The Ducks are sending a terrible message to the PAC-12

That is absolutely the correct message to send if you are a PAC-12 Athletic Director.

It has been reported locally and nationally that Colorado, Utah and the two Arizona schools have talked with the BIG-12. Oregon and Washington have been talking to the BIG-10. The writers have been all over the defection of USC and UCLA since the day it became news.That indeed has produced some loud noise but nothing has publicly materialized from it to date.

So Barnes is right, until something changes, it is just noise.