How about this - do nothing. There are too many schools in the B1G now. Why do people want a conference with teams on the other side of the world?
people don't get what this is, and has been, really about.
the corptocracy doesn't care squat what's best for college sports.
and contrary to the false propaganda spewed since this all started, this isn't and never has been about "expansion".
it's always been about "consolidation".
the plan of Delany/B10, the PAC, and The SEC, was always the elimination of the B12 and ACC as competitive entities for broadcast/streaming rights.
the hope was that this could be accomplished when the B10 took Neb, UMd, and RU, hoping UMd would be the first ACC domino to fall and bring hopefully UNC and UVa with them, and taking RU to keep RU from going to the ACC to help shore them up.
the SEC took Mizzou and TAM, and the hope was that the PAC would get UT and OU.
UNC and UVa didn't bolt, and the ACC tried to shore up it's defense of a hostile takeover by adding Cuse, UL, and Pitt, which the ACC never really wanted, and don't do much for the ACC other than shore up their numbers.
the B12 managed to hold on as well, perhaps due to UT and OU holding out for the SEC rather than the PAC, and to a lessor degree perhaps the Longhorn Network thing.
so while the consolidation thing failed short term, it did effectively take out the Big East as a semi major football conference through collateral damage.
as to who, if anyone, should the B10 take, if the B12 falls absent the B10 taking any B12 teams, what's in it for the B10 to take any remaining B12 team, as none of them are a financial plus for the B10 if the B12 falls from being a major fball conference anyway.
the B10 might think it better to wait and make another play for 2 of UNC, UVa, FSU, and ND, down the rd, and partner with the SEC in another run at taking out the ACC.
as to how does any of this make college sports better?? it doesn't.
it makes it much worse.
but this isn't being done in the name of college sports.
this is M&A for consolidation of wealth and power 101, and no one at any school or conference has the authority to over ride the capitalism algorithm runaway train, once it gets set in motion.
as for the non OU/UT B12 schools, Ayn Rand says too bad for you.
as for how the non OU/UT schools can try to fight it, i'd start counting my US senators and threatening looking at the FTC's and FCC's total and complete lack of media/big telecom collusive anti competitive oversight, and specifically ala carte access and media consolidation, as therein lies what's the driving force behind all this..
as for how the SEC/B10/PAC would counter that strategy, they'll count US senators too, and determine how many, and what schools, they don't really want but will take anyway, to counter the counter.