You know better than most, the Big 12 added both because Fox wanted to destroy the Pac 12. They succeeded. Stanford is arguably the best college in America. That means nothing to tv execs. And Cal means even less.
And that is literally whats killing UConn in all of this. By being in the Big East, Fox is getting UConn for pennies on the dollar. Until they become an actual threat to leave, things will remain static. In the end, school presidents are pawns. They will do whatever the execs tell them to do.