopes to have in the near future. While jumping into Mountain West either directly or via reverse merger is certainly the safest move, it brings with it a mess of questions lawyers are racking up billable hours trying to answer.