  We discuss how orbital degeneracy, which is usually removed by a cooperative
Jahn-Teller distortion, could under appropriate circumstances lead rather to a
Resonating Valence Bond spin-orbital liquid. The key points are: i) The
tendency to form spin-orbital dimers, a tendency already identified in several
cases; ii) The mapping onto Quantum Dimer Models, which have been shown to
possess Resonating Valence Bond phases on the triangular lattice. How this
program can be implemented is explained in some details starting from a
microscopic model of LiNiO$_2$.
