Conference realignment: CFB insider predicts $4 million in extra revenue for each team joining Pac-12 or MWC

College football insider Jim Williams doesn't think the clash between the Pac-12 and Mountain West Conference will end well. The Pac-12 and MWC are looking to add schools to become major conferences.

The Pac-12 has added five schools from the MWC, while the Mountain West has been trying to land schools from other conferences. As the conferences are rebuilding, Williams doesn't think either conference will land any major revenue deals.

"To those who have asked in my role as a media consultant, the battle between @MountainWest & @pac12 is likely to hurt both sides, and both will be lucky to get $4 million per team per conference. I wish it could be fixed, but, for now, it's a mess," Williams reported.

The Pac-12 struggled to get a new media rights deal, which caused several schools to leave last year, decimating the conference.

However, despite the Pac-12 adding five new schools, Williams still doesn't think either conference will land any significant media rights deal.

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Pac-12 suing Mountain West over poaching fee

After the Pac-12 got Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Utah State from the Mountain West, the MWC filed a poaching penalty against the Pac-12.

"The Pac-12 Conference is challenging a contractual provision that it expressly agreed to and acknowledged was essential to the Mountain West Conference's willingness to enter into a scheduling agreement, all while advised by sophisticated legal counsel. The provision was put in place to protect the Mountain West Conference from this exact scenario," MWC commissioner Gloria Nevarez said, via Bleacher Report.

"The Pac-12 has taken advantage of our willingness to help them and enter into a scheduling agreement with full acknowledgment and legal understanding of their obligations. Now that they have carried out their plan to recruit certain Mountain West schools, they want to walk back what they legally agreed to."

Although the Mountain West Conference filed a poaching penalty, the Pac-12 plans on fighting it.

The Pac-12 filed a legal complaint on Tuesday over the poaching penalty, as the Mountain West believes it's owed millions of dollars for the acquisition of five MWC schools.

The suit, though, isn't related to the Mountain West exit fees of more than $17 million per school.

“There is no legitimate justification for the ‘poaching penalty,’” the complaint says, via Yahoo.

“In fact, the MWC already seeks to impose tens of millions of dollars in ‘exit fees’ on MWC schools that depart from the conference. To the extent the MWC would suffer any harm from the departures of its member schools, these exit fees provide more than sufficient compensation to the MWC.”

According to Yahoo, the poaching penalty is $10 million for each school acquired from the Mountain West, and with each new addition, it goes up $1 million.

The complaint was made at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.