Is An Alliance in the Big XII Future?

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Could an alliance with other conferences be the answer to expansion? There is this comment from Bob Bowlsby about such an alliance to the Austin Statesman on Friday.

"We've had conversations with three other leagues," Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told the American-Statesman on Friday afternoon. "The ACC is one of them. It's a process of discovery that would provide some of the benefits of larger membership without actually adding members."
Bowlsby declined to name the other two leagues, but the Pac-12 Conference is presumed to be one of them because that 12-team league is landlocked with the Big 12 to its east, which makes Pac-12 expansion with like major-college institutions more geographically prohibitive

I am not sure what to make of this other than it might be about a brewing war between ESPN and Fox Sports? What are your thoughts. Help me with the pros and cons?