MINNEAPOLIS — The commissioners for the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC appeared together at a virtual news conference last August to express unity and a spirit of collaboration in announcing a new "Alliance" partnership in the wake of jarring news that Texas and Oklahoma were bolting to the SEC.
The "Alliance" unveiling carried a tone of absolute solidarity.
Said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren that day, "Where we are in college athletics right now, what we really need is for things to be stable."