It will be strategic, it will add additional value to our conference and it will provide a platform to have our student-athletes to be put on a larger platform so they can build their careers.' 'It may include future expansion, but it will be done for the right reasons, at the right time, with our students' academic and athletic empowerment at the center. He continued: 'I get asked every day, 'What's next?',' Warren said. 'I'm embracing change, I'm going to be very aggressive, I've been that way my entire career and I just want to make sure we build an environment because our student-athletes, fans and universities deserve that.'

We don't have to do anything just out of panic or desperation.' 'The schools remaining are united and we're going to be strong moving forward. 'We're on solid footing, got a solid plan moving forward,' Anderson said. Scheer's comments are in stark contrast to Anderson's, who recently told the Arizona Republic's Michelle Gardner that 'everything out there has been overblown and exaggerated and lacking any credibility' in conference realignment speculation for the Pac-12. More: Are Pac-12 schools ASU, Arizona a package deal in college conference realignment? I absolutely think it’s a thought process, and it has fractured the conference.” “Then there are schools like Arizona that feel like there’s benefits to the Big 12 as well. They think they’re better than the Big 12, that staying together in the Pac-10 or whatever it may be, with the academics and all that, they can make an argument that they’re better than the Big 12. Schools like Washington, Oregon, Colorado appears to be one of them. 'The Pac-12 could’ve expanded years ago and basically decided it didn’t need to. 'That’s why the Pac-12 is here in the first place,' 247Sports' Jason Scheer told 365 Sports this week. Earlier this month, Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson told The Arizona Republic that the remaining 10 teams in the Pac-12 conference were 'united' after USC and UCLA's decision to leave for the Big Ten.Īn Arizona Wildcats athletics insider painted a very different picture of the conference in a recent interview, calling the conference 'fractured' by conference realignment talk.

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