Concurred. Nobody would consider them a power conference, even with these additions. The next round of their already paltry media rights will coincide with what the other conferences make outside of the B1G and SEC. Wazzu and OSU are simply trying to mitigate the financial loss as much as possible because once their current media rights are over, they're toast. Especially when they'll have to pay players directly from their own accounts to try and keep up.
What other options do they have in all honesty.