Two fixable issues for the Pac-12 would be the start times and streaming platforms:
Start Times
If the Pac-12 will not budge on start times, then why bother expanding to the Mountain Time Zone with Utah & CU in the first place? I have told other P12 fans that the conference should use CU and Utah to their benefit when it comes to start times which hasn't happened. I have no problems with early 10AM-noon starts...who cares about those 9AM starts for the other Pac-12 teams on the left coast? We can be known for breakfast tailgating especially breakfast burritos...Conference of Champions and Breakfast of Champions.
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Also I'm sure I'm not the only CU fan who prefers to watch day games at Folsom Field than night games at Folsom Field.
Instead of moving to the B1G, it's time to reconsider OU, OSU, UT, and TT to the PAC. Remember those rumors of the AZ schools wanting to go to the Big 12? It's possible one of the AZ schools was floating that idea to see how the AZ schools would respond to being placed in a division with the TX and OK schools. From talking with Ute fans on Pac12Board, it sounds like they would be open to playing those four Big 12 schools as well. I believe that both AZ schools and Utah are more natural rivalries for CU so we would still have a lot to gain. The B1G will take Kansas one way or the other...heck they might as well take Iowa State as well. The Mountain schools (UA, ASU, CU, UU) would play the California schools only on a rotating basis while the TX/OK schools would play the NW schools in that same light unless we increase the number of conference games and I believe 11 would be the best number in that case.
The real treat of that expansion would be in basketball.
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We would still be able to play all the left coast schools in basketball and other sports.
Given that we would not be playing the NW schools in football (until the 11 game conference schedule is realized), the Pac-12 could have bowl games in like Las Vegas. The same for California vs Texas schools. How that works out will remain to be seen.
Streaming Platforms
Larry Scott needs to get his stuff together or get fired. Dan Beebe looks like a better commissioner at this point.
What I am proposing might be a no brainer. Some Pac-12 schools live and die by their Olympic sports. What I am proposing is this:
Pac-12 schools can have their own third tier deals for their Olympic sports...that way Pac-12 schools can recoup costs for running those non-revenue sports. Football, maybe volleyball, basketball, and baseball would be equal revenue sharing on the Pac-12 Network. I think the Pac-12 is stuck with the structure of the media rights deal signed back in 2011 that we'll have to wait until the next media rights deal to have it more to our liking. And Texas would be able to keep the Longhorn Network as well.