In reply to: So what would happen to Cal and Stanford? Independence? * posted by VaDblDmr
Because I doubt the Big Ten gives a shit about Cal. And I'd guess they don't care about Stanford much unless it gives them leverage to add a power in a revenue-generating sport.
In annual research money into the academic side of the conference as well as opening opportunities for research collaboration.
That's real money.
Realignment. If that were most important, the B1G would have Stanford already.