Eli Drinkwitz just couldn’t let the moment pass Saturday without sounding off on conference realignment.

“All right, I’m gonna say it. I thought the transfer window — I thought the portal was closed,” Drinkwitz said. “‘Oh, that’s just for the student athletes. The adults in the room get to do whatever they want, apparently.”

The Big 12 is adding Arizona, Arizona State and Utah as members next year, completing its raid of the Pac-12. The latest blow to the Pac-12 came just hours after the Big Ten welcomed Oregon and Washington to grow its new West Coast wing next year.

“My question is: Did we count the cost?” Drinkwitz asked. “I’m not talking about the financial cost. I’m talking about: Did we count the cost for the student-athletes involved in this decision? What cost is it to those student-athletes?

“We’re talking about a football decision, based on football, but what about softball and baseball, who have to travel across (the) country? Did we ask about the cost to them? “Do we know what the number one indicator or symptom of or cause of mental health (problems) is? It’s lack of rest and sleep.

“Traveling in those baseball (and) softball games, those people, they travel commercial. They get done playing … they gotta go to the airport. They come back, it’s 3 or 4 in the morning, they gotta go to class. I mean, did we ask any of them?”

A little more than a year ago, Southern California and UCLA announced they were joining the Big Ten in 2024. With the Ducks and Huskies, too, the Big Ten will be an 18-team conference. The additions of the Arizona schools and Utah give the Big 12 16 schools, stretching from Florida to Arizona.

The Big Ten will be the largest conference in major college sports, spanning 15 states from New Jersey to Washington.

Pac-12 leaders met early Friday to determine if its remaining schools would accept the potential media rights deal with Apple that Commissioner George Kliavkoff presented this week.

Two people with knowledge of the discussion between the Big Ten and Oregon said the Ducks were leaning toward staying in the Pac-12 late Thursday, boosting the possibility that others would stay put, too.

Instead, Oregon officials notified the Pac-12 early Friday they were still uncomfortable with the Apple deal and the school would be re-engaging with the Big Ten.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.