There are a number of positives for ASU. I am a little surprised at the AAU invitation as ASU is not an academic powerhouse. Phoenix metro is 5M people. A lot of Midwest retirees. They have money. I'm sure having an academic conference in Phoenix would be appealing to the Ivory Tower folks. It's growing but how serious is the water problem??
Washington/Seattle is much more of an academic fit with 4M metro population.
I don't see it but I didn't think ASU was in line for AAU either. ND always #1 - after that I'm sure the ACC contingent but those additions seem to be in the distant future. Oregon has a large viewership market - small population. How much does the B1G think that joining would help the viewership numbers of someone like ASU? They did get 2.3M and 2.71M vs. MSU in 2018/19 but overall ASU is not at the top for viewership - they are the Illinois of the Pac -
It would be nice to play ASU the last game of the season instead of Northwestern
I still have Washington as the likely next addition + ???.