The four remaining Pac-12 schools still aboard for next season - California, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington State - have options if they are looking for another conference.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is exploring the possibility of adding the West Coast schools, with an emphasis on California and Stanford in the San Francisco Bay Area, a person with knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the ACC was not making its internal discussion public and the conversations were still in early stages.
"The decision-makers who are involed of these calls are working on it," said Cal head coach Justin Wilcox. "But we can control right now is what happens in the practice field, again the answers everyone is looking for, us included, we don't have those yet." The abrupt departures have raised the possibility that the Pac-12, which dates to 1916, will completely dissolve sooner rather than later.
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